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Foo Fighters (Ft. Rick Nielsen) – Something from Nothing
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Jumpy and unpredictable, “Something From Nothing” is the opening track on the Foo Fighter’s eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, an ambitious project made in conjunction with a
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – I'll Stick Around
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One of the few songs written on the eve of recording Foo Fighters, “I’ll Stick Around” is defined by Dave Grohl as “a very negative song about feeling you were violated or deprived
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Foo Fighters – A320
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One of the few Foo Fighters studio tracks to feature short-tenured guitarist Franz Stahl, “A320” was recorded once the band were requested to contribute a song to the then-upcoming
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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 – White Limo
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The 4th track on Wasting Light was the first one introduced to audiences, with its shot in VHS and clearly joking music video featuring Lemmy of Motörhead. It is probably the only
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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 (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 – Rescued
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[Verse 1] / It came in a flash, it came outta nowhere / It happened so fast, and then it was over / [Pre-Chorus] / Oh, are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'? / Is this happenin' now
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Foo Fighters – Butterflies
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[Verse 1] / Where's this come from / He's just as dumb / As he denies / He never lies / Her new disguise / Is butterflies / [Chorus] / I'm all sick for you / I'm not a fool / You'
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Foo Fighters – Halo
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[Verse 1] / Good and bad, I swear I've had them / Both, they're overrated / But isn't it fun / When you get hold of one? / Some gone bad and some gone back / The good ones all get
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Foo Fighters – Friend of a Friend
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This was the first song Dave Grohl wrote acoustically. It succinctly describes all three members of Nirvana – Grohl, vocalist/guitarist Kurt Cobain, and bassist Krist Novoselic
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Foo Fighters – FFL (Fat Fucking Lie)
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[Verse 1] / Ready aim fire! / No ones fuckin' 'round standin' in the line! / You gotta feel it right between the eyes! / Time is runnin' out, time to do it right now! / [Chorus
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Foo Fighters – Marigold
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He's there in case I won it all / He's scared 'cause I want / He's scared in case I want it all / He's scared 'cause I want / Chorus: / All in all the clock is slow / Six color
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Foo Fighters – Baker Street
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A cover of the 1978 song by Gerry Rafferty that exchanges the original saxophone instrumentation for loud guitars
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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 – Rope
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Wasting Light’s lead single, “Rope,” talks about a relationship that the narrator needs to stay alive.
When you go, I come loose
Suggesting that without this person he’ll fall.
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Foo Fighters – Miss the Misery
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[Intro] / Oh-oh-oh-oh / Oh-oh-oh-oh / [Verse 1] / If I had my way, if I had to lose / Wouldn't take back one thing, never had much to choose / Then it dawned on me, comin' down on
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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 – Live-In Skin
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[Verse 1] / Take your payroll / And your lottery / There's a place I know / There's a robbery / [Pre-Chorus] / And I swear I'll never tell / If you swear you'll never tell / And we
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Foo Fighters – Resolve
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[Verse 1] / Something that I felt today, something that I heard / Swingin' from the chandelier, hangin' on your word / I remember watching you once upon a time / Dancin' from
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Foo Fighters – Arlandria
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The fifth track on Wasting Light, also issued as a single in the UK.
After the break up of Dave’s parents, he lived with his mother in Northern Virginia and went to high school in
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Foo Fighters (Ft. Gary Clark Jr.) – What Did I Do? / God as My Witness
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The fourth stop on the Sonic Highways journey takes us to the very weird and wonderful Austin, Texas, a cultural hub of music genres alike and a modern-day battleground between
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Foo Fighters – Dear Lover
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[Chorus 1] / Dear lover / Do you remember? / The sound of your laughter and demise / And that was all / I need to fall in love / [Verse 1] / This matter / It's something bigger
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