Don't Want It All

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"Don't Want It All"
Song by Nirvana
from the album With the Lights Out
Released	November 23, 2004
Recorded	Summer 1988
Genre	Grunge
Length	1:32
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Kurt Cobain
With the Lights Out track listing
Beans (11 of disc 1)	"Don't Want It All" (12 of disc 1)	Clean Up Before She Comes (13 of disc 1)

Don't Want It All (often mislabeled as "Misery Loves Company" and "Spectre") is a song from the American rock band Nirvana, written by Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain. The song, recorded in Summer 1988 as a part of Cobain's "Mellow 4-track Shit" demo tape, was bootlegged among fans during the 1990s until it was officially released in higher quality on Nirvana's 2004 box set, With the Lights Out. The song is generally seen as a deep, poetic song, but is dismissed as nonsense lyrics (which Cobain would occasionally use) by others. The lyrics seem to reflect loneliness. The second verse may also refer to Cobain's relationship with his family. The song features a slow, melancholy bass line and also strange noises such as a rattle snake sounds, a "ping" and a pating sound (probably from an acoustic guitar) in the background.

The song was never performed live, and was seemingly abandoned after Summer 1988.