The Colour And The Shape is the Foo Fighters' 2nd full-length album and was released on their own independent label Roswell Records on May 20, 1997, but was distributed by Capitol Records.

[Doll] [Monkey Wrench] [Hey, Johnny Park] [My Poor Brain] [Wind Up] [Up In Arms] [My Hero] [See You] [Enough Space] [February Stars] [Everlong] [Walking After You] [New Way Home]

Doll

you know in all of the time that we’ve shared
i’ve never been so scared

doll me up in my bad luck
i’ll meet you there

I wish I had never taken this dare
I wasn’t quite prepared

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(X3)

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(X3)

one last thing before I quit
I never wanted any more 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(fall in, fall out)

Hey, Johnny Park

come and i’ll take you under
this beautiful bruise’s colors
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

your eyes still remind me of
angels that hover over
eyes that can change from blind to blue

now that i’ve found my reward
i’d throw it away long before
i’d share a piece of mine with you

My Poor Brain

real life is hard
we hide in the stars
thats where are heads
my head and you heart

this is a blackout
don’t let it go to waste
this is a blackout
I want to detonate

when you are so far
i’m falling apart
lose all my sonar
you jam my radar

sometimes I feel i’m getting 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

sometimes I wish that I could change
I can’t save you from my poor brain, o.k.

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, but i don’t mind because i’ll catch up

I want a song that’s indelible like manimal
I 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 you questions since you know me so well
someday you’ll realize that I get shy and I choke up

what is wrong with this animal, i’m terrible
I hope you never see me wind up

farewell my sweet paramania

my only promise is that i’ll never tell
keep you at a 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?

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

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 again for you to mend

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

kudos my hero
leaving all the best
you know my hero
the one that’s on


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

these steps I take don’t get me anywhere
i’m getting further from myself

one thing is always true 
how good it is 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 arms of someone else?


Enough Space

I was waiting for something, maybe flying machines
that’s when I found lily, the best i’d 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


February Stars

i’m hanging on here until i’m gone
i’m right where I belong
just hanging on even though 
I 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
and bet it all


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 of my head, out of her head she sang

and I wonder, when I sing along with you
if everything could ever feel this real forever
if anything could ever be this good again
the only thing i’ll ever ask of you
you’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when

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 sang


Walking After You

tonight i’m tangled in my blanket of clouds 
dreaming aloud
things just won’t do without you
matter of fact, i’m on your back
if you walk out on me, i’m walking after you

if you’d accept surrender, i’ll give up some more
weren’t you adored? 
I cannot be without you
matter of fact, i’m on your back

if you walk out on me, i’m walking after you
another heart cracked in two, i’m on your back


New Way Home

have you found your way around the down and out?
I know it must seem so 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