Kurt Cobain said of the song: "That song is mostly about having a certain vision and being smothered by a relationship and not being able to finish what you wanted to do artistically because the other person gets in your way."

It was late revealed inside Charles Cross's book, Heavier Than Heaven that a song was all about Kurt's ex-girlfriend, Tobi Vail. Krist Novoselic is quoted when saying that "Lounge Act" is astir Tobi & Kurt wrote inside an angry (unsent) letter to Vail that "Lounge Act" was a simply song write on her & wrote that he never played it unless Courtney Love was non in.

The key lyrical information is "I'll arrest myself and wear a shield" - this occurs as directly informatiin to a K-Records logotype that he experienced tattooed on his arm to prove his indie-rock believability to Tobi & because he thought it were the label of The Vaselines. For the record he was mistaken, it simply distributed the children.