Nirvana: Milk It Meaning

Milk It Lyrics

i am my own parasite
i don't need a host to live
we feed off each other
we can share our endorphins

doll steak
test meat

look on the bright side suicide
lost eye sight i'm on your side
angel left wing right wing broken wing
lack of...

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   Apr 5th 2013 !⃝

   I am my own parasite - I am consuming myself, completely dependent on myself, without another means of support. Very lonely. Further - We feed off each other, we can share our endorphins. He's his own parasite, no host, empty, he is a self sustaining "Doll," a product, he and those who would consume him can share their endorphins, including us, the fans who probably asked too much. Doll steak, test meat - what he's become, he's there to be consumed, a commodity no longer human. He's processed. He's meat. Perhaps the chorus is stream of consciousness, but seems to be lucid enough in documenting his utter loneliness, isolation, depression, addiction, coping with his loss of his humanity, the suicidal contemplation, the physical drain, being pulled every direction, eventually broken, and when he tries to chill out, to escape, even go into rehab, the scent (possibly of heroine?) is still there, beckoning. It could also just be the scent of the monster that his life has become, this endless mass that would consume him... Milk it for all its worth, right? Milk him, the band... Just a thought.

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   Jun 29th 2014 !⃝

   What ever the fuck you want it to mean don't look into stuff it just ruins it interpret it your own way it will have more meaning that way.
3. anonymous

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   Apr 11th 2023 !⃝

   It's not about any of those things...... you all missed the point. It's about other bands meeting the status-quo to sell records and charge high prices for concert tickets.
   
   I am my own parasite ( The Band )
   I don't need a host to live ( Record Company )
   We feed off of each other ( the fans )
   We can share our endorphins.. ( the experience )
   
   this is about his relationship with the music and his real fans who came to see it performed.
   
   He literally made an obnoxious song ... to make a point that he make music for .... the sake of making great music with emotion and feeling.
   
   
4. anonymous

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   Sep 16th 2017 !⃝

   It's about smoking crack.
5. anonymous

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   Sep 9th 2014 !⃝

   Nirvana is considered by a good population of people to have been influenced by occultism. There's a crescent moon with an upside cross on the back of the album and he mentions twice that his ex is a witch and literally wants to see if she'll sink or swim. A common belief in satanism is that all spiritual warriors gets wings in the after life. he mentions the angel left wing and the right one broken. the left hand path is worshiping the dark side of god aka satan. he has lost eyesight. obituary birthday a concept of reincarnation where you die on your next birthday. Hence Cobain's planned suicide.
6. anonymous

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   Jun 16th 2014 !⃝

   The traditional interpretation is sound but double meaning and cryptic explanation are the hall mark of misunderstood apathetic intelligent people everywhere. I'll lay some foundation for my future elaboration. On the back of In utero we have our first shocker a bunch of aborted fetuses. When you subject yourself to images on a regular basis you start to become more okay with seeing it. This is hidden pro abortion satanic propaganda. Next big shocker, we have a robed three headed horned demon demon with four feet carrying a sword and a whip, nuff said. Next there's a crescent moon that runs into an upside down cross. The moon is repeated and symbolizes the light in the darkness pretty much the most prevalent symbol in witchcraft other than the pentagram. There is more symbology here but if you chose not to see the possibility of Cobains occultism it probably won't help. A common occult practice is sex magick . Tainting the gift of sex by using it to help create your will instead of progeny. Tantra for example. Well post break up occultists can get lonely too as in this case and have been known to seek companionship on a different level. The spirit world. Mainly succubi and incubi. Their job is to harvest deviated spirit energy for various nefarious purposes and according to the consensus of occultism. Most people claim to never see them unless in smoke, but say they can feel them as though the touch was never made but the feeling came from within. He's telling his succubus to milk his you know what! First two lines contain a paradox so that the rest of the song seems like jibberish. He recognizes that whatever it is it is ultimately him doing it or facilitate the succubus. Yes I don't think its crazy to believe a fellow suicidal manic depressive occultist degenerate opiate addict would stoop as low as to hook up with a "demon". You have to remember he tried his best to be the same guy he was before Nirvana. So groupies nope and hired female company nada. She feeds her need to be in a body to experience sex and his energy and he feeds his sex drive. Doll steak test meat. A paradox of sorts again. A letter jumble(a favorite of occult artists) maybe. Or he's trying to do the occult thing and using steak as a doll(vessel) to test if meat would work. Lilith is queen over all succubi and incubi according to just about every occult text. She is the patron of the dark mother and is pro abortion and is blamed for still birth and SIDS. Tempts one into deviation of all manner of body secretions. He words the next line to be read multiple ways. All are self explanatory. He has lost eye sight he is on the succubi's side. Lost as in spirit and lost eyesight as in the old wives tale.Lol angel left wing broken right. Left hand path strong, ability to do right broken. A bit of an explanation. Lol cages usually mean the body. Protector of the body. Ectoplasmal and skeletal. Obituary birthday. Your scent is still in my place of recovery. I gather he tried to incarnate her on the day of her death and apparently he at least got her scent and it haunts him while he's recovering from the attempt.

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7. anonymous

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   Nov 12th 2011 !⃝

   I think he's using the parasitism metaphors to discribe a disfunctzional, codependent relationship... and the chorus might be a random collection of grossness/ discribe a stream-of-conciousness sort of thing/ generall theme of sickness and weakness.
   
   I particularly like the last sentence "Your scent is still in my place of recovery!"... As in, the person escaped from the "parasite" and tries to recover from the effects of it all, but can't really get rid of her...
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   Feb 8th 2011 !⃝

   This song talks about adictions and dependence not only on drugs but with everything and about people who don't have opinions anymore.
   "lack of iron and or sleeping" probably means that he feels tired and weak in probably because of his medical condition, lack of iron could also mean that he's too weak to keep on going and that suicide is becoming a brighter way out of it.
   Anyhow, it is very difficult to know what kurt was talking about, he has a very peculiar writing style where yo can take a lot of conclusion or none from.
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   May 31st 2009 !⃝

   I think this songs is about Kurt's problem with drugs,,and this time Courtney had help them to finish the problem..it reflected in"her milk is my shit.....".It probably means that Kurt had addicted with drugs...and also Courtney..he loves Courtney so much.."we're feeding each other"
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    Sep 17th 2008 !⃝

    I know this cause this song, is a lot like me...well to me it is haha
    
    The first verse (I think) means
    
    Even if everyone else is laughing; and if its not funny, I won't laugh. In other words I don't feel a emotion just cause someone else does. Then he describes what its like to laugh because someone else is laughing
    
    Don't say test me. pretty simple. go away I want to be alone. Test me, if you do stay, your testing my patience and how long I can be around you without falling apart.
    
    Next verse is kinda random but somehow ties together haha.
    look on the bright side is suicide. I think means hey if it gets any worse I could always kill myself. lost eyesight I'm on your side. means I don't know why I agree with you but probably cause I don't know what to think anymore. This next line could mean politics, but I don't think that's what it means. you know democrats left wing is good. right wings are broken and don't work anymore. next two lines are obvious..i feel weak and lazy and I don't know why maybe iron problems etc.. etco- shit means energy like ghosts n stuff. To me he's talking about anxiety flight of fight rush of adrenaline. Then the rest is simple.....god that took forever and I feel like I have no life haha

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