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Hi,
While I am reading the lyric of "Pennyroyal Tea — Nirvana", I have a problem of understanding one sentence "I'm anemic royalty".
I was wondering if someone could tell me what the meaning of "I am anemic royalty" is?
I checked the dictionary, "anemic" means "weak", weak royality?? or a weak person with royal rank??
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Anemic usually means suffering from a shortage of blood, i.e. iron, and thus appearing pale, sickly and weak. In connection with royalty it might be a reference to inbreeding.
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Wasn't anemia common in the royal house of Russia before the Bolshevisk Revolution?
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Not quite. The little Grand Duke had hemophilia.
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I would read that usage of "anemic" as pale, washed-out, and weak, rather than as a reference to the actual disease of anemia. But then again, I don't know that I would read all THAT much into ANY of Nirvana's lyrics -- a lot of them didn't really make much sense.
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