 Genius Lyrics
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Foo Fighters – But Here We Are
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[Verse 1] / Save / Your shiny little charms / Take 'em off / Take 'em off / Faith / Wish upon a star / But here we are / Here we are / [Verse 2] / Hey (Hey) / Lay your burden down
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Foo Fighters – Run
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“Run” tells of an escape from a dream-like stupor with vaguely political themes. It is unique among Foo Fighters music in that it has a heavier sound than the norm.
The track
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Foo Fighters – The Teacher
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[Part I] / [Intro] / Who's at the door now? / Who's at the door now? / [Verse 1] / Sun goes down, windows wide / One step closer to the other side / I can feel what others do / Can
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Foo Fighters – Everlong
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The second single from 1997’s The Colour and the Shape. “Everlong” was penned by Dave Grohl during his split with his first wife, photographer Jennifer Youngblood.
The divorce
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Foo Fighters (Ft. Norah Jones) – Virginia Moon
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[Verse 1] / Dearest constellation / Heaven surroundin' you / Stay there, soft and blue / Virginia moon, I'll wait for you tonight / [Verse 2] / Sweetest invitation / Breakin' the
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Foo Fighters – Cold Day in the Sun
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Drummer Taylor Hawkins wrote and sings this track, while Dave Grohl plays the drums. Live, it gets an electric version, and not always Taylor leaves the kit.
“I actually wrote
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Foo Fighters – Cloudspotter
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[Verse 1] / Big baby, run and hide / Hope it don't sting when the feeling dies / I got sweet dreams tucked in tight / Silver screen sister in a suit and tie / Two lovers, sick and
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Foo Fighters – Chasing Birds
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[Verse 1] / Chasing birds to get high / My head is in the clouds / Chasing birds to get by / I'm never comin' down / My heart is six feet underground / [Chorus] / The road to Hell
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Foo Fighters – Under You
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[Verse 1] / I woke up and walked a million miles today / I've been looking up and down for you / All this time it still feels just like yesterday / That I walked a million miles
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Foo Fighters – Aurora
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Do you remember “Aurora”? Arguably the Foo Fighters' greatest non-single of all-time!
In Dave Grohl’s own words:
‘Aurora’ is definitely one of my favourite songs that we’ve ever
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Foo Fighters – Monkey Wrench
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This song is about not wanting to be someone’s foolish person/someone who can be manipulated.
Dave wrote this about his Ex-wife Jennifer Youngblood whom he was with for 4 years
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Foo Fighters – The Glass
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[Verse 1] / I had a vision of you, and just like that / I was left to live without it, left to live without it / I found a version of love, and just like that / I was left to live
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Foo Fighters – Love Dies Young
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[Verse 1] / Love dies young, and there's no resuscitation / Once it's done, no regeneration / It's a losin' game that'll make you play / Your hand against your chest, love dies
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Foo Fighters – My Hero
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Grohl has claimed he didn’t have any rockstar rolemodels growing up. This song is a tribute to those he did look up to: the everyday people.
The sentiment on this track is simple
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Foo Fighters – Razor
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[Verse 1] / Wake up, it's time / We need to find a better place to hide / Make up your mind / I need to know, I need to know tonight / [Chorus] / Sweet and divine / Razor of mine
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Foo Fighters (Ft. Violet Grohl) – Show Me How
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[Verse 1] / Where have you gone? / Walk in circles back to square one / Made it through yesterday / Spilling wine, thinking of the time / Wrote you a melody / Rolling your eyes, I
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Foo Fighters – Making a Fire
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[Refrain] / Na, na, na-na-na-na na, na / Na-na-na-na na, na, na-na-na-na na / Na, na, na-na-na-na na, na / Na-na-na-na na, na, na-na-na-na na / [Verse 1] / I've been waitin
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Foo Fighters – Doll
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“Doll” is the opening track on the Foo Fighter’s internationally successful second album, The Colour and the Shape, released May 20, 1997.
