Nirvana: Serve the Servants Meaning

Serve the Servants Lyrics

Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old
Self-Appointed judges judge
More than they have sold

If she floats than she is not
A witch like we had thought
A down payment on another
One at salem's lot

Serve the servants - Oh...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 20th 2012 !⃝

   The Title gives away the meaning. The servants of course mean The Mexicans (or any other hispanic). Since the Hispanics do all our gardening, housecleaning, hotel cleaning, laundry etc... we should pay them back by giving them a refreshing glass of cactus juice.
   
   "If she floats"
   
   That's the woman crossing the river/ocean/body of water to get into America as an illegal.
   
   "As bones grew they did hurt"
   
   Her bones hurt as she crosses the river/ocean/some body of water.

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2. anonymous

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   Aug 8th 2011 !⃝

   this songs just a big fuck you to everyone. me, you, and the whole world like all kurts songs. its our faults for his dimise not that he isnt to blame either. Damn thats alot to swallow but its the truth the hardest pill to swallow and if you want to youll agree if not o well youll find out (this song just seems to be about everything the fans, the critics, women, opinions, growing up, father-son relationships, the masks we put on for others, the mind, etc. but most importantly...)

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3. boddah

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   May 31st 2009 !⃝

   This songs is about his father..He and his father need each other,,but both of them had a big prestige.,they just need an avowal..kurt expressed this in"I tried hard to have a father but instead I have a dad"..So about the feeling that he feel when he was teenagers...bored and old..
4. outhere68

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   Apr 30th 2009 !⃝

   Serve the servants-give the slaves their meal...give the press what they want and nobody gets hurt...its like an ironic fuk you to the media and their estranged tactics to invade his life and infect everyone around him with there out of proportion "scandals"...
5. anonymous

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   Feb 28th 2008 !⃝

   Now this isn't my interp (cause I know some jackass will judge as if it were if I didn't say this), but I always assumed that Kurt had wrote this song at time in solace. I agree with the first person though about the witch hunt, that's probably the exact reference. I always liked how he said, "there is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before." just never thought of putting it that way. damn good song.

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6. anonymous

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   Jan 14th 2007 !⃝

   Actually the first guy was right every thing he just said is practically the way Kurt explained the song... Ignorance do some research before lashing out.
7. anonymous

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   Mar 14th 2006 !⃝

   Yeah, the first dude is a jackass... you prolly don't know as much about Kurt as I do because if you did you would know this.

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8. anonymous

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   Oct 31st 2005 !⃝

   jeff3417 is right, though it is very sad. I am another example of that. This is the case of many other kids and Kurt couldn't have written it in better words.
   I love the way Kurt expressed the feelings of his generation, my generation and many more generations to come.

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9. Jeff3417

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   Jan 20th 2004 !⃝

   This song is about how important it is for fathers to be in the lives of their children. How an absent father can sometimes screw up a kid to the point where they'll never function normally in society. I can relate to this song a lot because my dad just chums around with me and hasn't really been in my life!
10. anavrin

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    Jan 10th 2004 !⃝

    An autobiographical song about the whole Nirvana experience, the 'witch hunt' on Courtney Love, and a sarcastic response to the emphasis placed on the divorce of Kurt's parents.

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