Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape

FOO FIGHTERS

THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE (1997)

  1. Doll
  2. Monkey Wrench
  3. Hey, Johnny Park!
  4. My Poor Brain
  5. Wind Up
  6. Up In Arms
  7. My Hero
  8. See You
  9. Enough Space
10. February Stars
11. Everlong
12. Walking After You
13. New Way Home

FOO FIGHTERS

THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE

1. DOLL

You know in all of the times that we shared
I've never been so scared
Doll me up in my bad luck
I'll meet you there

I wish I never had taken this dare
I wasn't quite prepared
Doll me up in my bad luck

Doll me up in my bad luck
I'll meet you there.

2. MONKEY WRENCH

What have we done with innocence?
It disappeared with time, it never made much sense
Adolescent resident
Wasting another night on planning my revenge

One in ten!
One in ten!
One in ten!

Don't want to be your Monkey Wrench
One more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your Monkey Wrench

All this time to make amends
What do you do when all your enemies are friends?
Now and then I'll try to bend
Under pressure wind up snapping in the end

One in ten!
One in ten!
One in ten!

Don't want to be your Monkey Wrench
One more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your Monkey Wrench

Temper
Temper
Temper

One last thing before I quit
I never wanted anymore than
I could fit into my head
I still remember every single word you said
And all the shit that somehow came along with it
Still there's one thing that comforts me
Since I was always caged and now I'm free!

Don't want to be your Monkey Wrench
One more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your Monkey Wrench

Don't want to be your Monkey Wrench
Fall in, fall out
Don't want to be your Monkey Wrench
Fall in, fall out
Don't want to be your Monkey Wrench
Fall in, fall out
Don't want to be your Monkey Wrench.

3. HEY, JOHNNY PARK!

Come and I'll take you under
This beautiful bruise's colours
Everything fades in time, it's true

Wish that I had another
Stab at the undercover
Was it a change in mind for you?

It's impossible
I can't let it out
You'll never know
Am I selling you out?
Sit and watch
Your every mood
Mood

Your eyes still remind me of
Angels that hover above
Eyes that can change from blind to blue

It's impossible
I can't let it out
You'll never know
Am I selling you out?
Sit and watch
Your every mood
Mood
Mood
Mood

Now that I've found my reward
Throw it away long before
I share a piece of mind with you

It's impossible
I can't let it out
You'll never know
Am I selling you out?
Sit and watch
Your every mood
Mood
Mood
Mood.

4. MY POOR BRAIN

Real life is so hard
We hide in the stars
That's where our heads are
My head and your heart

This is a black out!
Don't let it go to waste!
This is a black out!
I want to detonate!

When you are so far
I'm falling apart
Lose all my sonar
You jam my radar

This is a black out!
Don't let it go to waste!
This is a black out!
I want to detonate!

Sometimes I feel like gettin' stuck!
Between the handshake and the fuck!

You've got me on guard
I've got my head start
My head and your heart
The same in the stars

This is a black out!
Don't let it go to waste!
This is a black out!
I want to detonate!

Sometimes I wish that I could change!
I can't save you from my poor brain, OK!

5. WIND UP

I have a choice between the bat or the belt
Each time I hear about the hand you've been dealt
Spare me confession, it's confession you sell
Maybe I'll fall behind, I don't mind
'Cause I'll catch up!

Want a song that's indelible, like an animal
Like, hope you never see me wind up!

Will I be happy on the back of the shelf?
Will you be happy when we're sharing a cell?
Spare me your questions since you know me so well
Someday you'll realise I get shy and I choke up!

Want a song that's indelible, like an animal
Like, hope you never see me wind up!
What is wrong with this animal?
I'm terrible
I hope you never see me wind up!

Farewell my sweet Paramania
Farewell my sweet Paramania

My only promise is that I'll never tell!
Keep you at distance from the things that I felt!
I'll bite the bullet, take the beating until
I take it all back anyway
What was I supposed to say?

Want a song that's indelible, like an animal
Like, hope you never see me wind up!
What is wrong with this animal?
I'm terrible
I hope you never see me wind up!

