Nevermind (Demo) Lyrics

[Intro]
You're in the middle of June in the summer of '59, I was young and cool, shot a bad game of pool, and I hustled all the chumps I could find. Now they call me the swan cause I wave my magic wand and I loved all the women to death. I partied hard, packed a mean rod, and I'll knock you out with a right or left

[Verse 1]
Nevermind the Pack Jam
Nevermind the Gap Band
Nevermind the Zapp Band
Nevermind the funk scam

[Chorus]
'Cause we're Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Verse 2]
Nevermind the British bands
Nevermind the synth funk bands
Nevermind the Wham Wham band
Nevermind Duran Duran

[Chorus]
'Cause we're Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Verse 3]
Nevermind the Soft Cell shit
That's strictly for the twits
Nevermind the Men At Work
Those tunes are for the jerks
[Chorus]
'Cause we're Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Verse 4]
Nevermind Hall and Oates
Those guys are a couple of goats
Nevermind the Culture Club
That jive's just one big flub

[Chorus]
'Cause we're Red Hot Chili Peppers

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About

Genius Annotation

Anthony Kiedis wrote about “NeverMind” in his autobiography “Scar Tissue”; he summed the song up as:

an audacious putdown of a variety of other bands (Gap Band, Duran Duran, Soft Cell, Men at Work, Hall and Oates), telling the world to forget about them, because we were what they were going to be into now.

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