Red Hot Chili Peppers

Released: August 30, 2011

Songwriter: Josh Klinghoffer Chad Smith Flea Anthony Kiedis

Producer: Rick Rubin

(Come on, come on)

[Verse 1]
I'm coming for you 'cause
'Cause I adore you and
I'd like to get inside your mass production
This indecision has
Has got me cringing, well
I can't resist the smell of your seduction

[Pre-Chorus]
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go?
Unwrap the package without much persuasion
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go?
I want to dance to every days occasion

[Chorus]
This I know, yeah this I know
(Take me home, well take me home)
This I know we're not alone
(Take me home, take me home)

[Verse 2]
When we envision
Lack of division and
The planet does another revolution
The day I blew on you
You said I grew on you
Turns out that we are all the one solution

GO!

[Trumpet Solo]

[Verse 3]
I'm coming at you, well
Year of the cat too and
I like the sound of your articulations
Want to arouse her and
Maybe espouse her, well
She showed me love without the stipulations

[Chorus]
This I know, yeah this I know
(Take me home, well take me home)
This I know we're not alone
(Take me home, take me home)

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4]
I want to lean on you
Get Jan and Dean on you
It's time to sway a little mass perception
I like your cheeky, well
So Mozambiquey and
I think the world could use a clear connection

[Chorus]
This I know, yeah this I know
(Take me home, well take me home)
This I know we're not alone
(Take me home, take me home)

[Chorus]
This I know, yeah this I know
(Take me home, well take me home)
This I know we're not alone
(Take me home, take me home)

[Outro]
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go?
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go?
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go?

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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