Dear Rosemary Lyrics

Lyric discussion by herchenm 

Cover art for Dear Rosemary lyrics by Foo Fighters

didnt dave invite someone to sing the backing vocals on this track? i think that was some dude from his past.. maybe there's a connection between the backing vocals guy and the meaning of the song?

and we have to remember that as a musician you someimes just choose names that fit into the rhyme ...

Hes Bob Mould, you can google him.

Folks familiar with Mould's oeuvre - from his days in seminal punk rock band Husker Du, through the rise of alt-rock faves Sugar, and his ongoing work as a club DJ - may recognize a few of these tunes already. "City Lights," "The Breach," and "I'm Sorry, Baby, But You Can't Stand In My Light Any More" were all road-tested when he toured in support of his 2007 retrospective DVD Circle of Friends. Two years later, "Sorry, Baby," and the careful way its concerns turn as the song advances, remain disarming. The title...

hm... true but Rosemary doesn't particularly rhyme with the rest of the song, and is not so common a name... so it can be THAT Rosemary, but even so it doesn't mean that every line is about her. Songs can be like dreams where someone you know well sometimes has a different name, for some reason...

"young hearts get shattered" may also refer to the fans

"Youth ain't gonna change the way you die" can only be for someone who died too young

and the rest of the lines quoted by mikevox call to mind someone...

the "Youth ain't gonna change the way you die" line could also be like, I guess a blast on super health conscious people? Like, even if you live super healthy, you're still going to die someday. Morbid, but idk, if you think of the "truth ain't gonna change the way you lie" part as being like, even if you start telling the truth, any lie you told before will still hurt... it kinda makes sense. Maybe only to me though :P