What do you think All My Life means?

Foo Fighters: All My Life Meaning

Tagged: Sex [suggest]
Album cover for All My Life album cover

Song Released: 2002


All My Life Lyrics

All my life I’ve been searching for somethin’
Somethin’ never comes, never leads to nothin’
Nothin’ satisfies, but I’m gettin’ close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope

All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around, and...

  1. anonymous
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    May 23rd 2011 !⃝

    I believe all are potentially true. However I think its general for a demon looking to poses a human. Never leads to nothin means that once the demon finishes using a human it didn't benefit him in any way except leading the human to destruction and death. Then he goes and does the same thing to the next sinful human. Hidden up my sleave to me is talking about the tricks they do to humans to allure them to sin.. because they can only poses sinful hearts. So if a person slits their wrist a masocism demon applies. A sexual feind attracts a nympho demon. Listen to it from this perspective.. "will I find a beleiver? Another one to deceive." "if I get any closer and If you let me inside" I love it but I hate the taste is the human saying its a love hate feeling with his demon

  2. anonymous
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    Mar 20th 2011 !⃝

    oyu guys are so sick! this song is about deception, is about going from one relationship to another void to void, to ultimate find that somene that fill the void... that does not exists.

  3. anonymous
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    Feb 3rd 2011 !⃝

    Even though I agree in many points with the interpretation of the first place (anonymous post, at Jun 20th 2008, 23:33) when he/she says it's about a nymphomaniac man, I don't really think he only manipulates women by making them believe there's something more then just sex between them. Verses like the following:

    "Leaves me with the feelin’ that I fear the most
    Feel it come to life when I see your ghost

    Calm down, don’t you resist
    Your such a delicate wrist
    And if I give it a twist
    Somethin’ to hold when I lose my grip"

    Seem pretty clear to me that he is raping the women he deceives. He very likely hurts them physically or kill them, eventually. It would, at least, explain why it "Leaves me with the feelin’ that I fear the most", the weight over his shoulders for knowing he's doing something wrong, but he just feels so alive when doing it over and over, he just can't resist! He fears, and thrills with the emotion of having done such thing to someone else, like an addiction to that moment... the girl, the (forced) sex, her struggle, the violence and death.

    "Feel it come alive when I see your ghost" would then complete this meaning, like if he was trying to explain to his victim that she would be able to experience this feeling "that I fear the most", right at the moment her life would be fading away; the moment his satisfaction would reach its apex.

    So, this man is not only a nymphomaniac, he is a psychopath, unable of experiencing sorrow or pain for his victims, and letting his impulses going out of control, at the need and search of something to make him feel alive, excited.

    "Hey, don’t let it go to waste
    I love it but , I hate that taste
    Weight keeping me down"

  4. Deana126
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    Aug 15th 2010 !⃝

    I think, like some here, that the song is about his love and hate to his sex addiction and the games that he play with women to get it from them. But Xerodout's interpretation is concise also. I never thought of it that way(prob becuz I do believe in God). Songs like this one is timeless because people can relate to them in their own special way. That's the beauty of music.

  5. Xerodout
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    Jun 1st 2010 !⃝

    I really can't believe that no one has seen what I have in this song. I really believe that this song is about people blindly following religion and how he thinks its bullshit. Every lyric that I can fully decipher fits.
    "All my life I've been searching for something, something never comes never leads to nothing, nothing satisfies but I'm getting close, closer to the prize at the end of my rope." Someone follows religion there Whole life without any proof but they over look that thinking that they will make it to heaven when they die.

    "And if I give it a twist, something to hold when I lose my grip"
    Meaning when people are so stressed out or in trouble they convince themselve that "God" will take care of them.

    "I love it but I hate the taste"
    They love there following but they arent aloud to do anything fun.

    "will I find a believer, another one who believes, another one to deceve, over and over down on my knees"
    Thats pretty obvious to relate to religion. (sorry By the way I'm aagnostic and think religion is a cop out for people that don't want to question and find Actual answers)

    All night long I dream of the day
    When it comes around, and it's takin away
    Leaves me with the feelin that I feel the most
    Feel it come to life when I see your ghost
    And I'm Done, done; on to the next one
    Done, done, and I'm on to the next one

    Devote religious person wanting to be with god, and when they finally die and see the HOLY GHOST they start there next life. Bla bla bla

    I can clearly see the sex thing, but looking at the lyrics in a not such a way, it seems a lot more like about and against religion.

