Did you ever wonder how I fell in love with the Foo Fighters? No? Hey, that wasn't very nice. You were supposed to humor me into telling you the story but I will not humor you but obeying your wish.
Even though I was somewhat obsessed with Nirvana growing up, I was still a little hesitant, after the death of Kurt Cobain, when Dave Grohl started a new band. In a sense, I felt that I should be loyal and give it a shot, but at the same time I wasn't really getting the music. It was loud, I couldn't understand the lyrics and frankly, it wasn't Kurt Cobain. I tried, I gave it a shot but in the end, I felt that it was only going to be a time listen. It wasn't until I was at my friend Chris' apartment. He had a vinyl version of their single "Big Me." To me, this was something that I had never heard of before. It's a single of a c.d. that is on the record but it was released on it’s own with different songs. This is crazy talk but he flipped out over to side B and played "How I Miss You."
As a youth, wondering about love, true love, relationships, this song really grabbed on to my heart and squeezed the fuck out of it. The chords to the song, the lyrics, are not very complicated. In fact, it's pretty simple but there is something about it that is so strong. Simplicity can be the most complicate thing.
This is when I really wish that I could post songs on this because me talking about it and posting the lyrics isn't giving it justice. If you have ITunes, Limewire or if I have even burned you a version of the "This Will Foo You Up" or "Bi-Polar: Drunken Sad Songs," I have put this song on it. This is the state I am in right now and though I know it won’t slow me down, it reminds me that I am not alone, that someone else in their life have felt the same way.
How I Miss You
How I miss you
How I miss you
How I miss you
I should never call
How I hope that you still miss me
Did I lose you?
Did I lose you?
Did I lose you?
Somewhere down the line
Hide & seeks alright if I find
Do you miss me
Like I miss you
If you miss me,
Never go away
Hopefully, you’ll come and stay someday
If you’re leaving,
Come back soon
Thats not easy to say
I will wait here,
Dream of you
All alone as I awake
5 comments:
"There goes my Hero/Watch him as he goes..."
"It's time like these you learn to live again..."
It took me awhile, but now I understand.
Sometimes that's all it takes...
My interest of the Foo came from you Dan, I cannot lie. I bought their first album and wasn't really into it. but after seeing them live, I will never turn my back on the Foo. Plus, you made me "for a foo time, call dan" album, it rocks but I don't think it has, How I miss you.
I can't help talking about the Foo Fighters. I think when I get in a funk I talk about the band because I really enjoy the music...that's all I can really explain.
rock paper scissors
"it's rock paper scissors as to whether
i will get over you at all
it's hand against hand and both hands are mine
it's standing in a circular line
which is not to say that i'm not also happy
a happy meal with a surprise inside
surprise surprise here's another bright light in your eyes
exposing all the stuff you're not calculating enough to hide
this melancholy that i carry makes me feel so grown up
at my kitchen table doing shots of resignation
i never thought i'd see the day when i would say i give up
and break the stallions of my wildest expectations
i do not want to know you this way
surrounded by so much pain
but how am i supposed to let go of you this way
like a bird into the sky of my brain?
i think i could accept all these dark colors
as just part of some bigger color scheme
if it wasn't for that drippy string quartet of sadness
underscoring each smiling scene
desire drags me right out of myself
a gas-soaked rope tied to a piece of coal
and i'm getting pretty good at looking at the bright side
while the flames rip along the sand and swallow me whole..."
-ani difranco
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