Foo Fighters Songs - Congregation Lyrics

Foo Fighters - Congregation

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Album: Sonic Highways
Released: 2014

Congregation Lyrics

Well, I met the seventh son
He came for everyone
The day he heard the lighting in the field
I heard him clear his throat
A fork within the road
That night the Tallahatchie took the wheel

I’ve been throwing knives
To see just where they land
Now my world is in your hands

Send in the Congregation
Open your eyes, step in the light
A jukebox generation
Just as you were

The voice upon the stage
Is the heart inside a cage
And they’re singing like a bluebird in the round
There’s mystery in this wood
And ghosts within these roots
That are tangled deep beneath this southern ground

I've been going through life
Making foolish plans
Now my world is in your hands

Send in the congregation
Open your eyes, step in the light
A jukebox generation
Just as you were

And you need blind faith
No false hope
Do you have blind faith?
No false hope
Where is your blind faith?
No false hope
Open your eyes, open your eyes
Step into the light
Open your eyes, step into the light
The sound becomes

Congregation
A congregation
A congregation, yeah
And they're singing like a bluebird in the round

Writer/s: NATE MENDEL, DAVE GROHL, OLIVER HAWKINS, PAT SMEAR, CHRIS SHIFLETT
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Congregation Song Chart

This is a track from Sonic Highways, an album containing eight songs, each recorded in a different US city. This cut was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. Bassist Nate Mendel told NME: "The song 'Congregation' is a play on how a lot of the folks in the Nashville country music scene came together in church, in a sort of gospel environment, to learn their craft."

The song features guitars and backing vocals from Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band. Dave Grohl previously collaborated with the country group when he produced and played drums on their 2012 The Grohl Sessions, Vol. 1 EP. The Foo Fighters frontman told Q magazine of their original collaboration: "Zac Brown is an enormous country star. I met him in a store and he asked me to produce an album. I'd never heard of him. I said to someone, Zac Brown has asked me to produce him' - they said, 'You should do it, he's huge' So I did the record without hearing any of his songs."

The lyric, "And they're singing like a bluebird in the round," references Nashville's iconic Bluebird Café. "The Bluebird I knew a little bit about, but I learned a lot," explained Grohl. "In Nashville, it seems like there are these rites of passage that you have to go through to become a star, whether you're a singer or a songwriter, and the Bluebird is really one of those. If you can get down at the Bluebird, you've got a gig."