Red Hot Chili Peppers

Released: September 19, 1995

Songwriter: Chad Smith Flea Dave Navarro Anthony Kiedis

Producer: Rick Rubin

[Verse 1]
Stretching out your tightness
Good enough to make you grow
We are all in favor of this motion

Stretching out your tightness
Time to open up your hole
When it rains, I let myself get wet

I have always wanted to
Give something to my brother
Proposing to expose your head
Just something that is like no other

[Chorus]
I'll stretch you out
I'll stretch you out, my friend
I'll stretch you out

[Verse 2]
The juice that flows from intuition
Is my liquid fare
We are all in favor of the open end

Three pounds of love and knowledge
Are expanding in my skull
Truth be told, we let the good times roll

I have always needed to
Receive it and believe it
And it's making and creating love
Tender titillation

[Chorus]
I'll stretch you out
I'll stretch you out, my friend
I'll stretch you out

[Verse 3]
I'm a fish and I can swim all day
I can swim in so many ways
Make it up as I go along
That way it is never wrong

I'm a bird and I can fly away
I can shift in so many shapes
Make it up as I go along
That way it is never wrong
Owwwwwwww....

[Bridge]
There's a glowing up around the moon
It is showing
We want to play in the water that is flowing

[Verse 4]
Very legendary
Extra planetary fairy
Varied truths, she's making just for you

Yes I have always wanted to
Give something to the stranger
M-m-m-moving to improve the groove
A mental transformation

[Chorus]
I'll stretch you out
I'll stretch you out, my friend
I'll stretch you out

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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