Foo Fighters: Monkey Wrench Meaning
Song Released: 1997
Monkey Wrench Lyrics
It disappeared with time, it never made much sense
Adolescent resident
Wasting another night on planning my revenge
One in ten
Don’t want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
I’d rather...
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I always figured it was about Cobain. "I'd rather leave than suffer this - don't want to be your monkey wrench"
"All this time to make amends - what if all your enemies are friends?"
1 in 10 people who threaten suicide end up succeeding: "Another indecent accident"
The shouting part of the lyric "still theres one thing that comforts me since I was always caged and now I'm free" - the caged part makes me think of a drum set, also metaphorically, since Nirvana=Cobain in the mainstream - Grohl was largely forgotten. Now that it's over, he's free.
But hey, I didn't write the song, so I could be totally wrong. -
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Take a look at this, very interesting stuff!
Foo Fighters - Shiny metallic-like spheres spotted during World War II by military personnel. After the war, neither side claimed ownership of the Foo Fighters. The name Foo Fighters comes from a comic strip phrase "where there's foo their's fire."
Lear, John - Creator of the Lear Hypothesis, or the Dark Side Hypothesis. Basically and briefly, his hypothesis is that the government has collected all the crafts from UFO crashes and has tried to reverse engineer them. The US government then made a deal with the aliens which stated that the aliens could be in control of a section of S-4 and abduct as many people as they want, in return for a list of the abductees and their technology. In 1978/79, the aliens killed 44 scientists and most of a Delta Force strike team sent in to rescue them. The deal being broken, the aliens were abducting about 1 in 10 humans, mutilating them, then replacing them with androids they manufactured in underground factories. Then in the 1980's, he said that the aliens and the government struck another bargain for more technology. Lear claims that these abductees have implants in them to control them and be the ideal drone army if the time should come.
Maybe Dave Grohl is one of these people and is tired of being under the aliens control. Look at the lyrics, it's all in there. -
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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I think it is about not wanting to be used by someone who abandoned you the first time.
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A monkey wrench, informally, is a disruptive and undesirable impact on a set of plans. The song, to me, revolves around somebody who has been in a relationship where they either been accused of being a monkey wrench in the partners life or made to feel that way. The song is their way of saying they will never be/never was a bad effect on their partners life and that they are moving on.
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Why does everything always have to be about a relationship? I'm not saying this song is, it could be but in general he is obviously being used and wants to get out of whatever he's doing (a relationship or a job or something)
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Well I figured it was more about being used in a ralationship whether is a romantic one or not. The line'i don't wanne be your monkey wrench' suggests that he's being used as a tool(a monkey wrench)to do ther other persons dirty work or just used in general.
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Isn't rather about being in a relationsip where you realise you're being used and how you just want to get out of it? Where the other person is dragging you down or causing you pain? I see it as a song where you realise the relationship you're in is wrong and you want out.
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