"Lithium" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It appears as the fifth track on the band's second album, Nevermind, released by DGC Records in September 1991.

2024年7月13日 · On Nirvana's 'Lithium,' Kurt Cobain pit drugs and religion against the often brutal nature of reality and made it into a raging masterpiece.

“Lithium” is a perfect description of manic depression, where every line is both happy and sad, up and down, while having references to God recalling when Kurt lived with a devout Christian...

2021年7月13日 · Kurt Cobain, a famously religiously sceptical individual, may not have personally embraced this mindset, but he was inspired enough by the idea of it to craft a fictional narrative that evolved into one of Nirvana’s greatest songs, ‘Lithium’.

2024年2月21日 · Kurt Cobain’s lyrics on the song “Lithium” vividly capture the emotional rollercoaster endured by individuals with bipolar disorder. The song begins with Cobain expressing happiness (“ I’m so happy ’cause today I found my friends “), reflecting the euphoric highs associated with manic episodes.

2024年7月13日 · Kurt's flirtation with Christianity didn't last long, but his contact with the local church had one benefit - it was here that Cobain met future Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic.

2022年7月13日 · The title of the track comes from the drug Lithium, which is often used by psychiatrists to help treat manic depression and bipolar disorder and can help to regulate the mood of those in depressive suffering. Cobain’s cousin, Beverly Cobain, a psychiatrist nurse, revealed that Kurt himself might have had bipolar disorder.

Kurt Cobain said that this song was not only about him but mostly about depressive feelings of other people which conditions he described in this self-hatred piece. Lithium is used to treat bipolar disorder, previously know as "manic-depressive disorder".

2019年2月10日 · Kurt Cobain wrote the song by imagining a scenario where a man, grieving over the death of his girlfriend, finds solace in religion. As was often the case with Nirvana’s material, their...

Mike Tyson is a famous lithium patient. The CD single contained a sonogram photo of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's unborn child, Frances Bean; Kurt said he thought he saw Frances doing the heavy metal devil horn hand gesture when he watched the sonogram.