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Rhythm 9.8
Melody 9.9
Instruments 9.9
Lyrics 9.9
Vocal 10.0
This song has been reviewed 21 times. Overall score for this song, 9.9.
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Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea Lyrics

Song details
TitlePennyroyal Tea
ArtistNirvana
AlbumIn Utero (1993) , Track 9 ,
Nirvana (The Best Of) (2002) , Track 10 ,
Unplugged In New York (1994) , Track 5
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Rank8,898 (-995) history
Referring urlstop 10

Song lyrics
I'm on my time with everyone 
I have very bad posture 

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea 
Distill the life that's inside of me 
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea 
I'm anemic royalty 

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld 
So I can sigh eternally 

I'm so tired I can't sleep 
I'm a liar and a thief 
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea 
I'm anemic royalty 

I'm on warm milk and laxatives 
Cherry-flavored antacids 

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea 
Distill the life that's inside of me
I'm anemic royalty 
I'm anemic royalty
lyrics submitted by Daisy
lyrics corrected by samoubistvo on 28-06-2006




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28-04-2004 13:45roquegaL is offline roquegaL 

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hie....I love nirvana music too...and this song is jus great
07-06-2004 02:14heavy_rocker_o1 is offline heavy_rocker_o1 

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Alotta people dont like this song but I do....Very good song and written good...
29-06-2004 15:53RedVelvetDeath is offline RedVelvetDeath 

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This is my favorite Nirvana song. I love it.
30-06-2004 16:52Althea_Flynt is offline Althea_Flynt 

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Do you know this song is about abortion?
02-07-2004 02:55nirvana556 is offline nirvana556 

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no i didnt know thats what it was about. i thought it was about his stomach pains
11-07-2004 13:21D_bitch is offline D_bitch 

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it was abaut his stomec pain...it is a form...
15-09-2004 17:35Lytchi is offline Lytchi 


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Does anyone know if Pennyroyal tea is good? Haha not funny.
14-11-2004 15:36wikis is offline wikis 

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haha neva herd ov penny royal tea EVA !!
wot is it ??
14-11-2004 15:37wikis is offline wikis 

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haha o yes its tea
26-11-2004 13:19Man_in_the_Box is offline Man_in_the_Box 

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This music isn't talking about tea... Its Penny Royalty (pennyroyal tea).....get it?
03-12-2004 21:31woooooooooo is offline woooooooooo 

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im not really 2 bothered bout wot its about. i just know that this song is amazing! everything bout it just fits in so well 2 make a really emotional song
03-12-2004 21:41MyLittleNoodle is offline MyLittleNoodle 

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Bleh, the best part about song's is what they're about. . .
Anyways, Kurt was genious. I love this song.
03-12-2004 23:50guitargurl06 is offline guitargurl06 

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[offtopic]pennyroyal tea is an herbal abortive used about 200 years ago. It killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child most of the time.

[topic=]GREAT SONG!
28-12-2004 03:32Moomama is offline Moomama 

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thats right, penny royal tea was used as an abortion agent years ago. however, this song is about Kurt's chronic indigestion, not abortion.
01-01-2005 14:20freak_in_cell is offline freak_in_cell 

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KURT COBAIN WAS A GEINUS<<< the lyrics in this song are so well put 2gethr. . .just that the song is about a stomach ache, and that the made such a great song out of it
05-01-2005 07:48Laura_for_kurt is offline Laura_for_kurt 

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hey this song is great!
19-03-2005 19:44Lethal1 is offline Lethal1 

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In Utero.. god I love this album..
great song..
07-04-2005 12:17the_josh is offline the_josh 

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this is such a good song. i never knew that it was about stomach pains. kurt is sooo genious how he can maake such a good song out of something so trivial. def one of my top 5

forever 27
25-04-2005 00:47bassrocker14 is offline bassrocker14 

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It wasn't just a stomach ache. He actually had them very frequently and it was very painful. Doctors never found out what was wrong with him or why they occured. Thats one of the reasons he started to use heroin.

This song is amazing!! I Kurt!! and Nirvana!!
04-05-2005 21:15badlydrawnroy is offline badlydrawnroy 

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these were crippling stomach pains, and yes it was partly these which contributed to his addiction, in his suicide note he referred to "the pit of my burning nauseous stomach"
05-05-2005 18:02gakhandal is offline gakhandal 

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in my top 5 nirvana songs its # 3 freaken cool song and the greatest group ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumb:
31-05-2005 12:29phoenix_rocker is offline phoenix_rocker 

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My God, some of these people just don't care do they????? :bitchslap: :bitchslap:

* offtopic :
Fuckers



The song is about abortion and stomach pain, either way, it's dark. Still some people are going "I love kurt" "I love this song" and crap.

What has happened to the sane people of the world????

Argh, I have to be checked up, dude.

Okay...to be honest, i found this song extremely amusing. He's singing about pain but it sounds like he's laughing about it...almost like it's so painful that he doesn't care anymore.

I kind of disagree about it being about abortion because formost, it's a guy singing. Get it???? But then it could be a secondary meaning, you know?
12-06-2005 18:32kurts_gal is offline kurts_gal 

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when i first heard this song, i ddnt think that much of it, now i LOVE it. Realli heavy, great drums dave!
12-06-2005 18:45aratquariel is offline aratquariel 

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love this song.
03-07-2005 08:34mentaluprising is offline mentaluprising 

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Pennyroyal is a plant is a member of the mint family (peppermint, spearmint, etc) and has been used throughout history for a bunch of medical purposes including abortions. One of it's other uses is to help stomach indigestion and pain. If you take too much i can be fatal, however. Kurt was known to drink Pennyroyal Tea for his constant stomach pains. It could both help him and kill him. I figure the song is about him realizing that and not caring--Either way the pain is gone...

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