Breathe out/
So I can breathe you in.

The Foo Fighter’s “Everlong” is a song about falling deeply in love.  This would be a typical song of love and lust (in terms of theme) except that Grohl gives the girl a warning about himself. He suggests that he will probably try to ruin the relationship by trying to end it early, but he asks her to ignore him when that time comes.

This appears to be a personal song, as it deals with the author’s tendency to fall deeply in love with a woman, fear the end, and sabotage a good thing. This time he doesn’t want to repeat that pattern.

The acoustic version is amazing. I believe the famous version is from The Howard Stern Show. Grohl usually performed the song with an electric guitar, but he had an acoustic guitar on him that day. Stern asked him to perform it anyways, and it turns out the song sounds amazingly better solo acoustic. That live performance lifts it into the top 500 songs of all-time.

Everlong Lyrics

Hello
I’ve waited here for you
Everlong

Tonight I throw myself in two
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 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
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 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
She sang

And I wonder
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

Songwriters: David Grohl