FOO FIGHTERS - SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

FOO FIGHTERS

SONGWRITERS: GROHL DAVID; MENDEL NATE; HAWKINS OLIVER TAYLOR; RUTHENBERG GEORG & SHIFLETT CHRIS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SONIC HIGHWAY

LABEL: ROSWELL RECORDS

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK

YEAR: 2014

 

           Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in 1994 in Seattle, Washington. The band 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. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, their first year of eligibility.

           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 álbum 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 in 2010.

       Sonic Highways is the eighth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on November 10, 2014, through Roswell and RCA Records. Similar to their previous album, Wasting Light(2011), it was produced by the band with Butch Vig. In writing the album's eight songs, singer and guitarist Dave Grohl traveled to eight cities across the United States to conduct interviews with musicians, recording engineers, record producers, and other individuals discussing each city's musical history, which he used as inspiration for the songs' lyrics. The band and Vig then traveled to a different recording location in each city to record the songs. Each track features contributions from one or more musicians with ties to that city's musical history. The process was filmed for a companion television series, Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, which was broadcast on HBO in the months surrounding the album's release.

Give me the flammable light

I'm cold as a match, ready to strike

So, here I go

 

Here lies a city on fire

Singing along

The arsonist choir

Now, here I go

 

It started with a spark

And burning to the dark

Now, here I go

 

There is a river I've found

Into the wild

Under the ground

So, here I go

 

A button on a string

And I heard everything

Now here I go

 

Oh, sweet ignition, be my fuse

You have no choice, you have to choose

Bid farewell to yesterday

Say goodbye, I'm on my way

 

But in the end, we all

Come from what's come before

So, here I go

 

Oh, sweet ignition, be my fuse

You have no choice, you have to choose

Bid farewell to yesterday

Say goodbye, I'm on my way

 

I threw it all away because

I had to be what never was

Been so hungry I could lie

Took my word, I took your wine

And held you in my bloody hands

 

These rattled bones and rubber bands

Washed them in the muddy water

Looking for a dime and found a quarter

But you can't make me change my name

You'll never make me change my name

 

Pay no mind, now, ain't that something?

Fuck it all, I came from nothing

 

I'm something from nothing

You are my fuse

 

I'm something from nothing

You are my fuse

It goes oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

 

Oh, oh, oh

It goes oh, oh, oh

Alright

 

No, you can't make me change my name

You'll never make me change my name

Pay no mind, now, ain't that something?

Fuck it all, I came from nothing

 

I'm something

From nothing

I'm something

From nothing.