Foo Fighters: Learn to Fly Meaning

Song Released: 1999

Learn to Fly Lyrics

Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
Think I need a devil to help me get things right
Hook me up a new revolution
Cause this one is a lie
We sat around laughing and watched the last one die

And I'm looking to the...

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   DoomShroom

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   Apr 28th 2010 !⃝

   According to Dave Grohl, it's about looking for inspiration and things that make you feel alive, be they good or bad.
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   Jun 15th 2013 !⃝

   As a musician, I can relate this song to a lack of inspiration.
   
   Hes searching for his muse
   
   "Run and tell all of the angels
   This could take all night
   Think I need a devil to help me
   Get things right" - I can't write a thing, I Need inspiration
   
   Maybe the "Hook me up a new Revolution" part is talking about how he feels this genre, or "revolution" has died, or is just no good for him. "We sat around laughin and watch the last one die" We took this as a joke, and had fun as we watched other bands disappear.
   
   The Chorus is very obvious. He desperately looks for inspiration, looking to the sky, looking for stuff in his head (sign of life) looking for something help him blast his ideas off his head.
   "Looking for a complication, looking cause im tired of trying" he's so sick of not writing anything good, he seeks for something to distract him from doing that.
   "Make my way back home when I learn to fly" I'm going to bed/home when i finish this shit.
   
   "Think I'm done nursing the patience
   I can wait one night
   I'd give it all away
   If you give me one last try" He's tired, he won't write anything till tomorrow, but then...
   "We live happily ever trapped
   If you just save my life
   Run and tell the angels
   That everything is all right" He finds his muse, a girl, and everythings fine.
   
   Finally, the "Fly along with me, I cant quite make it alone, I try to make this life my own" part, is about how he can't finish his song, without her, and needs her in his life.

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