"Everlong" lyrics

"Everlong"

Hello
I've waited here for you
Everlong
Tonight
I throw myself into
And 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 gotta 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 gotta promise not to stop when I say when she sang

[Whisper:]
So, Dad would take the Sundays off.
And that's the only time he could ever get any rest.
And so, because we were loud on Sundays, he'd make us hold his construction boots over our head, 'til we'd sleep.
And they were really heavy boots and I used to say, "Dad, come on, please."
And like start crying, 'cause they're too heavy.

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


Thanks to Atharva, YechiamTK, Miles Hemingway, Bob Goudreau, Kaitlyn F. for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): David Eric Grohl
Dave Grohl wrote this song during a difficult period in his life when he just got divorced. Besides, the Foo Fighters was on a brink of split-up with two other members contemplating to quit the band. This ballad was born when he returned home to Virginia for Christmas 1996 and wrote down the lyrics about falling in love with a new woman.
The "whisper" during the instrumental break of this song comprises three overlaid voices: Dave Grohl reading out of an instruction manual, the second is a love letter, and the last one is a story about one of the studio technician's father.
David Letterman liked this song very much and when he returned to his show after the heart surgery, he invited the band to perform on the 21st of February 2000. They needed to break the tour in order to do so, but made the appearance. When Letterman did his final show on the 20th of May 2015, Foo Fighters played this song to close it out.
The music video for this song features Dave Grohl as a superhero who has giant hands. Michel Gondry, the director of the video, used to have dreams where his hand grew to giant size. Taylor Hawkins plays drums in the video, although Dave Grohl plays them on the album version of the song because Hawkins wasn't in the band at the time.
This song was used in the TV show "Friends" at the end of the episode "The One With Chandler And Monica's Wedding" right after Monica and Chandler were married. This version wasn't played by The Foo Fighters, but by a string quartet.
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