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Foo Fighters - Wasting Light [2011]
01. Bridge Burning
02. Rope
03. Dear Rosemary
04. White Limo
05. Arlandria
06. These Days
07. Back & Forth
08. Matter of Time
09. Miss the Misery
10. I Should Have Known
11. Walk
Transcribed by the fans on the postboard.
01. BRIDGE BURNING
These are my famous last words!
My number's up, bridges all burned
Oh won't you let me twist your fate
It's getting kinda late but I don't wanna wait no more
Oh may I have this dance of days
Locked in your embrace
Passed your test of faith
Another time another place
Another line upon your face
Another in your way
Down crooked stairs, and sideways glances
Comes the king of second chances
Now throw him in the flame
Whatever keeps you warm at night
(Whatever keeps you warm at night)
Whatever keeps you warm inside
Your bridges are burning down
They're all coming down
It's all coming round
You're burning them down
It's all coming round
They're all coming down
Your bridges are burning now
Oh let me put you in your place
I love it when you say
Giving everything away
Tell what's in it for me
Tell me now what's in it for me
No one's getting this for free
So tell me now what's in it for me
Whatever keeps you warm at night
(Whatever keeps you warm at night)
Whatever keeps you warm inside
Your bridges are burning down
They're all coming down
It's all coming round
You're burning them down
It's all coming round
They're all coming down
Your bridges are burning down
Gather in the ashes
Everything thrown away
Gather in the ashes
Scatter as they blow away
Gather in the ashes
Everything thrown away
Gather in the ashes
Scatter as they blow away
Your bridges are burning down
They're all coming down
It's all coming round
You're burning them down
It's all coming round
They're all coming down
Gather in the ashes (Your bridges are burning down)
Everything thrown away (They're all coming down)
Gather in the ashes (It's all coming round)
Scatter as they blow away
Gather in the ashes (You're burning them down)
Everything thrown away (It's all coming round)
Gather in the ashes (They're all coming round)
Scatter as they blow away
Your bridges are burning down
02. ROPE
This indecision got me climbing up the wall
I've been cheating gravity and waiting on the fall
How did this come over me, I thought I was above it all
Our hope's gone up in smoke, swallow your crown
Choke! On a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you
Choke! On a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you
Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm hanging on you
Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm pulling for you now
Give me some rope I'm coming out of my head, into the clear
When you go I come loose
These premonitions got me crying up a storm
Leave your condition, this position does no harm
Choke! On a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you
Choke! On a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you
Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm hanging on you
Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm pulling for you now
Give me some rope I'm coming out of my head, into the clear
When you go I come loose
Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm hanging on you
Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm pulling for you now
Give me some hope I'm coming through, I'm counting on you
Give me some rope I'm coming out of my head, into the clear
When you go I come...
Loose
03. DEAR ROSEMARY
(feat. Bob Mould)
You got away, got away, got away from me
Now get away, get away, get away from me
I couldn't grow just with living in the shadow
Where do you go when no one's following you?
You ran away, ran away, it was right on cue
Shall I go on and on and on and on and on and on again?
Rosemary you're part of me
You know you are, you are, you are
Rosemary you're part of me
You know you are, you are, you are
Rosemary please pardon me
Truth ain't gonna change the way you lie
Youth ain't gonna change the way you die
Dear Rosemary
Dear Rosemary
You got away, got away, got away with things
You got away, got away, got away with things
False stars young hearts get shattered
Pick up the pieces coming down around you
You ran away, ran away, it was right on cue
Can I go on and on and on and on and on and on again?
Rosemary you're part of me
You know you are, you are, you are
Rosemary you're part of me
You know you are, you are, you are
Rosemary please pardon me
Truth ain't gonna change the way you lie
Youth ain't gonna change the way you die
This was no ordinary life (This was no ordinary life)
This was no ordinary life (This was no ordinary life)
I'm here from now on
But once I'm gone
I'm gone
Truth ain't gonna change the way you lie
Youth ain't gonna change the way you die
Dear rosemary (Dear Rosemary)
You're part of me (You're part of me)
Dear rosemary (Dear Rosemary)
please pardon me (Please pardon me)
Dear rosemary
You got away, got away, got away from me
Now get away, get away, get away from me
04. WHITE LIMO
I’ll take it out of the wishing well
I'm thinkin' I have a plan
Go on with your bad self
What do you see in yourself?
You think you’re losin’, it's time to stop accusin’
You’re never gonna take a hit on the head
Now, if you don’t care
Take a ride somewhere
Hey! It has something you wanna try and buy yourself
Hey! It has something, it goes round and round again
GO! GO! You said that I’ve been away so long
GO! GO! And the ride was shared?
GOOOOOOOOOOO LIIIIIMMMOOO
GOOOOOOOOOOO LIIIIIMMMOOO
I guess you're stuck in the Habitrail
You've grown to lovin' this shit
Way out on a back shelf
You’ll never know what you did
Look what you’re doin', now mama says it's ruined
You got a mollusk in the palm of you hand
So it's a bad smell
Your ass won't win?
