#SongLyricSunday #RocktoberMusicFest : Times Like These
Time again for Song Lyric Sunday!
The Idea was formed by Helen @ This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time. She has presented us with the word prompt of GIVE/GIVING for this week.
I started out this month with one of my favorite bands of all time, and it looks as though I get to use them again today. One can never have too much Dave Grohl in their life, right?
“Times Like These” is the second single off One By One, and a song with much symbolism regarding that album’s production. After the early unsuccessful recording sessions, Dave Grohl decided the band had to take a break, and accepted an invitation to play drums for Queens of the Stone Age. However, at a certain point he missed the Foo Fighters, and wrote “Times Like These” to express how “the band disappearing for those two or three months and me feeling like I wasn’t entirely myself.” It was the first of three new compositions brought to the re-recording of One by One in Grohl’s Virginia home studio, along with “Low” and “Disenchanted Lullaby”.
This song has been a personal favorite of mine for years, and has helped give me the strength to pick myself up and carry on again.
Times Like These
I, I'm a one way motorway
I'm the one that drives away
Then follows you back home
I, I'm a street light shining
I'm a wild light blinding bright
Burning off alone
It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again
I, I'm a new day rising
I'm a brand new sky
To hang the stars upon tonight
I am a little divided
Do I stay or run away
And leave it all behind?
It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again
It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again
It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again
It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again
Songwriters: NATE MENDEL,DAVE GROHL,TAYLOR HAWKINS,CHRIS SHIFLETT
© Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.,Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.,Universal Music Publishing Group,BMG Rights Management
Check out Helen’s post for rules for participating in this musical word prompt blog hop.
I'm making this post part of my month-long Blog Hop. Feel free to join in if you'd like. Click the image below for more information.
Here we go again! Another song I've never heard before yet it sounds SO familiar! LOL! Thanks for the share.
ReplyDeleteI could not figure out how to add a comment. I am not a spammer :). Love Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters and this song. I think this fits all that is happening in the world. Definitely times like these. Awesome choice!!
DeleteGood choice! The beginning almost sounds like it's in an odd meter.
ReplyDeleteThanks, John!
DeleteI don't remember hearing this one before, but i'm happy you posted it, because I sure do like it!
ReplyDeleteThere's an acoustic version out there as well, that really places emphasis on the lyrics.
DeleteI enjoyed this song as well. I hadn't heard it either, but I may have to check out more. Thanks so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI am sure you won't be disappointed. Thanks for stopping by!
Delete