Foo Fighters - Walking A Line Lyrics

i heard Krist Novoselic performed backing vocals for this track

Such an underated song

This is one of my favorite Foo Fighters song. How come it was only on the One by One DVD?

This comment section is stupid AF . Who cares about your opinion? Nobody, that's who!!

Now STFU and enjoy the song 😎

lembro quando comprei o one by one e só tinha essa música no dvd

Reminds me of Nirvana. I can hear Cobain's voice to this song.

Obviously wrote this (particularly the breakdown) after drumming for Queens of the Stone Age.

Oh! THERE'S my favorite band. Whew! Was worried I lost 'em there for a second.

I like how Dave says the "Low" is the most Queens of the Stone Age-sounding Foo tune, but this is 10x more Queens.

The Music Major more like Queens otsa wished they could write something catchy like this, Josh Homme is not the best songwriter

You are a fool.

Nice video !!!!!!!!!!!

OMG.. you really took some of my first edited video material to post it as "yours" on here! F** D*** in German!

Anna Wrona what?

A. W. haha I've been there I've done that xD but no more

Why wasn't this on One by One. This is a banger. Wish it had bigger sounding drums.

How does no one know about this song

_"In 2002, Krist Novoselic, he performed uncredited background vocals on Foo Fighters' song 'Walking a Line', written as a tribute to Cobain, during the One by One album sessions."_

samuel norris it isn't

You dear moron, you can't go and just change info in pages of people like Krist. These pages are moderated either by themselves, their manager, or their family. Of course you can go and write any bullshit you can imagine, but it will be changed back to the real stuff, very soon. Now shut the fuck up, please.

Thompter S. Hunson filling your arguments with name calling and demanding for the conversation to be over just shows the weakness of your point and your own insecurity about it. Dave Grohl himself said that he never wrote a single foo fighters song referencing Kurt directly, "friend of a friend" being an exception but it's not really counting since he wrote it while still in Nirvana. you can google this and watch him ON VIDEO saying it repeatedly in several interviews (try the George Strombo interview for instance since you're incapable of doing any actual work), you can also see on the making of Sound City that Krist doesn't do vocals, that's also on YouTube and perfectly googleable. now if you still think Krist, his family, his management or whomever gives two shits about Wikipedia that says a lot about your deluded childish mind, so weak that you need to resort to temper tantrums because you think your half assed opinions are beyond questioning. I showed you a way to see it for yourself, from the band's leader own mouth while you just copy and paste something you THINK it's right, I think it's pretty clear who needs to shut the fuck up here, you worthless piece of garbage. good night.

Wow. You took a really lot of time to write down all that pointless bullshit. I demand the conversation to be over firstly because I saw where this is going and you people are just relentless, but mostly because I know a couple thing more than you (obviously!) about how the celebrity pages of Wikipedia are handled because it's a part of my job and I need to know. Now, to your delirium, why the one rockstar claims something on "A" when another rockstar is claiming the same thing on "B", it's not my job to know, nor I'll dedicate much time to figure it out. It's not even a secret that Krist and Dave didn't get along very well for years. So, what's going on in their big superstar heads I don't know. What I know for sure is that everything on that pages is written by specific people around the mentioned person on the page, and not by some weirdo fans with their brains over their heads (as you imagine them). That can go for other pages in Wikipedia, not for public figures. I dare you to go and change any page of any public figure you want (with the decent fame of course!) and go again after some time to see if what you wrote remained there or it has been removed. You talk the talk, but can you walk the walk? See ya around, bozo.

Thompter S. Hunson you took a lot of time to write a lot of bullshit without a single bit of evidence, I took a lot of time to write a lot of facts backing every single one of them with evidence. You lose right there, clown, and I won’t see you around because I have a life to live, hence the amount of time I spent (happily) oblivious from your answer only to randomly find it out a year later when rewatching one of my favorite videos. Oh and just a little doozy of a trivia for you, I met Dave this past February when the Foos played in my city and I point blank asked it (its one of my favorite songs and I always wanted to know more about it), he not only backed up everything I said but even joked about forgetting this song even existed because that’s all there is to it, a fine piece of music but that was left alone as a b-side. Sleep on that, dipshit. Bye.

best foo fighter track imo

+Håvard Eliassen 100% agree..the pretender is also okay..but this one is the shit

hahaha dutch

Great song

HA! I Signed in just so I could put a LIKE on this one Mordianmate!

In 2002 he performed uncredited background vocals on The Foo Fighters song "Walking a Line", written as a tribute to Cobain, during the One by One album sessions. The track is included on the One by One bonus DVD, as well as being a bonus track to the album.

That's from wikipedia.

Aint no turning back cause I'm walking my lion!!!

