Here's an amusing video of a Nirvana performance in 1992, in which they did a parody cover of “The End” by the Doors. The End was part of a much longer work about the Lizard King, Jim Morrison's tribute to Frazer's “The Golden Bough.” The Golden Bough was a rather speculative anthropological work about ancient fertility rituals and sacred kingship, and Jim Morison imagined himself as a ritual king who had to be sacrificed to ensure the fertility of the land.

You could make the case that this is actually a pretty good metaphor for the public's relationship with its pop stars. South Park made basically the same point in their Brittany Spears episode, but didn't take it quite as seriously as Jim Morrison seems to have- not surprisingly!

The Lizard King project never really got off the ground, but sections of it morphed into other songs, including The End. The original version wanders around for a while and then turns into a dark Freudian tale of incest and murder, fitting in with Morrison's typical themes of transgressive sexuality, violence and darkness. You can see the Golden Bough concepts in the original lyrics if you know what to look for, but that isn't really important now. The theory behind the work is considered outdated by modern anthropologists, so it's really just Morrison's jumping-off point for his own music and lyrics.

Nirvana decides to take it in a completely different direction, telling the story of a killer with a hankering after waffles and grits, and his visit to a local Waffle House in Belgium!