Foo Fighters: Best of You Meaning
Song Released: 2004
Best of You Lyrics
I'm your fool
Everyone's got their chains to break
Holdin' you
Were you born to resist or be abused?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the...
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Confession,
I have never been a huge Foo fan but alas great music is the strongest weakness of my soul. Recently I have listened to a song named “best of you” by the Foo. There was a time not too far in the recent past that I felt like this applied from myself to the love of my life. The shallow mentality of ones self was that, I am the strong that resisted and not abused. By being strong I would set the example for others in my life. Mercifulness did not become me, no patience for the wrong or confused, live and consume or die and be consumed, no peace for the “weak”. Then enters “best of you” and suddenly I was not the dedicating but the dedicatee. I pictured that this song was the sum of the feeling of a person that in the ultimate ending of us was trying to get me to understand. That they needed a place to hang there head but only found a noose. That gave me something that I didn’t have, unconditional love and in return I gave them something that they could not use, sorrow. The pitiful illusion of sanity that I lived in at the time… how arrogant of one. Only the weak have no since of compassion and that is only true to my eyes now having traveled the road of loses. Eternal regret of what I was and did to the person that loved. To see the clarity of humanity now has coast me a love lost forever. To this I swear to the love lost, no matter of what creed, race, religion, or belief there will always be a place of comfort, to hang your head without judgment or discrimination, May I always have the strength to offer you shelter from the storm, and to wisdom to keep the fire alight to guide you threw the angriest of seas. Never again shall I turn a cold shoulder to those in need. Something that I needed to show to you without the sight to judge, Thank you Foo Fighters! I am not thanking God, Allah, Buddha, or any other supreme divinities for this new insight of humanity. I thank you. -
The song encourages everyone to give their best to someone even if they have been hurt in the past...they should not let that affect their future relationships by losing faith ...the mid verse
''I needed somewhere to hang my head
Without your noose
You gave me something that I didn’t have
But had no use
I was too weak to give in
Too strong to lose
My heart is under arrest again
But I break loose
My head is giving me life or death
But I can’t choose
I swear I’ll never give in
No, I refuse''
...describes the hurt and eventual conclusion of not letting it damage them emotionally...and this one
'' I've got another confession my friend
I’m no fool
I’m getting tired of starting again
Somewhere new''
...describes his decision to settle with one person to whom he/she have decided to give their best to. -
This song is not about kurt
Really go on you tube and look it up. Dave Grohl talks about Kurt in the box it will tell you everything...
But anyways this song to me is about a relationship that keeps going bad and its starts again again all the time and is never really in a good place because the girl or guy is always getting taken advantage of the person tries their hardest to satisfy him or her but never gets anything in return or she later forgets about it.
This song is quite sad... I also the tone of his voice is angry hurt and almost pleading to this person and when dave says is someone getting the best of you?
I think he is just basically saying I'm giving my best to you why can't you give your best to me? -
I think this is about depression or anger or some other mental problem along the lines
Has someone taken your faith?
Its real, the pain you feel
You trust, you must
Confess -
I've always felt the song was about the fear of losing the ability to identify your own emotions as genuine or manufactured - the numbness that comes from time and a battle weary heart.
The song (confession) is to himself. He's yelling at himself, through the pain of tired bitterness and self loathing (abuse). He's trying to shock his heart into feeling new again. It's pretty powerful stuff. -
FFS Why is it that some people thinks that it is about Kurt?
BTW..all Kurt's songs were about Dave.. -
I was in the situation of the song so I know what it's about
It's about a man who, at te beginning can't get over this girl, but her new boyfriend is taking advantage of her, getting the best of her. At the end he realizes she was manipulating him, and gets over her -
I feel that this song is about the artist in his own life and how people are constantly getting the best of him, meaning they were taking advantage of him, and it was killing him (I needed somewhere to hang my head without your noose.) Finally, he "grew some stones," so to speak, and broke the chains holding his heart and his passion prisoner. Whether the person or people taking advantage of him is a girl or family or friends or fans I'm not sure, but I think this song is saying someone was making him feel a prisoner in his emotions and he finally broke free from that prison.
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Well in my own opinion when I first heard the song I thought it was about being with someone you didn't really take notice of, you didn't give them the care and attention they needed, now they're gone you realised they've moved on to someone else who is getting the best of them.
Another thing I feel it could be about that you really cared about this person but you split up and they moved onto some new but they are abusing them, and you can't help them because they won't leave the guy and so you try but it doesn't help.
Also the first few verses could be about Kurt Cobain, when he says "You gave me something that I can't have," because he's gone. -
Well I believe that personally Dave Grohl left it for people to think what they want deliberately
But I believe it is wrote about Kurt Cobain because of all the shit about his faith and confessing shit
He actually at one point was against drugs and heroin and shit and ended up a druggy himself. Someone took his faith against drugs away.
Cobain was also confessing that he would commit suicide at one point.
Dave Grohl also has a part of the song dedicated to himself too. "I'm getting tired of starting again" think of how many bands and shit Dave Grohl has had to move between for ages. He may just be getting frustrated of starting again with a different band all the time -
Ummm...I just want to point out that the album's title means in the the honor of John Kerry and this song has a kind of political meaning. Of course like all good songs it can and should be left up to individual interpretations.
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The song is about Kurt Cobain, and how Dave is sad about it, and about Kurt's own sufferings.
Dave could quite see how the make the live go on after Kurt's death (I'm getting tired of starting again, somewhere new). Kurt had a hard emotional time, close to his dead. His marriage with Courtney ended up tragically, his son was taken away with him because Kurt was to drug addicted. The fame made Kurt crazy, and he couldn't handle all of that press the global media. This song is not about Kurt's suicide or if he was killed. It's about Dave's sorrow, and about Kurt Cobain. Kurt's way to express his feelings was by the music, but did anyone quite understand him, was anyone really knowing how Kurt was like? Did anyone knew how good a person he was, did nobody get "The best of You".... In loving memories of Kurt Cobain -
This song is DEFINITELY (partly) about Kurt Cobain. Or links to that effect. Obviously the undertones of love and broken hearts also ring through in it, but as a song writer you have different parts of one song sometimes that relate to different moments, but the emotional product is the same. Love, broken hearts, Kurt cobain...all simular lines of thought.
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