The answer is Sliver.

[schmerica]

Me: What is the name of that one Nirvana song? The one where he's a little kid, and he's at his grandmother's house because his parents went or something?

La Soeur: Oh, that one. I hate that one, it's so depressing!

Me: Yes. THAT is the one depressing Nirvana song. [beat] What the hell do you mean? THat's like the least depressing Nirvana song of all time!

La Soeur: Isn't that the one that ends with the guy shooting himself?

Me: ..................no.

La Soeur: Are you sure?

Me: It's about a little kid.

La Soeur: Yeah...

Me: It ends with him waking up in his mother's arms!

La Soeur: [makes skeptical face]

Me: SERIOUSLY I WILL GO LOOK IT UP FOR YOU. [looks it up] After dinner, I had ice cream / I fell asleep and watched TV /I woke up in my mother's arms. That is the last verse!

La Soeur: Huh. Maybe I was thinking of some Nirvana fan who was listening to them and shot himself in the garage.

Me: Maybe?

La Soeur: [pause] A happy song doesn't sound very Nirvana-y, though, does it?

Comments

[hellotransience.livejournal.com]

sliver?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed -- thus the subject line.

[hellotransience.livejournal.com]

^fortheloooosse

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I just have to say that is, by far, my favorite Nirvana song. He went to his grandparents! They served him mashed potatoes! Heh.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Plus: catchy!

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

It made me think that La Soeur was getting it confused with Pearl Jam's epic Jeremy...

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought, as well. Little kid + shooting = Jeremy