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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dark Necessities
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Anthony Kiedis, who wrote the lyrics to “Dark Necessities” in Hawaii, explained that the song:
speaks to the beauty of our dark sides and how much creativity and growth and light
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul to Squeeze
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Originally recorded during the production of their fifth studio album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991). Although it was not featured on the record—and compiled as a b-side to “Give It
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
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This song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood that lies underneath the glossy surface. The band might love the city of Los Angeles, but they saw firsthand the effects the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Backwoods
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[Verse 1] / Oh, someone spilled blood many years ago, wow! / Someone spilled blood but do you know / That from the backwoods where the Chuck Berrys grow / Come your long tall
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Black Summer
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Red Hot Chili Peppers break an almost six-year long pause with the eco-centered “Black Summer,” the lead single from their twelfth studio album, Unlimited Love.
According to a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tellin’ a Lie
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[Verse 1] / Would you believe that I’m tellin' a lie / Would you believe that it’s just a disguise / I don’t invent myself to shelter cause the fame won’t kill me / The shame the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tippa My Tongue
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Lead single from their album Return of the Dream Canteen, and fresh on the heels of their Frusciante comeback album Unlimited Love, “Tippa My Tongue” features a throwback sound
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Eddie
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“Eddie” is the second single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' thirteenth studio album, Return of the Dream Canteen. It was inspired by the October 2020 passing of legendary rock
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Heavy Wing
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[Verse 1: Anthony Kiedis] / Golden light / Streamin' from your eyes / Give me a piece of the real thing / And I live with you this life / Stripped and clean / A restless wolverine
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Mercy Mercy
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[Verse 1] / Oh mercy, mercy, mercy me / I look around, I need another remedy / The I don't know is philosophy / Better yet, I'll let you get ahead of me / [Verse 2] / Oh mercy
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
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As the title track from the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ eighth studio album, “By the Way” reflects the underlying theme of the record—Anthony Kiedis’ love life, and the emotions
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – On Mercury
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[Verse 1] / I've got myself in a masochistic hold / Why don't you let go? / Shake it off just to redirect my flow / Come on, let's go / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Sit up straight, I'm on a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Torture Me
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A memorable bass riff launches the listener right into the fast-paced action and gives them little to no time to think before the verse starts, as lead singer Anthony Kiedis
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Read All The Lyrics To Red Hot Chili Peppers’ New Album ‘Unlimited Love’
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The LP marks the return of guitarist John Frusciante.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
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[Verse 1] / I was riding, riding on my bike / Me with my friend, we're so alike / [Refrain] / Am I all alone? / [Verse 2] / She said all we have is this / We just had to stop and
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Drummer
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[Verse 1] / Stay awake / Fall asleep / Take a look at what you think and what you really need to keep / My atoms are indivisible / Shut it up / Run it down / Live a life that's
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – These Are the Ways
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[Verse 1] / Make me a fist / Purple Mountain road that I can't miss / Have we all had enough? / Have we all had too much? / [Verse 2] / Lost in a dream / Please step down from your
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – This Is the Kitt
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“This Is The Kitt https://genius.com/Red-hot-chili-peppers-this-is-the-kitt-lyrics ” can be found at track fourteen on the album and is an upbeat, happy, yet also sad song about a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hollywood (Africa)
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Freaky Styley producer George Clinton considers the song to be one of his favorites on the album. When Clinton would visit early Red Hot Chili Peppers gigs, he would go on stage
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Outer Space
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[Verse 1] / When I come to you, split this love in two / Overcome with fear but overdue / I set it free to let it move on / [Verse 2] / The crashing of your star, a fallen avatar
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Open/Close
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[Verse 1] / So we were down in Brazil and, man, that place is wild / We were in Rio de Janeiro, and uh, we had this, this sort of, uh, security-guard type guy and he was supposed
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Turn It Again
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[Verse 1: Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante] / Some of us get a little, and some a lot / We've got to make do with whatever we got / We get it hot, we cool it down, and then we pass
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can't Stop
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Released as a the third single from By The Way, “Can’t Stop” is known for its simple but catchy guitar riff, pulsating bass and thoroughly cryptic lyrics.
Throughout the track
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Goldmine
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[Verse 1] / It's innovated by your tin blue eyes and / Get involved in a sea of fire / Then we'd spoken but I'm a sycophant / This anana roller te coat and I'm Krant / [Chorus 1
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Pea
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“Pea” is the sixth song on the album One Hot Minute. “Pea” was written and performed by Flea.
When Flea was younger, he was frequently picked on. This song is partly believed to
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
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The first single off of Californication describes the struggles addicts go through to get sober and how they are viewed different when they return to reality. Scar tissue is a good
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Porcelain
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In the words of Kiedis himself:
I had met a young mother at a meeting. She was living in a YWCA with her baby girl, trying to get sober but failing miserably. The beauty and
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Not the One
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers offer a meditation on identity with “Not the One,” the third single from their 2022 album Unlimited Love.
Over a peaceful, blissed-out instrumental, lead
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Fall Water
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[Intro] / Operation Des: A nesta nana led 'em on / An an arriba led it on and a side of Paul / Waterfall / Lookin' at the time I messed a nana lime oh reached / Another wave a lot
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Party on Your Pussy (aka Special Secret Song Inside)
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This song was originally titled “Party on your Pussy,” but the band was compelled to change the title (choosing the snarky “Special Secret Song Inside”) because of their record
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Road Trippin'
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One of the few songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers that doesn’t feature a drummer. The song is just a mostly acoustic story of band’s road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Brandy
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There's a port on a western bay / And it serves a hundred ships a day / Lonely sailors pass the time away / And talk about their homes / And there's a girl in this harbor town
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Long Progression
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This song appeared on the I’m With You Sessions, the B-sides to the I’m With You album. Kiedis describes his love of starting and progressing through a new relationship, despite
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dani California
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“Dani California” is the first single and the opening track on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium.
Dani is a made up girl that RHCP reference in many
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