Foo Fighters – Gimme Stitches

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I can be your right of way
So we can get out of here
I've always been the one
Who runs from everyone
Cos everyone's just too weird

Sink with someone tied to me
I'm making you volunteer
Another one has come and gone
They crawl along
Make them disappear

Dress me up in stitches
It's now or never
Tired of wearing black and blue
Dress me up in stitches
It's now or never
Tired of wearing black and blue
Dying to get my blood on you
Blood on you

Take another stab at me
I promise in time I'll heal
But yesterday went on and on a bit too long
I waited out on high street
There's nothing to find out here
Another day has come and gone
They crawl along
Wasting all these years

Dress me up in stitches
It's now or never
Tired of wearing black and blue
Dress me up in stitches
It's now or never
Tired of wearing black and blue
Dying to get my blood on you
Blood on you

How can you go on
When you're murdering someone
Killing me like you do

Gimme stitches
Now or never

Before I get my blood on you

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Lyrics submitted by me109cito

Track duration: 03:42

"Gimme Stitches" as written by Taylor Hawkins, David Eric Grohl, Nate Mendel

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., EMI Music Publishing

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    Song Meaning:This song is about, and I quote, 'Gimme Stitches is sorta a song about a relationship that is dysfunctional and two people that can't get enough of hurting each other or making each other crazy. Wanting to escape with someone who you know ultimately is just gonna chop you into bits.' From the Foo Fighters- TINLTL Documentary from 1999.
    Flag ramen4everon August 16, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation:Hey Guys! I think it means something else, I think he's talking not about being in one relationship but many, and the fact that he's always whisking someone away only to find himself "battered and blue" afterwards, and the stitches resemble healing the patches in his heart left by each and every girl he's been with
    Flag snowydreadon February 02, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:WOW OMG that does sound like ride by foghat! omg im mixing those two songs together now.
    Flag XDanny_TorrenceXon September 01, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:WOW OMG that does sound like ride by foghat! omg im mixing those two songs together now.
    Flag XDanny_TorrenceXon September 01, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i get the impression this is a song about a guy who's fed up of getting the crap beat out of him and can't take it anymore, so he's out for revenge
    Flag midnight-rambleron March 30, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Yo, aicdirt, this song ans "ride" are just in the same key and the riffes start on the same note.
    Flag homy9015on November 23, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Here's what Dave said it was about...

    "'Gimme Stitches' is sort of a song about a relationship that's dysfunctional, and two people who can't get enough of hurting each other and making each other crazy."
    Flag intothegrinder2on June 03, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:This song is about Marijuana. 'Dress me up in stiches' means taking a hit from a water bong.
    Flag jek21on April 10, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:does intro to this song sound alike like 'slow ride' by foghat to anyone else?
    Flag aicdirt27on December 04, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:what about when he sayd dying to get my blood on you?? i was thinking that meant he believed she would end up feeling bad for what she's doing to him, like a guilt trip.
    Flag frostedflakes098on October 15, 2004   Link

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