I think Dave said it

Like if you stop the video to see the tracklist at 0:18

dude i changed the slashes and left the spaces out and it still didn't pull up krist novoselic.....

You have to change the direction of the slashes, so it's bit.ly / 10fsbxp and bit.ly / Xqvgbl (take the spaces out). Sorry should have told you that, YouTube has all these weird rules about posting links in comments

neither one of your links worked....did not lead me to anything even related to krist novoselic

No, I got the info about Walking a Line from here: bit.ly\10fsbxp . And the Eyes Adrift thing is pretty common knowledge, but here's a clip of him singing since you don't seem to believe me: bit.ly\Xqvgbl . If you'd read my other comments you'd see I'm actually agreeing with you that this might not be about Kurt, I don't know where everyone's getting that from. I know it says so on Wikipedia but there's no citation.

whatever dude....you probably got your info from wikipedia like everyone else. i've never heard them say krist did background vocals on walking a line. they probably did dedicate the song to the memory of kurt cobain on the itunes track, since 2002 was the year the last song nirvana ever recorded...you know you're right was released, that would explain that. but i'm just saying that doesn't mean the song was about kurt. all i know is that dave has said repeatedly that krist doesn't sing.

thank you for saying that. everybody on here is an expert apparently, lol

Where is everyone getting that this is a tribute to Kurt? Has Dave ever actually said that, or is everyone just assuming because Krist was on it?

Um no he didn't, he's said time and time again that song's about his friend Jimmy Swanson.

Dude... he sang lead vocals in Eyes Adrift. And did sing backing vocals on this song although wasn't credited (I think he probably didn't want to be).

Back when they were fun, and not so serious. The Colour and the Shape is my most favorite album ever!

Perhaps no band has more songs I start to hear the 1st time and don't click "next". Maybe Cake but thats it.

FAREWELL 20 and 30 yr ROCK DYNASTIES

Here's to the end of rock as we know it (raising my mouse). 21st century leftovers WILL NOT make 20 yrs top albums a few 90's bands claim nor the 30 yr success that died in the 80s (Beatles)...... NOT 3 Days Grace, Snow Patrol, Black Keys, or Lifehouse (I'm stretching it). 10 yrs will be shocking. NEW is better; not just music but bands (people)

Someone down below said some shit about this song not being as good as anything Kurt ever did. Why say some stupid shit like that? I love Kurt but Dave Grohl can hold his own and writes just as good and in some cases better. Did Kurt ever write, perform and record a whole album by himself? Fuck no! Did Dave? Fuck yeah! Because he's a musical god as well as Kurt.

Kurt never had to record an album by himself, but he could've. He played drums too. Stop acting like your opinion is fact

that piss me off that some of the people that likes foo fighters don't know Nirvana

relax and enjoy the song :P lol

and who else does dave know that's walked a line?? are you fucking serious? you are a goddamn moron! Dave has never known anyone but Kurt for his entire life???

what the fuck are you even going on about? you are the one who has absolutely NO clue what you are talking about. Krist has said HE DOES NOT SING!! Name one song in particular he has sung background vocals on and prove it you idiot! It amazes me how the most ignorant people love to talk shit about something they know nothing about! Refer to the bazillion comments on here saying how fucking stupid it is to keep saying EVERYTHING is a TRIBUTE to Kurt, because it is SO FUCKING STUPID!!

You're an idiot lol . And sitting here trying to make everyone believe you is even funnier. There are so many things in your statement that are wrong as well. You obviously didnt know anything about Krist, cause he DOES sing, and HAS SANG before . Tool bag. And this track IS a tribute to Kurt. FACT. Who else does dave know thats " Walked a line " . You obviously never listened to Cash either cause you would understand the meaning of the track name you dipshit. Stupid people are stupid.

Cobain was good, very good, but this is amazing!!!

Still nothing as good as Cobain ever did

nonsense. this song is in no way a tribute to anything. the description of the song on the cd cover even says it's just an above average punk rock song they came up with, which is right up dave's alley cause it's what he was bred on. AND also, krist novoselic has NEVER sung background vocals for dave or anyone else. He is not a singer, he has said that many times. They did get together for "i should've known" on wasting light as kind of a tribute to nirvana because of the 20th anniv. thing.

They need to make a cd of all their B-sides and covers dammit.

WoW no dislikes!

you are all idiots

Novoselic none of you stupid americans can write his name?

Not only it should have been on the One by One album, but they should play it during their gigs. Great great song.

"The Missing Pieces" or "One by One" ?

@hhhseanhbk Actually it's a tribute to Kurt. Krist Novoselic did backing vocals on this track, uncredited of course.

Way underrated song, it deserves a lot more listeners!

3:21 matt bellamy of muse! (old muse)

well your all idiots

Who gives a shit what it's about? it's an awesome song and that's what matters

thats a fucking epic set list at 0:22!!

