Calling it an umbilical noose indicates his suicidal tendencies.Įvanescence recorded an acoustic version that was released on their "Going Under" single in 2003. The lyrics, "Throw down your umbilical noose so i can climb right back" is Cobain's way of saying that he wants to climb back into his mother's womb and restart his life. Nirvana's songs "Milk It" and "Marigold" also appeared on the single. Bassist Krist Novoselic has commented that he told Kurt it wasn't worth it to pander to Wal-Mart like that, and recalls that Kurt responded by saying that Wal-Mart was the only store he could go to when he was a kid and that he didn't want any young fans to be unable to buy their album because of this. The stronger reason that Wal-Mart wanted to ban the album was that it included a song entitled "Rape Me." However, Wal-Mart in the end did NOT ban the song, because Kurt Cobain conceded by providing them with a version that was slightly altered on the exterior, with the song "Rape Me" listed as "Waif Me," and with the image on the back being a zoom-in of one small part of the original back cover, so that it was difficult to tell that the image was of plastic fetuses. This contributed to the album almost getting banned at K-Mart and Wal-Mart. There is a plastic-fetus collage on the back cover of In Utero that was designed by Kurt Cobain. The original title was "Heart-Shaped Coffin". The song switches meanings between Kurt's feelings over Courtney and his feelings on how women are treated.Ī live version appears on From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996).
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There is no clear explanation, which was probably what Cobain had in mind.Īccording to the book Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad, the idea of the song came from Courtney Love when she presented Kurt with a heart-shaped box full of precious possessions. There are many possible interpretations for the "Heart-Shaped Box." It could be a box for Kurt's needles, an actual heart, or a box of love letters. The lyrics talk about the situation of an aborted fetus from the first-person viewpoint. The "Heart-Shaped Box" could be a reference to a uterus. Cobain and Love both shared a love and fascination of dolls. This is believed to have inspired the song's title. Love, after their second meeting sent a small heart-shaped box, containing, among other things, a doll's head, to his hotel room. It's worth noting that the lyrics mention Pisces and Cancer, Cobain's and Love's respective astrological signs. The lyrics do tend towards this latter interpretation, since they seem to concern themselves with an unstable romance between two individuals. However, many believe it was really written about his shaky but passionate relationship with his wife, Courtney Love. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's frontman and the song's author, claimed that this song was inspired by a television report of children suffering from cancer. Here is some background information on "Heart-Shaped Box" from :
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