All Apologies

Kurt Cobain rarely talked about this song, but he did say that it was dedicated to his wife, Courtney Love, and daughter, Francis Bean. The song deals with everything that was expected of him and the changes he had been through, which weren't all pleasant judging by the lines, "Married... Buried."

Aberdeen, Washington, where the band formed, is one of the cloudiest places in the United States, and also, according to Cobain, one of the least accepting. As he did on the In Utero track "Dumb," Kurt mentions the sun in this song, singing: "In the sun I feel as one." This reflected his desire to be somewhere else.

This was a highlight of Nirvana's Unplugged In New York, an acoustic album recorded for an MTV special. Nirvana recorded the Unplugged session November 18, 1993 and it aired almost a month later. The album was released November 1, 1994 in the US, seven months after Cobain's suicide. In that context, it sounded like a goodbye message from Cobain.