Nirvana: All Apologies Meaning

Song Released: 1993

All Apologies Lyrics

What else should I be
All apologies
What else could I say
Everyone is gay
What else could I write
I don't have the RIGHT
What else should I be
All apologies

In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 5th 2013 !⃝

   This is my way of interpreting this song:
   
   The first verse is a statement of no longer seeing future in his band, lucking inspiration and not being able to get satisfied by writing music anymore.
   
   I think the sun is refering to happiness, maybe he wants to say that getting married and having a family was the only light in his life.
   
   The second verse is about all his negative feelings. "I wish I was like you easily amused" this lyric is refering to his depression and how it was wearing him down in an extent of wanting to be like everyone else around, happy. "Everything is my fault, I'll take all the blame" he is making clear (to courtney and frances probably, or to everyone) that it's nobody's fault that he is so sad and can't enjoy his life, cause it all comes from within his own mind.
   
   all in all is all we are, i can't get this one.
2. anonymous

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   Jan 3rd 2013 !⃝

   I've made poetry many times and it came out like this. Just random stuff that didn't make any logical sense, but was very easy to do. What it was was just random feelings comming out intuitively. It could be that he just made a bunch of stuff up like that to make the deadline. It is possible that it didn't mean much. Or, it could have been him just sharing random stuff. But, I've seen interviews with him saying lots of it meant nothing. I hate that. I want it to mean something, but it is what it is. We'll never know for sure. He was hard to get to know.
3. anonymous

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   Dec 30th 2012 !⃝

   Its a quite sad song and when I myself listen to it i really can relate to it because some people came to the point that they think all the things they are doing good or bad are wrong, i guess at that time Kurdt flet like that,he was sorry that he is doing wrong but he knows he cant do anything about it,he is overwhelmed and wants to be anyone else but Kurt cobain
   it can be about anything. Kurt made this song somehow that some of the people can relate to it and think about it as they like
   in his case i guess he was sorry that he wanted to leave Courtney and Frances but he didnt know which is better, leaving or staying cuz in his mind he thought if he staus with them he would somehow ruin their life
   And kurts songs did not always have true meanings,he never wanted his lyrics be analysed,but yet he had deeper meanings in some songs
   and some were just for you to figure out the meaning you like
4. anonymous

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   Dec 30th 2012 !⃝

   Its a quite sad song and when I myself listen to it i really can relate to it because some people came to the point that they think all the things they are doing good or bad are wrong, i guess at that time Kurdt flet like that,he was sorry that he is doing wrong but he knows he cant do anything about it,he is overwhelmed and wants to be anyone else but Kurt cobain
   it can be anout anything. Kurt made this song somehow that some of the people can relate to it and think about it as they like
   in his case i guess he was sorry that he wanted to leave Courtney and Frances but he didnt know which is better, leaving or staying cuz in his mind he thought if he staus with them he would somehow ruin their life
   And kurts song did not always have true meanings,he never wanted his lyrics be analysed,but yet he had deeper meanings in some songs
   and some were just for you to figure out the meaning you like
5. anonymous

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   Nov 8th 2012 !⃝

   This song is real simple; it’s about Kurt Donald Cobain’s lack of being able to love someone therefore, no one can be in-love with him. So Kurt is apologizing for “being himself “ that so many people loved.
6. anonymous

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   Jul 9th 2012 !⃝

   In my humble opinion, it's a suicide note written like a nursery rhyme. Imagine Kurt on the floor playing with his daughter and just feeling overwhelmingly guilty for anything and everything. I think it's a big picture song. The words were not intended to be broken down into debatable realistic ideas.
7. natez

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   May 31st 2012 !⃝

   Sorry this may come off as over-analyzing or superstitious but I hope you'll take me seriously when I tell you what this song means to me and, I believe, for everyone. I had a pretty intense experience in the days directly before and after I came upon this and all of a sudden all the words (which I've always heard everyone say make no sense) made sense.
   The last verse of 'On a Plain' lets us in to the message he was giving. "It is now time to make things unclear, to write off lines that don't make sense... One more special message to go and then I'm done and I can go home" Home is to heaven (in the sun I feel as one, married, buried). This is the second "special message", All Apologies. All in all is all we are, over and over and over again he says it. We are all One, all souls are parts of the whole which is God (John 17:21-23).
   'Come as You Are' is written from the Father of all children as a message to them to come. Reread the song from this perspective. Look at Luke 15:11-32, the story of the prodigal son. Come doused in mud or soaked in bleached, the dirty "sinners" and the pure of heart. What do you feel when we know someone has a gun? Fear. Don't be afraid to come before the goodness of goodness, there's only deeper peace for you. You can take forever but the sooner the better, there's only higher truth to know. The memory is where we all came from, the absolute before we were planted into a body.
   Smells like Teen Spirit is written from peoples view, they prefer to be in the dark, fearful and just want to be entertained. That's why everyone loved it and why Kurt said he didn't understand why Pennyroyal Tea wasn't a hit, because it was about the same thing. The last line that he yells, "A denial" is exactly what it is (check out 'House of Cards' by Radiohead). We were meant to live in freedom and love, not trapped in this material bulls--t, self-serve, stress inducing world we seem so attached to. Kurt set into motion the 90's, a great time where anyone could have a song on the radio and being modest was cool.
8. anonymous

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   Mar 20th 2012 !⃝

   He didn't kill himself. Courtney paid some skinhead $50k to do it
9. anonymous

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   Oct 2nd 2011 !⃝

   This is about the illuminati and media when he says I dont have the right he is saying he cant fully express himself because he doesnt wanna die .
10. anonymous

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    Aug 8th 2011 !⃝

    The meaning of every song kurt wrote was to get you to think, I think.
11. Jose Miguel Gutierrez

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    Jun 20th 2011 !⃝

    He's saying his goodbyes.
12. anonymous

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    May 17th 2011 !⃝

    For me this song is all about coming clean with life. Like Curt realized: Whatever you you are,who ever you are and whatever you think or feel, someone can be offended or judge you for whom you are. We don't want to be blamed so we start with saying sorry for everything. That's why he sais: Ill take all the blame- everything is my fault... all those alligations he takes on himself just so he can be 'what he is". So in the end all one can be is 'all apologies'.
    
    For me it represents the whole idea/ philosofy of Generation X.
13. anonymous

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    Apr 7th 2011 !⃝

    Am I the only one who thinks this song is about Kurt's ex Mary Lou Lord? The 'Mary' in the song is my main clue, but the others come from the fact that he dumped her by saying on TV 'Courtney Love is the best fuck I ever had.' Courtney even chased Lord down the street once and attacked her, so I think this is Kurt's way of apologizing to her.
14. anonymous

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    Mar 2nd 2011 !⃝

    I think Kurt just lost interest in punk rock music.The tune of the song was unusual,so different from their other songs and the singing of that song was just his way to fell sorry.
15. anonymous

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    Feb 19th 2011 !⃝

    Well I actually think this song is about the effects of marijuana in the brain his lyrics repeat marry and then he says "choking on the ashes of her emeny" well this is what I interrupt from this song. Then he also wrote "i wish I was like you easily assume" also could mean the effect of marijuana .

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