what happened to the foo fighters? there new album just seems like the music is on their to please all the teeny bopper crowd, not their original style of music. 'In Your Honour' is by far the worst album they have made.

what happened to the foo fighters? there new album just seems like the music is on their to please all the teeny bopper crowd, not their original style of music. 'In Your Honour' is by far the worst album they have made.

is someone getting the best of you?

are offering that someone in need of love etc. you love? is someone perceiving you have great things on you and is enjoying them? or are they abusing of the beautiful things on you?

juan pablo
cochabamba - bolivia

This song to me is about someone getting the better of the muse for this song, getting to them, getting under thier skin " Has someone taken you faith? its real, the pain you feel, you trust you must confess.." its about people playing fucked up games behind others backs for which i am guilty of, i can relate an awful lots but it is too sided.. for while i didn't cheat.. i gave my heart to someone else when i never really gave it to the person i gave up.. and then to top it off the other turned out they had a girlfriend anyway.. so shit on me and call it karma.. coz he didn't give her up.. boo

i can relate.... how did dave grohl manage to keep his voice so good after this song? noh?

i think this song is about madness.the thought that someone u used to be with treats better,loves more an other person now,than he loved u.and doesn`t this idea drive you fockin` mad?I mean,someyimes is just not right:you give yourself to someone and he just doesn`t give much of a damn about this...eventually you`ll fuck up everything and be totally careless.

this song could be interpeted in a number of different ways depending on circumstances. For instance, one way could be that this person is inlove with someone, but that someone left the person and went on to someone new, but still led the orignal one on. Eventually the person gives up and isnt that someone's fool anymore, but cant move on because the someone has gotten the best of them.

i dissagree with most of you i beleave the about soneone getting sexuliy abused

I beg to differ with most of the posts on here. Mind you a agreed with the idea of the character singing being hurt and in a somewhat broken relationship that they felt trapped in. Then I heard my sister's interpritation and it blew me away.

First off, let's take into acount what kind of meanings Grohl's songs have. He likes to be playfully crative with how blunt they can be (see "All My Life"). He is usually explicit about voice changes (See "Everlong"). Also, he loves to sing like characters with interesting perspectives (see "Monkeywrench").

So, what happens when we take the lyrics all too litterally and liniarly? Well, a total contradiction. But just the contradiction, my sister pointed out, that was to be expected of the steriotypical bull-headed male (See the anime "Inuyasha" to use her example). It seems to me, Grohl might have known someone who was actually like this or just wanted to play with the "playa" persona and that he was funny enough to justify giving us a peek inside his head as he struggles with his unmanly feelings for the girl he dumped. So without further adue, let us review:


>I’ve got another confession to make
>I’m your fool
he's treating his passion for his woman like a thorny crown, so to speek
>Everyone’s got their chains to break
>Holdin’ you
his chain to break is holding onto her

>Were you born to resist or be abused?
now he addresses her directly, sepperating people into two goups: those who won't get tied down (like him), and those who are abused (presumably like her)
>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
and if she is the type to be abused, is someone taking advantage of her now that he's left her...managing to speak down to her and kinda sounding concerned all at once

>Are you gone and onto someone new?
confirming the above, so have you found someone new yet?
>I needed somewhere to hang my head
>Without your noose
>You gave me something that I didn’t have
>But had no use
note, past tense, now he's explaining why he left, she was choking him with commitment, but his explaining so suddenly makes him sound just a tad guilty, even though he claims he had no use for the relationship with her
>I was too weak to give in
>Too strong to lose
here's the confession moment, and like the steriotypical macho man, blink and you'll miss it: he wasn't a big enough man to "give in" to her, and too strong to lose, sounds like our guy's pretty stuborn
>My heart is under arrest again
so now he's with some new girl, why is he bother singing this to the ex he broke up with
>But I break loose
and there's our answer, he's trying to come off like a player, but what he's really saying, is that he's going to be single again. odd thing to tell the ex you couldn't stand...
>My head is giving me life or death
>But I can’t choose
he sees commitment as death, but now he's actually considering it, this tells us a lot about why this song is set at this moment of his life
>I swear I’ll never give in
>I refuse
but just before he can commit, he reminds himself, he's one to "resist" not "be abused"

