| Foo Fighters – Aurora Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I may be looking into it too much, but I really think this song is a comprehensive masterpiece, and probably the finest things the Foo Fighters have ever done. The opening riff is the beginning of life; genesis, truly; and a whole living, breathing entity grows out of it. The narrator faces adolescence and young adulthood with some level of difficulty/pain, but it is not a broodingly dark time. The line “I just kind of died for you / You just kind of stared at me” represents hurt, but the chorus establishes that it was still a worthwhile experience; “Hell yeah, I remember Aurora”. The tone of the chorus is somewhat melancholic, and almost emotionally removed. The narrator is clearly reflecting on a time come and past. But it is a fond recollection, certainly. The post-chorus, “Take me now...” is a hopeful grasping at the past, wishing it could come back. After the brief bridge, the chorus refrains once more, and then the recollection is over. We return to the simple opening riff. Genesis once more. The song continues. Life goes on. A new bass line is established. “On and on and on and on…” represents a life constantly moving forward. The crescendo and force that comes on is absolutely phenomenal. It grows into the climax of the song, a true firing on all fronts. Life is new and different now, and better because of it. Achievement, success, fulfillment. Then we reach the final “push” of the song with the syncopated drums. To me, the similarity in the riff of before is once again a callback to earlier in the song / earlier in life, but the different, more frantic, rushed drums in the background represent that something is different about it. What is almost haunting about this piece of the song is that we know it will not last. The drums forebode that something is coming soon after. And sure enough, it ends and just a few guitar notes are left to fade the song to silence. I think that melodically, the song mirrors the emotional arc of a life searching for euphoria and eventually reaching it, after years of growing and maturing, with occasional reflections on the past. Soon after that euphoria is reached however, death. Perhaps it isn't death, but the conclusion has such a feeling of finality and, well, conclusiveness that I think it is something to that effect. The climax is a proper climax, and that level of life will never be reached again. |
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