Cover art for Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip by Nirvana

Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip

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Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip Lyrics

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4]
We'd have so much more diversity
And so much more input
So much more creative flow if we had someone in school, a G-I-T
G-I-T
Geeks in town (Ha)
Come on, Dave, think of one (Girls in trouble)
It should be GIC, geeks with Charvels, no, GWC
Fuck it, man, this is a waste of time

[Interlude]
A-hahaha
Hahaha
One more solo?
Yeah! Yeah!


[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
You're—personally responsible for
The entire strip to be washed away
Cleansed, as if gallons of, um, rubbing alcohol
Flowed through the strip and were set on fire
It didn't just singe the hair, it made it straight

And then Perry Ellis came along with his broom
And his silk
And he—
He erected a beautiful city
A city of stars
[Guitar Solo Outro]

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“Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip” is a demo recorded during a January 1993 jam session while on tour in Brazil. It is a hidden track on non-American pressings of In Utero that appears twenty minutes after the end of “All Apologies”. The song is unfinished and features improvised lyrics by Cobain dealing mostly with his heroin addiction.

  1. 11.
    Beans
  2. 39.
    D-7
  3. 51.
    Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip
  4. 57.
    Sappy
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