Lyrics

Notes

You bite through the big wall, the big wall bites back   You just sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl   You are so pretty when you're on your knees   Disinfected, eager to please    Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn   God rest your soul   When the loving comes and we've already gone   Just like your dad, you'll never change    Each time it comes it eats me alive I try to behave but it eats me alive   So I declare a holiday   Fall asleep, Drift away    Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn   God rest your soul When the loving comes and we've already gone   Just like your dad, you'll never change    Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn   God rest your soul   When the loving comes and we've already gone   Just like your dad, You'll never change

One of Thom's earliest creations, this song was inspired by a ruthless and unexplained killing spree conducted by a lone gunman in Hungerford, England, in 1987. Although its original concluding lyrics were "just shoot your gun," these were changed when the song was recorded in late 1994. This was because the death of Kurt Cobain was still weighing heavily on people's minds while the Hungerford killings were not; Thom chose to change the lyrics so that no one would think the song was about the late Nirvana leader. "Sulk" is rarely heard live: the band played it in concert a few times in 1994, even less often in 1995, and never again after that. [taken from greenplastic.com]