Nirvana - Oh, the Guilt [Lyrics]

Description:
Songwriter: Kurt Cobain
Writing Period: 1990
Recording Session: 07/04/92 Laundry Room Studio, Seattle, WA
Common Mislabels: It Takes a Time - Oh, My Guilt

April '92 saw NIRVANA return to the studio for the first time following the huge success of Nevermind. Producer, Barrett Jones, had built a studio in the basement of the Seattle house he and his girlfriend shared with Dave Grohl.

According to Jones, the whole session took only two or three days to track and mix. Three songs were recorded on a Tascam 38 (½" 8-track) w/DBX and mixed to ¼" at 15 IPS. Jones does not think that any outtakes or alternate versions were saved.

Note that "Oh, The Guilt" was released exclusively on Touch & Go Records as a split single with The Jesus Lizard at Cobain's insistence, although DGC did not want to give away another new song to another indie label.

Jones recalls the session being Quick and smooth, adding, "Yes, that's a lighter that Kurt was flicking in 'Oh The Guilt.'"

from Disc 2 of "With the Lights Out"

Lyrics

She seems to think
She seems too weak
She takes a week
To get over it

She likes the sea
She likes to see
She likes to think
She has all of it

She likes the sound
She likes the sand
She likes to stand
She can't afford to sit

She likes to be
She likes to be
She likes to be
She's into guilt

Guilt
Guilt
Guilt

She likes to think
She likes to think
She seems too weak
She takes all the blame

She likes the time
She owns the time
She borrows time
As to self-invent

She seems too weak
She likes the sea
She likes to think
She has all of it

She likes the sand
She likes to stand
She likes to sit
She likes to go

Go
Go
Go

She seems to think
She seems to weak
She takes a week
To get over it

She likes the sea
She likes to see
She likes to think
She has all of it

She likes the sound
She likes the sand
She likes to stand
She can't afford to sit

She likes to be
She likes to be
She likes to be
She likes to go

Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go