Something in the Way - History #nirvana #nirvanaband

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It is one of the darkest and most mysterious songs in their entire discography, it is the last from the one thousand nine hundred ninety-one album Nevermind, where producer Butch Vig aimed for the band to play outside their comfort zone. This was one of the few songs with a slow tempo that Cobain ended up performing alone with an acoustic guitar that was rarely in tune.

For a long time it was believed that the lyrics of the song spoke about the life of the singer who, as a teenager, lived on the streets of Aberdeen in Washington after being kicked out of his home, and who survived by sleeping and fishing under the street bridge. Young.

However, it was not until 2001 that Cobain's biography, Heavier than Heaven by writer Charles Cross, confirmed that during the four months that Cobain lived on the streets, he slept in various places such as cardboard boxes, hallways of buildings abandoned, waiting rooms in town hospitals, etc. And that he wrote the lyrics imagining what it would feel like to be a person who lives under the bridge and is slowly dying of an illness, since that was a kind of fantasy that the singer had.

The song gained quite a bit of popularity after two thousand twenty when it was used in the trailer for the film The Batman performed by Robert Pattinson, where it was placed at number two on the United States rock digital song sales chart.