DESCRIPTION:
Songwriter: Kurt Cobain
Writing Period: 1989
Recording Session: 09/89 Music Source Studios, Seattle, WA
Common Mislabels: Eleven in His Mouth

Nirvana booked into The Music Source, intent on recording an EP to promote their forthcoming European tour. "I think it was booked for three evenings and we may have done it in two", recalls producer, Steve Fisk.

Channing's North drums were both a source of amusement and frustration for the producer, "The smallest guy in the band had the biggest, stupidest drum set in the Northwest", cracks Fisk. "The kick drum was held together with miles and miles of duct tape because the bass had been used as a hatchet to chop the kick drum in half."

Indeed, the band's habit of trashing their gear at shows meant that Channing's decrepit drum set was just one of many obstacles Fisk had to equalize around, "Krist had spent all day trying to get his bass amp together because it was all trashed from touring", Fisk remembers. "There were two speakers and only one of them worked, and that didn't work that well. The bass was also fucked up."

The band spent the first evening laying down the basic tracks. "They didn't record 'em quick", Fisk recalls. "They did a lot of trying it again. There was a little sort of medium tension, talking to each other in-between takes."

"I think the idea was to finish the other ones at a later date, we just never got around to it", suggests Fisk, noting that the instrumental break in "Even in His Youth" was supposed to be filled with a guitar solo, "You can also hear that Kurt doesn't do the big screams, he holds back."

The intro of the song would later be used on "Endless, Nameless"

from Disc 1 of "With the Lights Out"

Lyrics

Even in his youth
Even in his youth
Even in his youth
He was nothing

Kept his body clean
Kept his body clean
Kept his body clean
He was nowhere

Daddy was ashamed
Daddy was ashamed
Daddy was ashamed
He was nothing

Even in his youth
Even in his youth
Even in his youth
He was nowhere

He was burning for your brew
Busting, burning, you could chew
I've got nothing left to view
If I you went, you won't need you

I'm outta' here

Even in his youth
Even in his youth
Even in his youth
He was nothing

Kept his body clean
Kept his body clean
Kept his body clean
He was nowhere

Daddy was ashamed
Daddy was ashamed
Daddy was ashamed
He was nothing

Disgrace the family name
Disgrace the family name
Disgrace the family name
He was nowhere

Read this form before you're through
Just before than you could chew
I've got nothing left to view
If you go, you won't need you

I'm outta' here

I got burned for your brew
If I nothing you could view
If you leave before you need
I've got nothing left to clean

I'm outta' here

Even in his youth
Even in his youth
Even in his youth
Yeah, yeah
Even in his youth
Yeah, yeah
Even in his youth
Yeah, yeah
Even in his youth
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah