As promised, Foo Fighters just released another unreleased track today, the 14th, from their newest album Medicine At Midnight , which arrives on February 5th.
frontman Dave Grohl 's experiences and traumas stemming from the constant fear that the United States would go to war.
“As a child growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., I was always afraid of war. I had nightmares about missiles in the sky and soldiers in my backyard, probably due to the political tension in the early 80s and my proximity to the nation’s capital. My youth unfolded under a dark cloud of a hopeless future,” Grohl wrote on social media about the song.
“Last fall, while I was driving my 11-year-old daughter to school, she turned to me and asked, ‘Dad, is there going to be a war?’,” he recalls. “My heart sank as I looked into her innocent eyes, because I realized she was living under the same dark cloud of a hopeless future that I lived under 40 years ago.”
“I wrote 'Waiting On A War' that day. Every day I was waiting for the sky to fall. Is there anything beyond that? Is there anything beyond waiting for a war? Because I need more. We all do. This song was written for my daughter, Harper, who deserves a future, just like every child deserves. Dave,” he concludes.
Listen to “Waiting On A War” below:
Foo Fighters:
Medicine at Midnight Making a Fire
Shame Shame
Cloudspotter
Waiting on a War
Medicine at Midnight
No Son of Mine
Holding Poison
Chasing Birds
Love Dies Young
