January 14, 2018
Written by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel Chris Shiflett
Produced by Gil Norton
Recorded at Studio 606 West, Los Angeles, Spring 2007
Released on the album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace in September 2007
From the Foo Fighters 2007 album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, comes the piano ballad “Statues”. Featuring a great melody throughout with strategically doubled lead vocals by Dave Grohl, the song is a catchy, infectious track throughout.
This melancholy song with lyrics of introspection and mortality and musically has a lush and exquisite arrangement built on a piano and topped with strings and acoustic with a brief but potent guitar lead.
Listen to “Statues”:
Song Lyrics
Repaired by a love of broken things
In a life, just some bodies growing old
No fear of the end, of anything
We’re just ordinary people, you and me
Time will turn us into statues, eventually
We got by, though we never needed much
A sliver of hope, no diamond rings
We got high, it was heaven it was hell
Flying over them, with broken wings
We’re just ordinary people, you and me
Time will turn us into statues, eventually
Oh, just two ordinary people, you and me
Time will turn us into statues, eventually
Our bones forever in stone, monuments of life
To dust, as everything must, we fade away in time
We’re just ordinary people, you and me
Time will turn us into statues, eventually
Oh, just two ordinary people, you and me
Oh, time will turn us into statues, eventually
