Biographers, including Charles Cross in Heavier Than Heaven , later debunked this, noting that the Wishkah River's tides would have swept anyone away who tried to sleep there.
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The song "Something in the Way" is the haunting, minimalist closing track of Nirvana’s landmark 1991 album, Nevermind . Its "story" is a blend of Kurt Cobain's personal myth-making, a difficult recording process, and a massive pop-culture resurgence decades later. The "Under the Bridge" Legend
Cobain later admitted the song was more of a "fantasy" or emotional projection, imagining what his life would be like if he were a "total street person" dying of a terminal illness. He did, however, spend time sleeping in hospital waiting rooms and on friends' porches during that transient period. The Unconventional Recording
Out of frustration, Cobain sat on a couch in the Sound City Studios control room and played the song on a cheap 12-string acoustic guitar that only had five nylon strings and wouldn't stay in tune.
