Something in The Way

The song "Something in The Way" was written by the late and great lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Nirvana. The song made its debut on the album "Nevermind" in 1991 when the album was released. The song written by Kurt tells the story of times that his parents would fight into the late hours of the night and he would leave for the night and sleep under the Wishkah River bridge which was close to his home town of Aberdeen, Washington. The evidence for this can be found in the first line of the song where it states "Underneath the bridge, tarp has sprung a leak." Kurt had a very hard childhood. His parents were constantly fighting for over the course of a year until they finally ended up in a divorce which further disoriented Kurt as he was very young growing up in an extremely broken home. The only things that Kurt had any type of motivation to do was play the guitar and record music. Which led to the start of Nirvana who was in the very beginning actually called "Fecal Matter" After the course of a year they changed the name. I believe that this song is one of the most poetic I've heard. As it tells about an actual time in someones life and the meaning behind almost every piece of the text in the song. I believe it truly shows how hard of a life he had been living in his childhood and throughout much of his life. Kurt saw a lot of the bad in the world and that is most of what he wrote about in many of his songs. In the end Kurt killed himself at the age of twenty seven. In a way this song tells the story of his life and that I believe is the most poetic part of the song.