Always wary of sounding pretentious, Kurt played down the In Utero lyrics to Azerrad: “They are sarcastic one minute and caring the next. That’s how the songs come out. Every song is about things that piss me off, the conflict between good and evil. Some people do evil things to people for no reason, and I want to beat the shit out of them. All I can do is scream into a microphone instead.”
