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Foo Fighters have announced a new stadium tour with support from Wet Leg, Shame and more
The dates are in support of new album 'But Here We Are'.
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'Rope' is the second track on Foo Fighters' seventh studio album, Wasting Light, written collaboratively by all band members and produced by the band alongside Butch Vig. The song emerged from ideas developed during the tour supporting their previous record, and was released as the album's lead single. It centres on a relationship of mutual dependence, the narrator clinging to another person as a source of stability whilst caught in a spiral of indecision and doubt. The track builds around a simple emotional architecture: the need to hold on, the fear of falling, the suffocating intimacy of being bound to someone else. Grohl's vocal moves from restrained verses into a chorus that repeats its central plea with mounting intensity, the band tightening around him as the song progresses. There is no resolution here, only the circular logic of need and attachment, the rope both lifeline and noose.
"Rope" is a single by Foo Fighters, from the album Wasting Light, released 7th April 2011. The track is 4:18 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 17 articles about Foo Fighters.
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