>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
and the concern goes back to his ex, can't get her out of his mind, mostly in terms of jealousy so far, masking it as concern, that someone else like him could come along and hurt her.
>Has someone taken your faith?
>Its real, the pain you feel
now he's gone and validated what he first put her down for, her "faith" in people, and in him which caused the "pain [she] feels"
>You trust, you must
>Confess
now he demands she give him his answer, is she with someone else, because if she is, he insists they'll only hurt her, the thing he ironically has already done
>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
>Oh...
>Oh...Oh...Oh...Oh...
yay vocal bridge

>Has someone taken your faith?
>Its real, the pain you feel
expanding on that "faith" of hers
>The life, the love
it's in how she lives, her faith in true love
>You die to heal
remember, "death" above was how he thought of commitment, but she needs it to heal, which seems so irrational to him
>The hope that starts
>The broken hearts
everything entailed in the process, her hope in him and his shattering it, the same thing he insistswill happen with anyone else she gets with
>You trust, you must
>Confess
still, for someone who doesn't care about her he's pretty concerned about her being hurt again
>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
but how can he take her back, he certainly can't admit that he was wrong, but he's going insane with the mere thought she could be "taken advantage of" by someone else

>I’ve got another confession my friend
>I'm no fool
and now we come full circle, from the break up, to the reconsiliation
>I’m getting tired of starting again
>Somewhere new
he's sick of going through the charade all the time, maybe it's time he just picked someone...

>Were you born to resist or be abused?
that's right, she's the weak one who's going to get abused unless he helps her
>I swear I’ll never give in
>I refuse
and there he is being the strong one, strong enough to protect her if they got back together, and he'd still be a free man, just staying with her because he's just too bored of moving on (is this guy full of it, or what?)

>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
>Has someone taken your faith?
>Its real, the pain you feel
>You trust, you must
>Confess
>Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the >best of you?
the obligitory last chorus leaving open the question translating to "so, are you with anyone?" it's far from an appology, but from a character like this, it's closer than we might expect to get.

>Oh...

and there's my presentation of me sister's interpretation, please consider it. if you have any questions or comments, just send me an e-mail.

-David North

i sorta wonder if they repeat "the best" so many times because they want to send across more than one meaning with "is someone getting the best of you?". One likely meaning is that he's talking to his gf, and some other guy is receiving all the chick's affection. Or he could be halfway addressing the audience, as a way to talk about himself (like what someone might do when he says to a bud (maybe over a Bud) something starting with "do you know what it feels like to"). That is, he's also saying that the chick is getting the best of the speaker in that she's cheating on him.
1 other thing: in the beginning confession he's clearly talking to she for whom he is a fool, and then when that returns he's talking to that bud of his... i think i had a further point to make but i need to eat now

There are a couple of areas which i'm uncertain about in this song. I'm unsure about the audience in lines like "were you born to resist"... my guess is he's asking the aforementioned bud (you can also think of this POV as the listener who buys the CD or whatever); but there's also the possibility that he's talking to his girl here.
Then in the opening stanza: "every1s got their chains to break holdin you"-- the most natural assumption would be that by "you" he means "them" (or conversely means "you've all got your chains"). Alternatively though, he could be sayin that a buncha ppl have chains on the girl... like maybe they have bonds with her that turn out to be restricting or hurtful, especially for her...idk

i like the stanza with "too weak to give in, to strong to lose", the idea that his inability to separate himself from her is both a point of strength and weakness. Talking about his heart under arrest and breaking loose, i think he means that he sometimes breaks loose (like it's an ongoing, rollercoaster kind of affair)...continuing the dialogue of internal conflict. And "my head is giving me life or death, but i can't choose" is to highlight the vastness of the described conflict. The last 2 lines "I swear I'll never resist-- i refuse" emphasizes that while he's not moving either direction, it's not for a lack of emotion, but the poisonous concentration and explosive quantity of it.