6. UP IN ARMS

The rain is here
And you, my dear, are still my friend
It's true the two of us are back as one again
And I was the one who left you
Always coming back, I cannot forget you, girl
Now I am up in arms again

The rain is here
And you, my dear, are still my friend
It's true the two of us are back as one again
And I was the one who left you
Always coming back, I cannot forget you, girl
Now I am up in arms again

Together now I don't know how this love could end
My lonely heart it falls apart
For you to mend
And I was the one who left you
Always coming back, I cannot forget you, girl
Now I am up in arms again

And I was the one who left you
Always coming back, I cannot forget you, girl
Now I am up in arms again
And I was the one who left you
Always coming back, I cannot forget you, girl
Now I am up in arms again.

7. MY HERO

Too alarming now to talk about
Take your pictures down and shake it out
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

Don't the best of them bleed it out
While the rest of them peter out
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

Kudos, my hero
Leaving all the best
You know my hero
The one that's on

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary.

8. SEE YOU

These notes are marked return to sender
I'll save this letter for myself
I wish you only knew
How good it is to see you
To see you
To see you

These steps I take don't get me anywhere
I'm gettin' further from myself
One thing is always true
How good it is to see you
To see you
To see you

I'm done resenting you
You represented me so well
And this I promise you
How could I end up in the hands of someone else?

These notes are marked return to sender
I'll save this letter for myself
I wish you only knew
How good it is to see you
To see you
To see you
To see you
To see you
To see you
To see you
To see you.

9. ENOUGH SPACE

I was waiting for something, maybe flying machines
That's when I found Lily, the best I've ever seen
Put her on the ceiling, try to make her my own
People line up to see
But there never seems to be enough space!
Space
Space
Space

I was waiting for something, maybe flying machines
That's when I found Lily, the best I've ever seen
Put her on the ceiling, try to make her my own
People line up to see
But there never seems to be enough space!
Space
Space
Space
Space
Space
Space
Space

Space
Space
Space
Space
Space
Space
Space
Space.

10. FEBRUARY STARS

Hanging on, here until I'm gone
Right where I belong, just hanging on
Even though watched you come and go
How was I to know you'd steal the show?

One day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call
Bet it all

Hanging on, here until I'm gone
Right where I belong, just hanging on
Even though I pass this time alone
Somewhere so unknown, it heals the soul

You ask for walls, I'll build them higher
We'll lie in shadows of them all
I'd stand but they're much too tall
And I fall

February stars
Floating in the dark
Temporary stars
February stars

February stars
Floating in the dark
Temporary stars
February stars

February stars
Floating in the dark
Temporary stars
February stars.

11. 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 be 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 sing

And I wonder when I sing along with you
If everything could ever be 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

And I wonder
If everything could ever be 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.

12. WALKING AFTER YOU

Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds
Dreaming aloud
Things just won't do without you, matter of fact
Oh, I'm on your back
I'm on your back
Oh, I'm on your back

If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you

If you'd accept surrender, give up some more
Weren't you adored?
I cannot be without you, matter of fact
Oh, I'm on your back
I'm on your back
Oh, I'm on your back

If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you

Now the heart is cracked
In two, I'm on your back

I cannot be without you, matter of fact
Oh, I'm on your back

If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you

Now the heart is cracked
In two, I'm on your back.

13. NEW WAY HOME

Have you found your way around the down and out?
I know, it must seem long, so long
I'm still trying to keep this time from running out
Head down, always moving on and on and on

I never heard this warning
Another early morning takes me, wakes me into
If you could manage me, I'll try to manage you
But lately, it's all I ever do

I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass the boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared

I'll never tell you the secrets I'm holding
I know these things must bore you
I can't find another way
I'll never tell you the secrets I'm holding
I love this leash that holds me
When I try to run away

I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass the boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared
I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared

I felt the like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared
I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared
I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared
I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared
I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass the boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared
I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass the boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared
I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass the boats and the Kingdome
I'm not scared
I'm not scared
I'm not scared.

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