Backwater

Curt Kirkwood wrote it. He told Songfacts that he always liked Elvis's gospel albums and gospel in general, and the song began as a slower, bluesier number inspired by Elvis's spirituals, hymnal slow in its early form. It reached 47 on the Billboard Hot 100, their only entry, 2 on Mainstream Rock, 11 on Modern Rock and 31 on Mainstream Top 40. Rocky Schenck directed the video. The two-track single pairs it with Cris Kirkwood's "Station"; the three-track promo adds a re-recorded "Lake of Fire" and a cover of a Feederz song, and the five-track has "Open Wide", "Animal", a re-recorded "Up on the Sun" and Marty Robbins's "White Sport Coat" with They Might Be Giants on backing vocals.

Wikipedia says the exposure from the Nirvana Unplugged appearance, with this song, lifted the band commercially. We found no explanation of the lyric. Setlist.fm shows it played in 2017 and 2019, and Michael Azerrad performed it as a cover in 2026; we have no per-song count. We do not know whether our upload is the album version.