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"Beeswax" is a rocksong by
Nirvana,
recorded at the Reciprocal Recording Studios on January 23, 1988 and first released on the compilation
albumKill Rock Stars
in 1991. It also featured on
the Nirvana album Incesticide in 1992. Only three live versions have surfaced amongst
fans/collectors, one recorded at the Community World Theatre in
Tacoma on the same day as the studio session, another one recorded
in the same venue two months later, and the last one played in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina in October
1992.
The lyrics to this song, along with the lyrics to the rest
of the January 1988 session were available at emplive.com as scans
of handwritten sheets by Cobain himself. They refer to the medical
use of Beeswax in painkilling. But they really seem to just say
anything that comes to mind.