All My Life - Foo Fighters

Artist: Foo Fighters
Song: All My Life
Year: 2002
Album: One By One

After a string of singles that were middle of the road type crowd pleasers, Dave Grohl came back with this rocking single to kick off the One By One album. With that he brought me back into the fold. There wasn't anything wrong with the mainstream singles that Foo Fighters were churning out, but the rocking of the first album is what hooked me.

They started to stray from that formula on the second album, but it worked really well for that project. The Colour And The Shape is probably my favorite Foo Fighters album, as a whole album. One By One was a return of sorts, to that initial fury.

The one thing that instantly hooked me on this song is something that doesn't actually exist. I misheard the lyrics during my first few listens. At the end of the song, when Dave is screaming, it sounded like he said, "Dead, dead, and I'm on to the next." Instead of "dead", Dave was screaming "done." That works too, but I will always feel partial to my initial reaction.

"All My Life" is a return to glory and a breakaway of the past. When Nirvana released their last single in 2002, "All My Life" knocked it off the top of the charts. While Nirvana's single was released at the wrong time, the Foo Fighters single was released right on time.

Lyrics:
All my life I've been searching for something
Something never comes never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around then it's taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
The feeling comes to life when I see your ghost

Come down don't you resist
You have such a delicate wrist
And if I give it a twist
Something to hold when I lose my breath
Will I find something in that
So give me just what I need
Another reason to bleed
ONE BY ONE hidden up my sleeve
ONE BY ONE hidden up my sleeve

Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]

Will I find a believer
Another one who believes
Another one to deceive
Over and over down on my knees
If I get any closer
And if you open up wide
And if you let me inside
On and on I've got nothing to hide
On and on I've got nothing to hide

Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]

All my life I've been searching for something
Something never comes never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around then it's taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
The feeling comes to life when I see your ghost

And I'm done, done and I'm on to the next one
[x8, then x4 but yelling]

Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]

[yelling]
Done done and on to the next one
Done I'm done and I'm
On to the next.