Amen

Track 14 on Pieces of You (25th Anniversary Edition)

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Feb. 28, 19951 viewer

Amen Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You're mother's child
But night lays you down
Hair aflame, wild look in your eyes
Naked belly to the ground
A forest fire
Nibbles at your veins
Crawls up your arm, runs away with your mind
And burns dry thoughts like leaves
Amen

[Verse 2]
Eyes stare up
But something's in the way
In the Bible, only angels have wings
And the rest must wait to be saved
A dry tongue
Screams at the sky
But the wind just breathes words in
As a strange bird tries to fly
Amen

[Verse 3]
Pieces of us die everyday
As though our flesh were hell
Such an injustice, as children we are told
That from God we fell
Where are my angels?
Where's my golden one?
And where is my hope now that my heroes have gone?
Some are being beaten, some are being born
And some can't tell the difference anymore
Amen

[Outro]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

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After Kurt Cobain died, I went to this little hotel on a pier in San Diego and I just remember shutting myself in. The mood in the culture was so palpable that I actually get chills right now talking about it. What Kurt and Nirvana did for culture, I think was heroic. It was so honest—unflinchingly honest. And his loss was experienced in this very profound way. The amount of pain you could feel in the world, that I felt in the world, was so, so real. All I ever did was travel in barrooms and honky-tonk joints. And as I started seeing a little more of the world, people were in a lot of pain. I wrote it as an homage to him. I actually was just literally imagining what he looked like, what junkies look like high, staring up at the sky.

–via Apple Music (November, 2020)

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