Foo Fighters – Lonely As You

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  My Interpretation:I actually thinks that when he sings this:
  
  "One more time for the last time
  One more time for release
  One more time for the last time
  Everyone wants to believe"
  
  He is reffering to drugs use, or possibly one last chance to love, since it's an usually thing in those cases.
  
  This line of interpretation is backed up by this:
  
  "Every now and then
  You're down and out my friend
  Down and out again
  Down and out again
  Down and out again
  But I'm done with you"
  
  Like the ups and down that came from those (Drugs or love).
  
  "What would I do?
  Lonely as you
  Pleasure or pain I can choose"
  
  The singer puts himself in the place of the friend (again, it can also be a lover hiding under the name of "friend"), trying to understand and feel what the other feel, trying to understand the reasons that friend have.
  
  You can actually find evidences all over the lyrics, just try and see by this interpretation.

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  General Comment:What would I do
  Lonely as you
  Pleasure or pain
  I can choose - I think he has a friend and he puts himself in his shoes. His friend must be lonely and he knows that his friend could choose pleasure or pain.
  
  Wake up
  You're dreaming
  I can't stand your screaming
  Drowning out these prayers
  Just some words without meaning - I'm not sure how it would go but his friend must've had it rough and apparently he doesn't have much faith in God or the power of prayer.
  
  Spare all the preaching
  My secret's worth keeping
  No one understands like I do - He understands his friend's situation but feels it is wise to keep his mouth shut probably because it would benefit no one to attempt and fail at explaining how his friend feels to other people (probably family or friends)
  
  Keep out of reach
  I'm your leading deletion
  Hide behind these masks
  Though they still see right through them - When he says leading deletion it makes me think that his friend is either dead or has disowned him and that he was very close (his leading) friend whom he left.
  
  Every now and then
  You're down and out my friend
  Down and out again
  Down and out again
  Down and out again
  But I'm down with you - He knows his friend is down and out but he understands him and so he says that he is right there with him.
  
  One more time for the last time
  One more time for release
  One more time for the last time
  Everyone wants to believe - Perhaps he's referring to prayer and saying that this is the last time his friend will try praying. Everyone wants to believe.
  
  Blame it on youth, all these years I've been losing
  Blame it on the past, it's the last place I knew you
  Blame all the children, their rage and ruin
  Blame it on the black and the blue - He is thinking about his friend who must be in his past now, either from dying or having disowned their friendship and how he's as lonely as his friend felt. He's trying to place the blame for what has made him feel as lonely as his friend felt?

  Flag singlebarrel94on July 12, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Haven't any of you read the Dark Tower Series. Foo Fighters love those books. It's about Roland. Read the books then listen to the song. A lot of their other songs are inspired by the books too.

  Flag child rolandon March 17, 2008   Link

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    Read through The Dark Tower series - Amazing work, I must say - but I'm not seeing the relation.

    Flag kelusterkon February 14, 2010  
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  General Comment:Strider, I seriously doubt this song is about masturbation...

  Flag T-CAP75on August 06, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:"One more time for release"...*raises eyebrow*
  "Every now and then, you're down and out my friend" - *eyebrow raised higher!*

  Flag strider3005on July 15, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:"One more time for the last time"...*raises eyebrow*
  "Every now and then, you're down and out my friend" - *eyebrow raised higher!*

  Flag strider3005on July 15, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:What would I do
  Lonely as you
  Pleasure or pain
  I can't choose
  
  He's been left alone. He's bored. What to do?
  - Pleasure = masturbation
  - Pain = self-harm
  
  Whether or not the rest of the song backs this up is unknown to me. I just heard the first verse and being a teenager that's the first thing that came to mind. =D

  Flag strider3005on July 15, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:great song best on the album, would have liked it even more if the guitar breaks at the end of the verses were slightly extended as they are some of the foos best. Love the slow, fast,slow,fast,fast style certainly in my top 5 foo songs of all time.

  Flag sivillaon December 21, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:i imagine that verse explains what has scarred him and caused him problems, he had a bad youth and it is still having an affect on him?

  Flag blackk_starron September 12, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:i agree with you blackk starr but it dosnt fit with this verse can u make sense of it?
  
  
  Blame it on youth, all these years I've been losing
  Blame it on the past, it's the last place I knew you
  Blame all the children, their rage and ruin
  Blame it on the black and the blue

  Flag joehon July 28, 2005   Link

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