Nirvana band question: fans only?!
Question: what do you think the song penny royal tea is about?
Answers: what do you think the song penny royal tea is about?
Pennyroyal is a herb sometimes used as an abortifacient. Some have speculated that it was written, at least partially, about Cobain's stomach pains (later discovered to be caused by a pinched nerve). The lyric "I'm on warm milk and laxatives" may have been about Cobain's heroin abuse, since addicts sometimes consume laxatives in order to combat constipation resulting from use of the drug. Pennyroyal tea could also be a metaphor for Cobain's reasons for using heroin. "Sit and drink pennyroyal tea, distill the life that's inside of me" could refer to pennyroyal's use as an abortifacient, which is used as a metaphor for ridding the problems that he was dealing with at the time...
i agree strongly with what Gray said
wut grey said... tis almost exactly wut i thought... weird...