@pixelatedsoul It's not a b-side...it's a bonus track. B-sides comes from singles.

This is probably my favorite Foo Fighter B-Sides. Frankly, I think this should have made the cut for One By One.

Novoselic instead formed the band Sweet 75 in 1995, releasing a single self-titled album in 1997. Even though he turned Foo Fighters down, in 2002 he performed uncredited background vocals on one song during the One by One album sessions. The track is "Walking a Line", released on the One by One bonus DVD and as an iTunes bonus track to the album, in a tribute to Cobain. He made a guest appearance on the Foo Fighters album Wasting Light, being reunited with Grohl and producer Butch Vig.

wasn't this song and tribute to cobain?..and krist did some bakground vocals but was uncredited?

whenever i see a video with 0 dislikes i allways press dislike but i cant do this in this video...

@MeteoJudgment which song is about kurt?

200th Like is mine! Yeah! And no dislikes!

@arturocruz09

Isn't he playing Krist bass on their next album, or at least 1 song. I thought I read something like that somewhere.

@snwman91 The song is about his best friend Jimmy. His name is even on the song. And to prove this, go here .vh1.com/video/play.jhtml?id=1626582&vid=457682

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@slashnez dave said word forward was about cobain in an interview on fuse tv

@snwman91 No, Word Forward is about Dave's best friend who he knew practically his whole life and he died recently. Only 1 song is about Kurt and that's "Friend of a Friend". "Walking a line" is a tribute to Cobain...doesn't mean it's about him.

@hhhseanhbk This song was RELEASED as a TRIBUTE to Cobain, it is not about him.

@hotpiercedguy2 Song isn't about Cobain. Chris did backups on this as a tribute to Cobain (the collaboration).

@hhhseanhbk word forward is the song about cobain

I wish the footage (with its original sound) from this was available in some sort of short film or something. We're missing out on so much Foo-based hilarity here, you can tell!

Llama late as fuck lol but this is off their everywhere but home dvd

ROCK 'N' GROHL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@hhhseanhbk Well think about this... if it wasn't for Kurt, Dave wouldn't have made it this far. When Grohl was in Scream he was going nowhere.

@hhhseanhbk lmao im sure wikipedia is a more reliable source then you sir.

This has been one of my favorate Foo Fighters song ever since I first heard it. Though I will admit it gave me a speeding ticket. During a hot summers day with this song in your car playing really loudly thats life.

@hhhseanhbk
This is directly from Novoselic's wiki.
"Even though he turned Foo Fighters down, in 2002 he performed uncredited background vocals on one song during the One by One album sessions. The track is Walking a Line, released on the One by One bonus DVD and as an iTunes bonus track to the album, in a tribute to Cobain."

@hhhseanhbk
Actually, Novoselic recorded in 2002 with Foo, as a tribute to Cobain. So it is in fact a tribute song.
He did uncredited vocals on the song.
You fail, sir.
Though I agree that every song doesn't revolve around Cobain.

Did the Foo Fighters write this?

@hhhseanhbk I know. It's so annoying

this song was a tribute to kurt cobain.. he was awesome.. and so is this song.

O,O this song if freaking awesome one of the best Foos

@Chubachus indeed freaking awesome song

I had this on the double cd w/ dvd one by one when it came out. I wore out this song on the dvd. it's still one of favorate Foo Fighters track.

Could easily be my new favourite Foo's song! ;O

the really quiet part, the bridgey bit.. is Krist :)

shoulda been more than a bside

i prefer nirvana (less commercial) but foo fighters rock.

and dave is great

This song was wrote about the time that Dave Grohl had decided to settle down with his (then) girlfriend Jordyn Blum. It is more likely to be about that part of his life than the singer of a band he was in once!!!

@MyFoofighters Also, this track is on iTunes incase you were still looking for it

@MyFoofighters: Indeed.

this song is the best but i cant find it on itunes so i have to watch it when i get home not when im at school or on the bus and stuff so HOW CAN I FIND IT ON ITUNES!?!?!??!?! wtf haha

wow this is amazing!

I love Taylor's ballerina moves at 3:28 :D

according to wikipedia, it is

is this song on itunes? if so what do i type in to get the song?

35K views...? Fail song :/

Best band in the world

god i love this song...

foo fighters forever.

nooo more like foo fighters at 3:22

ha ha muse at 3:22

I bought One by One back in 2002 in its first month, the release contained the limited edition bonus dvd back then, with this the all my life video some footage and the track The One on it. I you want to buy it try ebay, otherwise look for it on a torrent site maybe?

Imagine it would have been on their magnum opus One By One, I would have rated that cd from 10/10 to 11/10, awesome song