Red Hot Chili Peppers

Songwriter: Chad Smith John Frusciante Flea Anthony Kiedis

Producer: Rick Rubin

A little bit of paper but that's ok
I got sure an i got her today
Hanging out winds to meet my four
This time i call my lord
My Lord, my Lord

A little bit of stage to cast our play
I got ten men to come my way
Check it to the Betty to miss my love now
Take it baby for come my way

A little bit of love
A little bit of love, that's ok
Take it down the city to mast our care
A little better to come my way
Shake it down to dig my Lord
Come on then drama King an bear my soul
That's ok

My Lord, Whoa
My lord

I can touch you on your skin
A time to come an a time to begin
I like looking into your eyes girl
Come one the oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Take it then!

I saw you sittin to park my floor
I saw you begging to give me more
I saw you dancing around my head now
How'd you like to stab my brain

Want you want
Oh, what you need
Come on
What you really, yeah! Really!
How you gonna stop this here
Whoa

That's enough. Yeah!
Nothing To Lose, everything
To gain i say it's only on knew
You on time better sit down for...
Away...

You say you faster than the
Drummers in your life well
I said that's ok

I've been made up of everything you know
Sometimes it goes your way
You're ratted on well that's ok
YEAH!
That's ok. (Today)

Your seven years but don't hold three
I got a feeling that is so free
I'm coming out to give my teacher for
Tell me of course I've grown

She's comin about seven dates
An i'm free to lead
(Vocal improvisation, words made up)
She lives hard an need but that's ok
Cause i live on the west an you know what
I'm gonna say, y'all i got my team, that's ok

You don't funk they go your way
(Made up words again)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Whatever you do, the mirror's
What you bring it

The mirror's what you make it
The mirror's what make it

It's what you make it. Oooooo, it's
All the love for you, ooooooo

I feel it cast, reelin, tired, stealin'
For feel it

Falling i'm coming for you the two
High long time
For your life
It's a blank canvas, you can make
It whatever you wanna make it
It's fresh snow, don't piss in it
This is your fucking life

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a rock band based in Los Angeles, CA that incorporates elements of rap, funk, punk, and rock into their work, mainly classified as an alternative rock band. They made it mainstream off the success of their 1991’s fifth studio album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, led by singles “Give it Away” and “Under the Bridge.” After losing guitarist John Frusciante and losing popularity following the release of the less successful One Hot Minute, the band reunited for 1999’s Californication. The title track and hit singles “Around the World,” “Scar Tissue” and “Otherside” propelled them back to the fame. After 2002’s solid release By the Way and 2006’s double-disc Stadium Arcadium, Frusciante once again left the band to further pursue his solo career. The band added Josh Klinghoffer to help fill his void, and released I’m With You in 2011.

In December 2019, the band announced via Instagram that Klinghoffer had left after 10 years, and Frusciante would be rejoining.

Their lyrical content was mostly centered around sex, drugs, and the Los Angeles lifestyle, and lead singer Anthony Kiedis mostly rapped them as he wasn’t confident as vocalist. Most members of the band also suffered from drug addiction, as Kiedis and Frusciante had to check themselves into rehab for heroin addiction at various points in their lives. But Californication marked a change in the band’s content matter and lifestyle. The band was sober for the most part, and the lyrics had shifted to songs about love and the pains of addiction, the title even criticized the city they loved so much. In addition, Kiedis had started to sing his lyrics much more often as he finally felt comfortable with his voice. That change has allowed the band to stick around for over 20 years despite multiple changes to their lineup and is part of why they remain relevant.

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By The Way (B-Sides + Bonus Tracks) (2003)

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