“Something in the Way” is the twelfth and final song on Nirvana’s major label debut, Nevermind—not including its hidden track, “Endless, Nameless.” While many fans believed that the lyrics were auto-biographical, concerning a stint of vagrancy in Kurt Cobain’s life, this common misconception has been refuted by several sources. According to Michael Azerrad’s September 1993 biography, Come As You Are, Cobain said the concept was supposed to be:

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