Hey! It has something you wanna try and buy yourself
Hey! It has something, it goes round and round and round again
GO! GO! You never have been away so long
GO! GO! And the ride was shared?
GO! GO! Whatever happened to DayGlo clothes?
GO! GO! And the ride was shared?
GOOOOOOOOOOO LIIIIIMMMOOO
GOOOOOOOOOOO LIIIIIMMMOOO
Yeah
All right!
WWWWWWWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA!
05. ARLANDRIA
Ain't that the way it always starts
A simple round of conversation
Became a shameful equation
I flipped you station to station
Hey, don't go and turn the other way
Don't say there's nothin’ more to say
Come on hear me out
Hush, hush, settle down
Button up, don't make a sound
Shame, shame, go away
Come again some other day
You used to say I couldn't save you enough
So I've been savin’ it up, I started savin’ it up
And when you said I couldn't give you enough
I started givin’ you up, I started givin’ you up
You are not me, Arlandria, Arlandria
You and what army, Arlandria, Arlandria
Oh, God you gotta make it stop
Chase all of those memories away
Save them all for another day
Don't you remember it was rain that drowned you
Wait!
I wanna see if you could change
I wanna keep all I could take
I feel much better now
Use me up, spit me out
Let me be your hand-me-down
Fame, fame, go away, come again some other day
You used to say I couldn't save you enough
So I've been savin’ it up, I started savin’ it up
And when you said I couldn't give you enough
I started givin’ you up, I started givin’ you up
You are not me, Arlandria, Arlandria
You and what army, Arlandria, Arlandria
Oh, God you gotta make it stop
My sweat Virginia, I'm the same as I was in your arms
My sweat Virginia, I'm the same as I was in your heart
Shame, shame go away
Come again some other day
Memories keep haunting me
Help me chase them all away
Hush, now settle down
Button up, don't make a sound
Close your eyes, turn around
Help me burn this to the ground
Come now, take the blame, that's okay, I'll play the game
I don't care it's all the same, watch it all go up in flames
Use me up, spit me out
Let me be your hand-me-down
Fame, fame, go away, come again some other day
You used to say I couldn't save you enough
So I've been savin’ it up, I started savin’ it up
And when you said I couldn't give you enough
I started givin’ you up, I started givin’ you up
You are not me, Arlandria, Arlandria
You and what army, Arlandria, Arlandria
Oh, God you gotta make it stop
My sweat Virginia, oh, God you gotta make it
My sweat Virginia, oh, God you gotta make it stop
06. THESE DAYS
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
One of these days the clocks will stop and time won't mean a thing
One of these days their bombs will drop and silence everything
But it's alright
Yeah it's alright
I said it's alright
Easy for you to say
Your heart has never been broken
Your pride has never been stolen
Not yet not yet
One of these days
I bet your heart will be broken
I bet your pride will be stolen
I bet, I bet, I bet, I bet
One of these days
One of these days
One of these days your eyes will close and pain will disappear
One of these days you will forget to hope and learn to fear
But it's alright
Yeah it's alright
I said it's alright
Easy for you to say
Your heart has never been broken
Your pride has never been stolen
Not yet, not yet
One of these days
I bet your heart will be broken
I bet your pride will be stolen
I bet, I bet, I bet, I bet
One of these days
One of these days
But it's all right
Yeah it's all right
Said it's all right
Yeah it's all right
Don't say it's all right
Don't say it's all right
Don't say it's all right
One of these days your heart will stop and play its final beat
But it's all right
Easy for you to say
Your heart has never been broken
your pride has never been stolen
Not yet, no yet
One of these days
I bet your heart will be broken
I bet your pride will be stolen
I bet, I bet, I bet, I bet
One of these days
One of these days
One of these days
07. BACK & FORTH
Once upon a time I was somebody else
In another life I saw myself
Way back then, back when I was new
Somehere down the line I started to slip
Years gone by, biting my lip
All the while, all this time I knew
Now you're on your own, one for the pages
Over the hill and through the ages
Does my heaven burn like hell on you?
Out beneath the cracks and coming in waves
Rolling like an earthquake under the pavement
Heavy now, tell me Mr. True
You got a lot of nerve
Now show a little backbone why don't you
I'm looking for some back and forth with you
Are you feeling the same as I do?
Now and, now and then
I'm looking for some back and forth with you
Are you feeling the same as I do?
Down and out
Holding my breath I waited and waited
How'd this simple life get so complicated?
Shoes to fill, secrets to spill down you
Deer in the headlight, spoke in the wheel
You want pretend, I need for real
I'm taking it back, all my IOU's
You got a lot of nerve
Now show a little backbone why don't you
I'm looking for some back and forth with you
Are you feeling the same as I do?
