Restless little one
Comfortable and warm
Let me fall apart
Crippled in your arms
Chase me through the dark
Ready on your mark
First to reach the stars
Wins a broken heart
One that broke apart
Shattered from the start
Are you there?
Do you read me?
Are you there?
I don't feel you anymore
Cages and alarms
Keeping us from harm
I will be the guard
Hope to rest upon
Could I be the one
To break a will so strong
Pray it won't be long
Til your will is gone
Everything is done
Nothing left at all
Are you there?
Do you read me?
Are you there?
I don't feel you anymore
Are you there?
Will you give in?
Are you there?
If I give out
Over and out
Cages and alarms
Keeping us from harm
I will be the guard
Hope to rest upon
Everything is done
Nothing left at all
Are you there?
Do you read me?
Are you there?
I don't feel you anymore
Are you there?
Will you give in?
Are you there?
If I give out
Comfortable and warm
Let me fall apart
Crippled in your arms
Chase me through the dark
Ready on your mark
First to reach the stars
Wins a broken heart
One that broke apart
Shattered from the start
Are you there?
Do you read me?
Are you there?
I don't feel you anymore
Cages and alarms
Keeping us from harm
I will be the guard
Hope to rest upon
Could I be the one
To break a will so strong
Pray it won't be long
Til your will is gone
Everything is done
Nothing left at all
Are you there?
Do you read me?
Are you there?
I don't feel you anymore
Are you there?
Will you give in?
Are you there?
If I give out
Over and out
Cages and alarms
Keeping us from harm
I will be the guard
Hope to rest upon
Everything is done
Nothing left at all
Are you there?
Do you read me?
Are you there?
I don't feel you anymore
Are you there?
Will you give in?
Are you there?
If I give out
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This song is a real puzzle to me.
When the song was asked about in an interview, an uncomfortable Dave (who was being interviewed singularly) averted his eyes from the camera and glanced at the floor. He remarked that the song was personal. (The interview was: "Interview exclusive - See the Foo Fighters talk through their new album on camera.")
Though on a kind of ridiculous take...It is known that Dave's into UFOs, aliens, etc. I remember reading that when Dave was a kid he used to lie out on the grass (in his backyard?) and yell, "Come and take me!" So as a more ridiculous and silly interpretation, the "Are you there/Can you read me" seems to be referencing that.
I feel it's about a pregnancy loss, or death of a child.
Restless little one, Comfortable and warm...
Chase me through the dark...
a broken heart...Shattered from the start...
Are you there?...I don't feel you anymore.
Possibly from a car accident?
Cages and alarms, Keeping us from harm...
I will be the guard, Hope to rest upon...
Referenceing a prayer?
Could I be the one To break [god's] will so strong
Asking for it to be painless and fast, no suffering
Pray it won't be long, Til your will is gone
Everything is done. Nothing left at all.
The chorus is so simple and heartbreaking. You get that picture of a radio with nothing but static.
Amazing song, possibly my favorite on the new album. But that's like picking your favorite child for me.
heartbreaking, beautiful.
"Shattered from the start" means to me how now everything is messing up and becoming worse, and he's thinking to himself like, why he couldn't have known this would have happened from the start anyway.
"Are you there? I don't feel you anymore..." basically means how things have changed, and somehow their strong bond between one another has broken loose, and the things they used to do that was so meaningful and only between them two has no significane at all now.