{"id":99473,"date":"2025-07-02T21:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=99473"},"modified":"2025-07-02T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:41:40","slug":"foo-fighters-todays-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/foo-fighters-todays-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters Share New Single (&#8216;Today&#8217;s Song&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To coincide with the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, <a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/tag\/foo-fighters\/\"><strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong><\/a> have released a new single called\u00a0<em>&#8216;Today&#8217;s Song&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first taste of new music since their impressive 2023 album,<a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-foo-fighters-but-here-we-are\/\">\u00a0<em>&#8216;But Here We Are&#8217;<\/em><\/a>. The track itself is a reflective number, embracing themes of\u00a0turmoil, transformation, and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Frontman and\u00a0<strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong> founder Dave Grohl has penned a <a href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.com\/news\/foo-fighters-2025-by-dave-grohl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lengthy open letter<\/a>, discussing the band&#8217;s origins and journey. In it, he comments on the <em>&#8220;moments of unbridled joy, and moments of devastating heartbreak,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>the band has experienced, as well as showing gratitude to everyone who has been in the band, past and present.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It should go without saying that without the boundless energy of William Goldsmith, the seasoned wisdom of Franz Stahl, and the thunderous wizardry of Josh Freese, this story would be incomplete, so we extend our heartfelt gratitude for the time, music, and memories that we shared with each of them over the years. Thank you, gentlemen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And\u2026 Taylor. Your name is spoken every day, sometimes with tears, sometimes with a smile, but you are still in everything we do, everywhere we go, forever. The enormity of your beautiful soul is only rivaled by the infinite longing we feel in your absence. We all miss you beyond words. Foo Fighters will forever include Taylor Hawkins in every note that we play, until we do finally reach our destination.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Grohl ends the letter with the line,\u00a0<em>&#8220;Let\u2019s keep moving.&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Since completing their last tour in September 2024,\u00a0<strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong> parted ways with drummer Josh Freese in May. According to Freese, he was told the band had <em>\u201cdecided \u2018to go in a different direction with their drummer.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>At the time of writing, no replacement has been announced. However,\u00a0<strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong> are scheduled to play shows in Asia and Mexico later in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Foo Fighters - Today&#039;s Song\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3R-zrySoHNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Today&#8217;s Song&#8217; Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>I woke today screaming for change<br \/>\nI knew that I must<br \/>\nSo, here lies a shadow<br \/>\nAshes to ashes<br \/>\nDust into dust<\/p>\n<p>You know that nothing can prepare you<br \/>\nDon\u2019t let this cruel world compare you<br \/>\nWaiting for someone to repair you<\/p>\n<p>Two sides to a river<br \/>\nToo troubled to cross<br \/>\nIt might take you under<br \/>\nToday\u2019s song<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll drown in the middle<br \/>\nWhich side are you on<br \/>\nOne Way or Another<br \/>\nToday\u2019s song<\/p>\n<p>It may take a lifetime to find you<br \/>\nIt may take a lifetime to unwind you<br \/>\nPraying there\u2019s some way to remind you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they celebrate 30 years of their self-titled album, listen to the first piece of new music from the Foos in two years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17559],"tags":[968],"class_list":["post-99473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-foo-fighters"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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