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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 – 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 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 – 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 – Easily
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“Easily” is the seventh track of Californication, the seventh album by RHCP, published in 1999.
It was never released as a single, and no music video was produced for it. The
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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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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 – Transcending
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“Transcending” is the thirteenth and final track on the sixth RHCP album, One Hot Minute. Lyricist Anthony Kiedis wrote this song about actor River Phoenix, who died of a drug
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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 – Tearjerker
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An homage to his late friend Kurt Cobain; the day Anthony Kiedis heard of the Nirvana frontman’s suicide, the RHCP singer sat down to write this emotional ballad.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tear
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The 12th track off 2002’s By the Way. Anthony Kiedis expresses about the wonders and incredible beauty of life, as well as finding his purpose in it. He sings about appreciating
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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 – 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 – This Is the Place
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“This is the Place” is one of the many songs on By the Way which describe the negative effects of hard drugs and the hardships of getting clean.
With reference to early RHCP
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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 – The Power of Equality
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The first song off RHCP’s 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, this song showcases the band’s unique mashup of funk and metal music. It also shows their accepting, anti-racism
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Fire
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“Fire” is a cover of a song, of the same name, recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in early 1967. The version released by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1989 featured Anthony
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Midnight
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“Midnight” is the ninth track off of Red Hot Chili Peppers' 2002 album By The Way. It is one of the abundant love tracks off of the album, inspired by Anthony Kiedis' girlfriend of
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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 – Time
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“Time (https://genius.com/Red-hot-chili-peppers-time-lyrics)” is track nineteen on
By the Way , the eighth studio album by American rock band https://genius.com/artists/Red-hot-
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Parallel Universe
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The second song off the Chili Peppers seventh album, Californication. This was guitarist John Frusciante’s first album back with the band after a brief hiatus. Anthony Kiedis noted
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
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“The Getaway” is the cryptically-written title track and opener from Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ 2016 album, that some have hypothesized to be about two people with a large age
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – My Friends
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This song is about Kiedis' bandmates (at the time Flea, Chad Smith and Dave Navarro). Flea was going through a painful divorce, Navarro was addicted to heroin and Chad was down
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Right on Time
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[Verse 1: Anthony Kiedis] / One shot, all I need / I've got rhythm when I bleed / 'Til death do us part / Break my heart so I can start / [Pre-Chorus 1: Anthony Kiedis
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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 – Encore
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As its title suggests, “Encore” was initially a short instrumental jam session played onstage towards the end of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ live shows. Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tangelo
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[Verse 1] / When I'm with you, I feel like myself / No stranger, the shadow of somebody else / When I feel you holdin' my hand / I get touched, ain't this life grand? / [Chorus
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Around the World
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“Around the World” was released on September 14, 1999 as the second single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album, Californication.
The song details the love that Anthony Kiedis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Get on Top
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“Get On Top” was created after a jam session that was conducted shortly after guitarist John Frusciante had listened to Public Enemy.
I was listening to Public Enemy one morning
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Cabron
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“Cabron” is one of the lesser known tracks from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers eighth album By the Way, which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard 200.
This song is a description of the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Bella
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[Verse 1] / She wants to live in LA / Come put your ash in my tray / Once upon a funky crime / We were standing in the line / And now we're walkin' Melrose down to Vine / Well, I
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Deep Kick
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[Intro] / It started when we were little kids / Free spirits, but already tormented by our own hands / Given to us by our parents / We got together and wrote on desks / And slept
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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 – Venice Queen
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The subject matter addressed on By the Way marks a divergence from previous Red Hot Chili Peppers albums, with Anthony Kiedis taking a more candid and reflective approach to his
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Knock Me Down
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The death of original RHCP guitarist Hillel Slovak (1962 –1988) inspired this song about keeping away from drugs, and relying on your friends' help to keep you clean and healthy
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – I Could Die for You
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“I Could Die for You” is about Anthony and you – the listener. Just the two of you.
She smiles when I do my time
Bands do ‘sets’, not time, as a comic does. But when it is only
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Hunter
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“The Hunter” is an ode to Anthony’s father, John Kiedis, who is best known by his stage name, Blackie Dammett. Throughout the song Anthony reflects upon his relationship with
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Afterlife
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[Intro] / Hahahaha… / Long live the king / The young grows old with his buffalo spring / [Verse 1] / I got a Tupelo and we're ready to go / We gonna hit it all night with a rock
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Don't Forget Me
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This songs speaks about addiction to drugs and the process of overcoming it and growing as a result.
Anthony Kiedis stated in an interview in 2002:
“This song is my ideal of what
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Minor Thing
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[Verse 1] / I change the key from C to D / You see, to me, it's just a minor thing, y'all / He knows everything / To readjust you've got to trust / That all the fuss is just a
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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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