Genius Meanings
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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 (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 – Walking after You
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This song is the soundtrack to the 1998 movie The X Files.
There are two different versions of this song, the first one is the one featured on the album The Colour and the Shape
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Foo Fighters – Still
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[Verse 1] / If you'd like to walk a while, we could waste the day / Follow me into the trees, I will lead the way / Bring some change up to the bridge, bring some alcohol / There
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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 Last Song
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[Verse 1] / This is the sound / The here and the now / You got to talk, to talk, to talk, to talk / To get it all out / [Pre-Chorus 1] / I listen / I listen / I listen / But you're
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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 – 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 – 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 – Stranger Things Have Happened
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“Stranger Things Have Happened” is about the accepting a temporary isolation, say the period after a fight between lovers or even a healthy breakup. The accepting of being alone
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3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
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The song was written by drummer/vocalist Brad Arnold in a mathematics class when he was fifteen and was one of the first songs he ever wrote.
In terms of the song’s meaning Arnold
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Foo Fighters – Walking after You (Single Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds / Dreaming aloud / Things just won't do without you / Matter of fact / [Pre-Chorus] / Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh, I'm on your back
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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 – 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 – Walking after You (Single Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds / Dreaming aloud / Things just won't do without you / Matter of fact / [Pre-Chorus] / Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh, I'm on your back
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Alex G – Pretend
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[Verse 1] / Gonna crack a rib, when I get home / I'm gonna bury you in my favorite hole / I made a bloody mess in the kitchen sink / I tried to fix myself, but I didn't think / [
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Foo Fighters – Arrows
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“Arrows” is Concrete and Gold seventh track. As Dave Grohl said:
It happened at the perfect time. I was inspired by what was going on with our country—politically, personally, as
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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 – 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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Five for Fighting – Heaven Knows
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There's no time to waste / In this famous goodbye / There's Angels landing on the shore / So lay down with me / Let the river run dry / It's Sunday in the six-day war / Smile
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Foo Fighters (Ft. Krist Novoselic) – I Should Have Known
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This song is the 10th track on the album Wasting Light of the Foo Fighters.
In this song, Dave tells about Kurt Cobain’s suicide (and, as he has stated publicly, the suicide of
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
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The song is about front man Anthony Kiedis and the period in his life when he walked around Los Angeles sad and very alone, finding solace in the streets and hills and the wind
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
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“Iris” was written for the 1998 film City of Angels starring Nicolas Cage. John Rzeznik explained:
When I wrote it, I was thinking about the situation of the Nicolas Cage
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