Now and, now and then
I'm looking for some back and forth with you
Are you feeling the same as I do?
Down and out
(guitar solo)
You got a lot of nerve
Now I'll show a little backbone why don't you
I'm looking for some back and forth with you
Are you feeling the same as I do?
Now and, now and then
I'm looking for some back and forth with you
Are you feeling the same as I do?
Now and, now and then
I'm looking for some back and forth with you
Are you feeling the same as I do?
Down and out
08. MATTER OF TIME
Let's change the subject to someone else
You know lately I've been subject to change
Normally I reel in the strange
Hangovers, I'm older
You're one to talk the heart is a clock
Just like a bomb it keeps on ticking away
Counting down to detonate
You will need
An army
To summon me
It doesn't matter much to me
If it doesn't matter much to you (ooh)
It doesn't matter much to me
If it doesn't matter much to you
It's just a matter of time before, before
It's just a matter of time before, before
And though I hate to rewind before, before
It's just a matter of time
My past is getting us nowhere fast
I was never one for taking things slow
Nowhere seems like somewhere to go
Come over and over
Doing my time for line after line
When will I learn this sing these crimes to myself?
Prisoners to share a cell with
I'm holding
Still holding
Holding it well
It doesn't matter much to me
If it doesn't matter much to you (ooh)
It doesn't matter much to me
If it doesn't matter much to you
It's just a matter of time before, before
It's just a matter of time before, before
And though I hate to remind before, before
It's just a matter of time
Where the hell were you? (ooh)
Where the hell were you? (ooh)
Where the hell were you?
It's just a matter of time before, before
It's just a matter of time before, before
And though I hate to rewind before, before
It's just a matter of time
What does it matter now?
What does it matter now?
What does it matter now?
What does it matter now?
It's just a matter of time
Time
09. MISS THE MISERY
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
Coming down on you
Like a cold sky raining under a burning moon
Been waiting all your life your wish is coming true
Bless your heart for beating me right out of you
Miss the misery
Need a reason for a change
Need a reason to explain
So turn it on again
Don't change your mind
You're wasting light
Get in and let's
Go, oh, oh, oh
Go, oh, oh, oh
What a nice long leash, what a nice tight noose
Never worked for me, but sure would look good on you
Been waiting all your life your wish is coming true
Bless your heart for beating me right out of you
Miss the misery
Need a reason for a change
Need a reason to refrain
So turn it on again
Don't change your mind
You're wasting light
Get in and let's
Go, oh, oh, oh
Go, oh, oh, oh
Miss the misery
Gimme reason for a change
Miss the misery
Gimme reason to refrain
Miss your misery today
Miss your misery today
Come on and turn it on for me
Don't change your mind
You're wasting light
Don't make this right
Don't make this right
Get in and let's
Go, oh, oh, oh
Go, oh, oh, oh
10. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
I should have known that it would end this way
I should have known there was no other way
Didn't hear your warning
Damn my heart gone there
I should have known
Look at the shape you're in
I should have known
But I don't write in
One thing is for certain
As I'm standing here
I should have known
Lay your hands in mine
Heal me one last time
Though I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt
I should have known
I was inside of you
I should have known
There was that side of you
Came without a warning
Caught me unaware
I should have known
I've been here before
I should have known
Don't want it anymore
One thing is for certain
I'm still standing here
I should have known
Lay your hands in mine
Heal me one last time
Though I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt
No I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt
I should have known
Maybe you was right
Didn't want a fight
I should have known
Couldn't read the signs
Couldn't see the lie
I should have known
Though I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt
Though I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt
No I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt
I should have known
11. WALK
A million miles away
Your signal in the distance
To whom it may concern
I think I lost my way
Gettin good at startin' over
Every time that I return
I'm learning to walk again
I believe I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?
I'm learning to talk again
Can't you see I've waited long enough?
Where do I begin?
Do you remember the days?
We'd build these paper mountains
Then sat and watched them burn
I think I found my place
Can't you feel it growing stronger?
Little conquerors
I'm learning to walk again
I believe I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?
I'm learning to talk again
I believe I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?
Now
For the very first time
Don't you pay no mind
Set me free, again
You keep alive a moment at a time
The still inside, a whisper to a riot
The sacrifice, the knowing to survive
The first decline, another state of mind
I'm on my knees, I'm praying for a sign
Forever, whenever
I never wanna die
I never wanna die
I never wanna die
I'm on my knees
I never wanna die
I'm dancing on my grave
I'm running through the fire
Forever, whenever
I never wanna die
I never wanna leave
I'll never say goodbye
Forever, whenever
Forever, whenever
I'm learning to walk again
I believe I've waited long enough
Where do I begin?
I'm learning to talk again
Can't you see I've waited long enough?
Where do I begin?
I'm learning to walk again
I believe I've waited long enough
I'm learning to talk again
Can't you see I've waited long enough?
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