Nobody for sure knows what this song is about but that is how Kurt would have wanted it.
But here are some guesses/facts/reviews about \"Floyd The Barber\" from songfacts.com :
This song is about a small American town where everyone has become a mass murderer. A man goes into a barber shop for a haircut and (in a more detailed way) gets a hot towel put over his face, tied to the chair, is forced to suck Floyd's privates and is cut up and slashed to death by the other people he sensed in the room.
The people mentioned in this song are all based on characters from The Andy Griffith Show. Kurt Cobain wrote the song thinking, \"What if all these people were mad, sadistic, killers?\" The guy in the song went into the barber shop for a shave, but instead gets urinated on by Floyd, cut up by Opie and Aunt Bea, and suffocated by Andy Griffith.
The band was known as Skid Row when they first started playing this in 1987. They recorded it for the first time at KAOS, the student-run radio station of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
