Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly Lyrics | SongMeanings (2024)

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Learn to Fly Lyrics as written by David Eric Grohl, Oliver Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel

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  I think its about someone who is looking for salavation. The video to this song is really funny!

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  RedArmyon June 07, 2002Link

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• +8

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  I would agree with: bexmcr123

  "\Love this song...the video is soo funny. i think this song is about being fed up with your life...and pretending that your comfortable about where you are to others but fighting a battle within yourself from actually doing anything. you want to change for yourself but then stay the same for everyone else. learning to fly is like learning to break away and do things for yourself. i know this is like nothing to do with what anybody else has really put but hey thats what it means to me.!/"

  Have always thought the same thing good to know im not alone.

  johnnyfiveisaliveon October 11, 2009Link

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• +7

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  Whenever I hear these lines it always makes me think of the Nirvana days:

  \"Hook me up a new revolutionCause this one is a lieWe sat around laughing and watched the last one die\"

  Nirvana definitely shook things up and while everyone was running around trying to exploit and profit off of that, they seemed to forget that the person that it all revolved around was in trouble.

  spotchesteron May 08, 2006Link

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• +6

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  always made me think of getting a grasp on the way things are going for you.. conflict makes life interesting, so the line "looking for a complication" implies that he wants life to have some spice. so he wants to take control of his life, but at the same time make it worth living.

  FAVORITE PART: [depends on mood]

  starlightfadingon August 01, 2002Link

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• +5

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  As a musician, I can relate this song to a lack of inspiration.

  Hes searching for his muse

  "Run and tell all of the angelsThis could take all nightThink I need a devil to help meGet things right" - I can't write a thing, I Need inspiration

  Maybe the "Hook me up a new Revolution" part is talking about how he feels this genre, or "revolution" has died, or is just no good for him. "We sat around laughin and watch the last one die" We took this as a joke, and had fun as we watched other bands disappear.

  The Chorus is very obvious. He desperately looks for inspiration, looking to the sky, looking for stuff in his head (sign of life) looking for something help him blast his ideas off his head."Looking for a complication, looking cause im tired of trying" he's so sick of not writing anything good, he seeks for something to distract him from doing that."Make my way back home when I learn to fly" I'm going to bed/home when i finish this sh*t.

  "Think I'm done nursing the patienceI can wait one nightI'd give it all awayIf you give me one last try" He's tired, he won't write anything till tomorrow, but then..."We live happily ever trappedIf you just save my lifeRun and tell the angelsThat everything is all right" He finds his muse, a girl, and everythings fine.

  Finally, the "Fly along with me, I cant quite make it alone, I try to make this life my own" part, is about how he can't finish his song, without her, and needs her in his life.

  PeterNjoon December 16, 2012Link

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• +4

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  this in my opinion is the best foo fighters song, straight up rock

  rafaelnadalno1fanon November 03, 2009Link

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• +3

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  the video is really good! great lyrics, great song

  turnerkr_ukon June 20, 2002Link

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  the video is absolutley hilarious! this song is really special to me, but to be honest i haven't a clue what its about... like the salvation theory though...

  squeezeon June 12, 2002Link

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  yer.. Best Film Clip ever made... Dave Grohl, is as funny as he is cool . lol i lost it when The steward winks at the captain :P oh and btw.. Did anyvody notice the guys with the cocaine are Tenacious D??? I only just realiised this recently :)

  robortyon July 06, 2002Link

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• +2

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  lol, he does make a good woman, doesn't he?

  zen_childon April 26, 2003Link

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