  6. anonymous
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    Sep 20th 2009 !⃝

    "I love it but I hate the taste"
    he loves eating pussy, but hates the taste

  7. anonymous
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    Aug 19th 2009 !⃝

    I think a lot of it has to go with him going down with a girl, especially the lines "I love it but I hate the taste" and this entire section

    "Will I find the believer
    Another one who believes
    Another one to deceive
    Over and over, down on my knees

    If I get any closer, I
    And if you open up wide
    And if you let me inside
    On and on, I've got nuthin' to hide"

  8. anonymous
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    Aug 5th 2009 !⃝

    Like the other interpretations here, I think this is about addictions, but unlike what the others are saying, I think it's not sex, but alchohol that he's addicted to. "I love it but I hate the taste" explains itself. And then, "done, done, on to the next one..." could mean that he can't stop when he starts drinking, or he just decides to drink a lot.

    Very similar to the other posts, but mainly just a different addiction.

  9. FreeCrack
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    Apr 13th 2009 !⃝

    It's about drugs without a doubt. I just dont know which one. I think tweak or smack. I don't see how anyone can get sex out of the song, it doesn't make sence. And you cant shoot up XTC.

    "One by one hidden up my sleeve" - - - refers to track marks

    "I love it but I hate the taste" - - - - refers to the "drip" you get when you snort a drug


    "Hey, don't let it go to waste" - - - is self explanatory.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  10. splitterung
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    Mar 4th 2009 !⃝

    I think this song is about Dave trying to best himself each time he writes a song, each time he does an album with the foo fighters or whatever other band he works with "done and I'm on to the next one" seems pretty clear to me that it's about him wanting to better himself and open himself up more to the listener with each new song and album.....what you reckon??

  11. anonymous
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    Feb 21st 2009 !⃝

    I think it's about shooting up a substance; speed, cocaine, or maybe heroin? Being on drugs you just search for that great high, closer to the prize at the end of the rope. Has been known to shoot when you use something to hold off your blood vessels like a belt rope whatever. when you get the drug it comes and goes. when it comes around its takinaway. doesn't have to be took but taking as in use. leaves with the feeling he feels the most feel it come to life when I see your ghost. I've known shooting when you register your blood as being either your soul/ghost and then shooting it. Which goes along with the calm down don't reisster something to hold when I lose my grip part.
    and its a dead give away "another reason to bleed" "one by one hidden up my sleeve" track marks.

  12. mbonnett2007
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    Jan 30th 2009 !⃝

    The song is about esctacy.

    for whoever has taken tabs, they know that they love it but they hate the taste

    it also make you want to express things you otherwise wouldnt;
    and if you open up wide, and if you let me inside on and on i got nothing to hide..

    then im done, done on to the next one, done, done on to the next one,done, done on to the next one,done, done on to the next one,done, done on to the next one,

    x not alchohal

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  13. foosrlush
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    Jan 17th 2009 !⃝

    Alright, here it goes.. Carl thinks it's about going down on a girl "I love it but, I hate that taste "

    I reckon it is sex, like says something like fisting a girl at one point in the song '"One by one, Hidden up my sleeve"

    our interpretation on all my life foo fighters// awesome song!! :P

  14. anonymous
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    Sep 24th 2008 !⃝

    I think that it is about him once having someone that he loved very passionately, and then she was taken away from him...maybe even died. This left him with an empty void that throughout the song he is trying to fill by sleeping with lots of women. If you have that idea in the back of your mind while you're reading it, it's pretty straight forward.

  15. anonymous
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    Jul 21st 2008 !⃝

    This song is about alcohol and some drug and suicide reference. one by one could be shots or drinks or it could be drugs. on to the next one could be the next shot or drink or to the next drug like a gateway drug then I think the wrist part is pretty obvious that when he says he wants to give it a twist which would be to destroy himself. The part where he is like I love it but I hate the taste referring to alcohol cause no one likes the taste of a shot... The part where its hidden up his sleeve could easily be heroin going up his sleeve... I think this song is about alcohol and drugs and possibly suicide but feel free to disagree




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