"Everlong" is the second single released from Foo Fighters' second album The Colour and the Shape, released in 1997. The song was conceived when Dave Grohl returned home to Washington, D.C., following the initial recording...
Hello
I've waited here for you
Everlong
Tonight I throw myself in two
Out of the red
Out of her head she sang
Come down and waste away with me
Down with me
Slow, how you wanted it to be
I'm over my head
Out of her head she sang
And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
Breathe out
So I can breathe you in
Hold you in
And now
I know you've always been
Out of your head
Out of my head I sang
And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
And I wonder
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
I've waited here for you
Everlong
Tonight I throw myself in two
Out of the red
Out of her head she sang
Come down and waste away with me
Down with me
Slow, how you wanted it to be
I'm over my head
Out of her head she sang
And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
Breathe out
So I can breathe you in
Hold you in
And now
I know you've always been
Out of your head
Out of my head I sang
And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
And I wonder
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
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My husband and I chose the acoustic version of Everlong as our first dance. To us, this song is about true love.
"Hello, I've waiting her for you, Everlong" - You are the special one I've been waiting for.
"breathe out so I can breathe you in, hold you in" - being close, holding each other and/or be yourself around me, so I can cherish everything about you.
"Come down and waste away with me, Down with me" - we get caught up in life, come down from all the craziness and just enjoy 'us' with me
"the only thing I ever ask of you, gotta promise not to stop when I say when" - the only thing I want from you, is to never let me go. If I ever want to give up on us, don't let me.
"And I wonder, When I sing along with you, If everything could ever feel this real forever, If anything could ever be this good again" - Our relationship is so good right now, I can't imagine it could get any better.
It's beautiful!!
Could also be a reference to a red spotlight onstage. In & out of the red. She too is a performer. So the stanzas are about he & she. Of course what kind of performance are they involved in? Music? Love-making? Why not both? Just living.
The opening lyric:
Hello
I've waited here for you
Everlong
It touches the heart. He's been waiting for her all his life. And finally she arrived. (I suspect she got to him as fast as she could.)
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Funnily enough, abortion is another one I've seen come up seemingly out of nowhere.
There is nothing like new love, when everything in the world doesn't matter except the person you love. You wish that feeling could last forever. But like everything, it starts falling apart. That is why the song keeps iterating the moments when he felt rapturous and holds on to those moments, never letting them go, even when the time comes when letting go seems like the solution.
There is nothing like new love, when everything in the world doesn't matter except the person you love. You wish that feeling could last forever. But like everything, it starts falling apart. That is why the song keeps iterating the moments when he felt rapturous and holds on to those moments, never letting them go, even when the time comes when letting go seems like the solution.
"Out of the red, out of her head she sang" = She was bleeding (blood is red) and screaming.
"if anything could ever feel this good again" = Death can only be felt one time, the first and the last.
"Breathe out so I can breathe you in, hold you in"= Exhale so Death can suck the life out of you! :)
The blurry spoken bit of it makes me think of a suicidal person. I can always make out "I just want to sleep - permanently", meaning "I just want to die". It's a pretty complex song.