hey guys , wht do you think about the first FF album???
in my opinion it isnt as good as the others..... i only like this is a call , big me and for all the cows.

ive read that dave did it all by himself , is that true??

this one of the best rock songs these days apart from green day

fuck green day

fuck green day

ok fair enough, B-i-a-t-c-h

An absolutely superb song which came out just when I was taking my GCSEs last year. I bought the album and listened to it whilst doing revision. These days I'm always asking myself "Is someone getting the best of you?" which I think they should be, no matter who they are.

My idea on this song will undoubtledy be unpopular. But all of the lyrics fit this idea perfectly.

Take the idea that this is about politics and mostly about war. Think of Iraq or Afghanistan and all of the pain surrounding these events for those living in the countries.

The song is sung with the the type of passion that surrounds some of the heights of politics and protests against events and so on.

For example, if you get into the mindset of the ''suicide bomber'', then every lyric, every word fits the thoughts. There are mentions of dying for your cause.

This is not about sexuality at all to me. It's about feelings of pain and horror when there is country running its foreign policy all over the world.

The fact that it was 2005 after many events surrounding the Iraq war ans so on make this an even more potent explanation.

''Has someone taken your faith?'' Like the way Islam (one example) has been shown and the offensive Mohammed cartoons.

''The pain is real'' --- is almost a wake up call to the other countries, that they do feel pain and the so called freedom is useless ''had no use''.

Its like screaming that it's not only you who lose lives, that they are not some uncharacterically evil group. This is a political song. One for the poor, for those subjected to recent wars.

This won't be a popular theory, but it's far more meaningful that teenage sexuality. It's life and death. It's hope and dreams and never giving in, no matter how far they push you.

The song is almost like someone in a country starting these wars realising what's happened and saying to the people they understand. This is a song for the powerless in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Not many will like this song meaning, but if you like trash, then go along with the others, but if you like something a bit more raw and not pretentious then you'd prefer this meaning.

Kick ass song!
Fool of emotions and hate!
The story is pretty clear i think...
She Hates me by Puddle of Mudd is the same kinda song...

what? OMG! although i like "she hates me" too, but that was written illiterate. But look at this one!

the popularity of "she hates me" is for being Vulgar, but just look at some of it's lyrics. no need to talk anymore:

Has someone taken your faith?
Its real, the pain you feel
The life, the love
You die to heal
The hope that starts
The broken hearts
You trust, you must
Confess

This song is amazing..I love it

well.. i meant the HATE in the song...
not the story...;-) or what it is about..

This song is about being used and abused. You give someone everything you have to offer, you open yourself up to them, you’re there for them but they only use what you’ve given when they need it and when they’re done with it, they throw it all back in your face.

Its also about people who stop you achieveing what you believe you can. Its about people who discourage you, don’t believe in you and make you feel worthless. These people get ‘the best of you’, they can ruin you, but this song is about fighting back and breaking yourself free from their grip.

Great line to people who go through this kind of shit - ‘were you born to resist or be abused? I swear I’ll never give in I refuse’.

i absolutely love this song. i can realate to each and every lyric and the video is great.

i esp. love "the hope that starts the broken hearts". it really hits me where it hurts......ya kno

"I was too weak to give in
Too strong to lose"

This is my favorite line in the entire song. :3

To thereisonlytruth: I can't fully agree. I never believe posts like that. =/ It may fit, yes, and I agree entirely that it is extremely similar--but a lot of love songs have the possibility to fit the war, if only because the US and Iraq actually are currently going through an "abusive relationship" (the US being the abuser).

bah...that probably doesn't make much sense. Forgive me XD;;