Song Author: Kurt Cobain
Writing Period: 1988
Recording Session: 12-26/02/93 Pachyderm Studios, Cannon Falls, MN
Alternate/Working Titles: Sad - Trophy - Verse, Chorus, Verse
Common Mislabels: Seed - The Rocker - Happy Again - Make Him Happy - The Grasshopper - No Alternative - Laundry Room - Another Rule - Everything and Nothing - Final Flight - Happy Hour - Happy - If You Kill Yourself - Make You Happy - Mistero - Shappy
There was a song title controversy surrounding this song. Most people (pre-box set) knew this song as Verse Chorus Verse. At the time of the song's release on the No Alternative compilation for AIDS awareness, the song appears uncredited. Press releases called the song Verse Chorus Verse. The No Alternative version is from the In Utero Sessions.
Verse Chorus Verse was actually the title of the song widely bootlegged as "In His Hands." Since Cobain abandoned that song after the Nevermind Sessions, it appears that he saved the title and gave it to Sappy at some point in 1993. One of the prospective titles for In Utero was Verse, Chorus, Verse, and Sappy was in consideration for that track list. When the box set was released in 2004, the titles were set back to what they were in May 1991.
from Disc 3 of "With the Lights Out"
Lyrics
And if you save yourself, you will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar, then you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes, then you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with grass, then you'll think you're happy
Now
You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you
And if you cut yourself, you will think you're happy
He'll keep you in a jar, then you'll make him happy
He'll give you breathing holes, then you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with grass, then you'll think you're happy
Now
You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you
You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you
And if you fool yourself, you will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar, then you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes, then you will seem happy
You'll wallow in your shit, then you'll think you're happy
Now
You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you