The album’s primary lyrical inspiration
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Foo Fighters – Walk
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“Walk” was the final track and third single off of the Foo Fighters‘ 2011 album Wasting Light. It deals with the themes of starting over and overcoming obstacles. It reached Number
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Foo Fighters – All My Life
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“All My Life” is a song by the American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, released as the first single from their fourth album, One by One.
Dave Grohl said that the song was
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Foo Fighters – Walk
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“Walk” was the final track and third single off of the Foo Fighters‘ 2011 album Wasting Light. It deals with the themes of starting over and overcoming obstacles. It reached Number
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Foo Fighters – Waiting on a War
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The third and final preview from Medicine At Midnight, “Waiting on a War” is a multi-faceted song that has a deeply personal meaning for Foo Fighters' leader Dave Grohl
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Wesley Willis – Foo Fighters
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[Verse 1] / This band played at the Metro / About 800 people were at the rock show / The jam session was awesome / It whooped a horse's ass / [Chorus] / The Foo Fighters / The Foo
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Foo Fighters – Everlong (Acoustic Version)
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[Verse 1] / Hello, I've waited here for you / Everlong / Tonight I throw myself into / And out of the red, out of her head, she sang / [Verse 2] / Come down and waste away with me
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Foo Fighters – Breakout
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[Verse 1] / You make me dizzy runnin' circles in my head / One of these days I'll chase you down / Well, look who's goin' crazy now / We're face to face my friend / Better get out
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Foo Fighters – Rest
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[Verse 1] / Wakin' up, bottom of an empty cup / Layin' in your favorite clothes chosen just for you / Make you laugh, maybe I could make you laugh / Books of faded photographs
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Foo Fighters (Ft. Zac Brown) – Congregation
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The joyous third track on the Foo Fighters' ambitious Sonic Highways, “Congregation” continues the tour of American music culture with the next stop along the journey, Nashville
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Foo Fighters – These Days
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[Verse 1] / One of these days, the ground will drop / Out from beneath your feet / One of these days, your heart will stop / And play its final beat / [Verse 2] / One of these days
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Foo Fighters – Sean
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[Verse 1] / Hey, I'm glad I caught you on the phone / Thirty hours until I'm back home / Been hallucinatin', me and Sean / Time to turn his headlamp on / [Pre-Chorus] / Yeah, who
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Foo Fighters – Free Me
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[Chorus] / Free me right now / You take me away, take it from me / Free me right now / You take me away, take it from me / Yeah! / [Verse 1] / Beautiful prisoner, left here for
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Foo Fighters – Winnebago
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An outtake from the Foo Fighters sessions that was still included in a few special editions of the album, and as a B-side for most of its singles.
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Foo Fighters – No Son of Mine
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[Verse 1] / No son of mine will ever do / The work of villains, the will of fools / If you believe it, it must be true / No son of mine, no son of mine / [Verse 2] / No son of mine
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Foo Fighters – Nothing at All
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[Verse 1] / I've been meanin' to tell you / I've been out of my head / Left my heart on your doorstep / You left your hat on my bed / Maybe I'm delusional / Is that so unusual? / [
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Foo Fighters – Medicine at Midnight
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[Verse 1] / Say a prayer and close the light, thumb upon the scale / The pillow is cold, and that ship has sailed / Time has run the river dry, dry as a twisted trail / Into the
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Foo Fighters – The One
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[Verse 1] / Everyone makes one mistake / One more time for old times sake / One more time before the feeling fades / One that’s born of memories / One more bruise you gave to me
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Foo Fighters (Ft. Benjamin Gibbard) – Subterranean
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The seventh track from Sonic Highways comes from their stop in Seattle, and features Ben Gibbard. It marks a double call back to the Foo Fighters debut album: the song was recorded
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Foo Fighters – Oh, George
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[Verse 1] / The train that I got onto up and left that town / Threw it up as it went down / Strange enough, it left me rude and turned around / Watched as they all took their vows
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Foo Fighters – The Pretender
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“The Pretender” was a late addition to the Foo Fighters' sixth album, but once recorded soon started growing in importance, becoming the leading single off Echoes, Silence
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