Long Road to Ruin

Album: Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace (2007)
Charted: 35 89
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  • Here now don't make a sound
    Say have you heard the news today?
    One flag was taken down
    To raise another in it's place

    A heavy cross you bear
    A stubborn heart remains unchanged
    No home, no life, no love
    No stranger singing in your name

    But maybe the season
    The colors change in the valley skies
    Dear God, I've sealed my fate
    Running through hell
    Heaven can wait

    Long road to ruin
    There in your eyes
    Under the cold streetlights
    No tomorrow
    No dead end in sight

    Let's say we take this town
    No king or queen of any state
    Get up to shut it down
    Open the streets and raise the gates

    I know a wall to scale
    I know a field without a name
    Head on without a care
    Before it's way too late

    Maybe the season
    The colors change in the valley skies
    Oh God, I've sealed my fate
    Running through hell
    Heaven can wait

    Long road to ruin
    There in your eyes
    Under the cold streetlights
    No tomorrow
    No dead ends

    Long road to ruin
    There in your eyes
    Under the cold streetlights
    No tomorrow
    No dead end in sight

    For every piece to fall in place
    Forever gone without a trace
    Your horizon takes its shape
    No turning back, don't turn that page

    Come now, I'm leaving here tonight
    Come now, let's leave it all behind
    Is that the price you pay
    Running through hell
    Heaven can wait

    Long road to ruin
    There in your eyes
    Under the cold streetlights
    No tomorrow
    No dead ends

    Long road to ruin
    There in your eyes
    Under the cold streetlights
    No tomorrow
    No dead ends

    Long road to ruin
    There in your eyes
    Under the cold streetlights
    No tomorrow
    No dead end in sight Writer/s: Chistopher Shiftlett, David Eric Grohl, Nate Mendel, Taylor Hawkins
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Word Collections Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Megan from Stevenson, AlThis video is so funny! I love this song! It's sooo catchy! I listened to it once and had to again!
  • 69-so-fine from French Lick, Indiana!!, InThis song got me though 8th grade...don't know how just listened to it and I felt pumped to go an do another day of crap! I'm ttly going to be a musican when I get older I've decided...
  • Georgina from Laredo, TxLOVE the video from this song. best foo fighters video ever!!!
  • Amanda from Evergreen, Coi absolutely LOVE the Foo Fighters!!! i have for a long time AND they are coming to red rock's this summer!!! i am so excited to see them in concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love how they make the videos so funny, learn to fly is probably a better video though i think
  • Yes from Bellflower, CaThis is such a good song! My favorite part of the video is when he cries :)
  • Dave from Hartlepool, EnglandThe dance that Dave performs on stage in the shopping centre is a carbon copy of the dance that Dave Brown is famous for in Hartlepool - not sure it Davey G stole it from him :)
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