THE PRETENDER
FOO FIGHTERS
SONGWRITER: GROHL DAVID ERIC;
MENDEL NATE; SHIFLETT CHRISTOPHER A & HAWKINS OLIVER TAYLOR
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ECHOES,
SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE
LABEL: ROSWELL
RECORDS
GENRE: HARD ROCK
YEAR: 2007
Foo Fighters
is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1994. It was founded by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the
dissolution of Nirvana after the suicide
of Kurt Cobain.
The group took its name from "foo fighter", a nickname coined by Allied
aircraft pilots for UFOs and
other aerial phenomena. Over the course of their career, Foo Fighters have won
12 Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album
four times.
Prior to the
release of Foo Fighters' 1995 debut álbum Foo
Fighters, which
featured Grohl as the only official member, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear. The band began with performances in Portland, Oregon. Goldsmith quit during the recording of their
second album, The Colour and the Shape(1997); most of the drum parts were re-recorded by
Grohl. Smear departed soon afterward but appeared as a guest
with the band frequently from 2005; he rejoined the band in 2010.
Smear and
Goldsmith were replaced by Franz Stahl and Taylor Hawkins, respectively, although Stahl was fired before
the recording of the group's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose(1999). The band briefly continued as a trio until Chris Shiflett joined on guitar after the
completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band released its fourth
album, One by One,
in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and heavier material. Foo
Fighters released their sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, in 2007.
The band's
seventh studio album, Wasting Light, produced by Butch Vig, was released in 2011, in which Smear returned
as a full member. In November 2014, the band's eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, was released as an accompanying soundtrack to
the Grohl-directed 2014 miniseries of the same name. On September 15,
2017, the band released their ninth studio album, Concrete and Gold, which became their second to reach number one
in the United States and was the band's first studio album to feature longtime
session and touring keyboardist Rami Jaffee as a full member. In February 2021,
the band released its tenth album, Medicine
at Midnight,
and in October will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in their first year of eligibility.
"The
Pretender" is a song by the American alternative rock band Foo Fighters. It was the first single from the group's 2007
album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. It is one of Foo Fighters' most successful
songs; peaking at number 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100(making it their third top 40 single), only
"Learn to Fly" and "Best of You" beat its position on the Billboard Hot
100.
Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark
And so it all began
Send in your
skeletons
Sing as their bones go marching in again
They need you buried deep
The secrets that you keep are ever ready
Are you ready?
I'm finished making sense
Done pleading ignorance
That old defense
Spinning infinity, boy
The wheel is spinning me
It's never-ending, never-ending
Same old story
What if I say I'm not
like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not
like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say that I never surrender?
In time, or so I'm told,
I'm just another soul for sale, oh well
The page is out of print
We are not permanent
We're temporary, temporary
Same old story
What if I say I'm not
like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not
like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
I'm the voice inside
your head you refuse to hear
I'm the face that you have to face mirrorin' your stare
I'm what's left; I'm what's right; I'm the enemy
I'm the hand that'll take you down and bring you to your knees
So, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend
What if I say I'm not
like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not
like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?
What if I say I'm not
like the others?
(Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
(You know they all)
You're the pretender
(Pretend)
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not
like the others?
(Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
(You know they all)
You're the pretender
(Pretend)
What if I say I will never surrender?
So, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
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