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Bertram Bins IV

Feb 20, 2025

What do these Nirvana lyrics mean? “She eyes me like a Pisces when i am weak”…from Heart Shaped Box?

what does the openning line from Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" mean?"She eyes me like a pisces when i am weak"??
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Carol Funk

Feb 20, 2025

Most likely due to the fact that Kurt was a Pisces."She eyes me" means she was looking at him."Like a Pisces" In the sense that Kurt was a true Pisces, all of the charactreistics associated with that sign, he embodied, and she was noticing them."When I am weak" Kurt was suffering from severe heroin addiction at the time, and was weakened by it.That's the best I got.... Show More
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Carol Funk

Feb 20, 2025

Apparently he found Courtney's love letters from Billy Corgan, which she saved in a heart-shaped box. He was consumed with jealousy and wrote the song in only a couple of hours... Show More
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Carol Funk

Feb 20, 2025

Pisces are very empathetic people, who can see through your soul and into your emotions and who you truly are. So Kurt probably meant that something or someone can look into his soul when he is feeling weak and vulnerable.... Show More
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Carol Funk

Feb 20, 2025

"She" refers to drugs. Cobain had a weakness for drugs (addiction) and Pisces can see your weaknesses. (Pisces is also mentioned in his suicide note by the way). "When you turn black" was the black tar drug, it is cancer and is like a magnet trap (think about the addiction, you want it and can t escape). "Priceless advice" was the things he did when he was intoxicated.... Show More
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Carol Funk

Feb 20, 2025

Cobain's lyrics were always strange. They were personal so i dont think anyone could ever really know. Nirvana is awesome though.... Show More
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Carol Funk

Feb 20, 2025

Those lyrics were written in a heroin induced haze, who knows.... Show More
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Carol Funk

Feb 20, 2025

It means Cobain was on drugs and had no clue how to write a decent song.... Show More
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