You bite through the big wall
the big wall bites back
you sit there and sulk
sit there and bawl
you are so pretty
when you're on your knees
disinfected
and eager to please
sometimes you sulk
sometimes you burn
god rest your soul
when the loving comes
and we've already gone
just like your dad
you'll never change
eachg time it comes
it eats me alive
I try to behave
but it eats me alive
so I declare a holiday
fall asleep drift away
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Song Info:
One of Thom's earliest creations, this song was inspired by a ruthless and unexplained killing spree conducted by a lone gunman in Hungerford, England, in 1987. Although its original concluding lyrics were "just shoot your gun," these were changed when the song was recorded in late 1994. This was because the death of Kurt Cobain was still weighing heavily on people's minds while the Hungerford killings were not; Thom chose to change the lyrics so that no one would think the song was about the late NIrvana leader. "Sulk" is rarely heard live: the band played it in concert a few times in 1994, even less often in 1995, and never again after that.
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