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