Foo Fighters - The Pretender Lyrics

Foo Fighters Lyrics

"The Pretender"

Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark
And so it all began

Send in your skeletons
Sing as their bones go marching in again
They need you buried deep
The secrets that you keep are at the ready
Are you ready?
I'm finished making sense
Done pleading ignorance, that whole defense
Spinning infinity, boy
The wheel is spinning me
It's never-ending, never-ending
Same old story

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

In time or so I'm told
I'm just another soul for sale, oh well
The page is out of print
We are not permanent, we're
Temporary, temporary
Same old story

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?

I'm the voice inside your head
You refuse to hear
I'm the face that you have to face
Mirroring your stare
I'm what's left
I'm what's right
I'm the enemy
I'm the hand that'll take you down
Bring you to your knees
So who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?

Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?
(Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
(You know they all)
You're the pretender
(Pretend)
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
(Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
(You know they all)
You're the pretender
(Pretend)
What if I say I will never surrender?
So who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?

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Writer(s): Christopher Shiflett, Oliver Hawkins, David Grohl, Nathan Mendel

The first single from the album. It is one of the band's most successful songs reaching the number 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Dave Grohl said about this song, "A stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song, with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it."

This song had a working title "Silver Heart" and was much slower in tempo. It wasn't planned to be included in the album. Dave Grohl told XFM, "That song didn't happen until later on in the session. We didn't go into making the record with that song and it happened after we recorded a lot of stuff."

The song won the Best Hard Rock Performance, and the album won the Best Rock Album awards at the Grammy ceremony in 2008.

album: "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" (2007)

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace album cover

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(Japanese Bonus Track)

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