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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 – 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 – 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 – Aeroplane
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[Intro] / (Yeah) Aw yeah / [Chorus] / I like pleasure spiked with pain / And music is my aeroplane / It's my aeroplane / Songbird sweet and sour Jane / And music is my aeroplane
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Brendan's Death Song
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Released as the fifth and final single on the Red Hot Chili Peppers album, I’m With You, the song is dedicated to Brendan Mullen. Mullen founded The Masque – a small punk rock club
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Police Station
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“Police Station” is a slow, emotional piece of music that tells a story of Anthony running into various old friends throughout L.A, all of whose lives had become tragic.
Kiedis
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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 – 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 – 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 Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
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Released as the first single from I’m With You, “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie” marks the first single featuring the guitar playing of Josh Klinghoffer, who replaced long
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Ethiopia
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The inspiration for “Ethiopia” originated from a life-changing “musical field trip” that bassist Flea and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer took to the African country.
As Flea told The
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Factory of Faith
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[Verse 1] / All my life I was / Swinging for the fence / I was looking for the triple / Never playing good defense / Gunnin' for the glitter / Every hot and heavy hitter / She was
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Walkabout
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A walkabout is a coming of age ceremony that’s “a journey on foot undertaken by an Australian Aboriginal in order to live in the traditional manner.” On these walks, one is
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Warped
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“https://genius.com/Red-hot-chili-peppers-warped-lyrics” is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, from their 1995 album, One Hot Minute.
It was released as the first single from
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Monarchy of Roses
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“Monarchy of Roses” is the hardhitting, uplifting, start the “party inside your belly” track that opens the Red Hot Chili Peppers' tenth studio album, I’m With You. This was the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Look Around
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[Verse 1] / Stiff club, its my nature / Custom love is the nomenclature / Turn down mass confusion / Hit the road 'cause we just keep cruisin' / Double my fun, double my vision
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Annie Wants a Baby
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[Verse 1] / Lucy Rebar / She's a friend of mine / Later she'll go / Back and redefine the line / It's getting longer all the time / Oh yeah / [Verse 2] / Drinking sunshine / She
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Circle of the Noose
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“Circle Of The Noose” was an unreleased track from the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded in 1997 with guitarist Dave Navarro, who was briefly with the band. It never appeared on an
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Even You Brutus?
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The title is a reference to Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. Spoken to one of his assassins and former associate Brutus, Caesar’s dying words have become a symbol for treachery
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dance, Dance, Dance
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“Dance, Dance, Dance” has been described as the most atmospheric and family-friendly song on the album.
The lyrics lull one’s mind and soul to the realization that no matter what
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Did I Let You Know
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“Did I Let You Know” is a song from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 2011 album I’m with You and was released as the album’s fourth single in January 2012 as a radio-only single
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Meet Me at the Corner
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[Verse 1] / Please don't ask me who / Who you think I am / I could live without that / I'm just a modest man / [Chorus] / Meet me at the corner and, oh / Tell me what to do / '
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Shallow Be Thy Game
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[Verse 1] / I was not created in the likeness of a fraud / Your hell is something scary, I prefer a loving God / We are not the center of this funny universe / And what is worse, I
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Bob
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The song is a Bonus Track from the 1995 album “One Hot Minute” and mentions Bob Forrest, DJ, leader of Thelonious Monster and personal friend of the band.
Bob Forrest got his own
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Coffee Shop
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Coffee Shop was the fifth and final single from their 1995 album, One Hot Minute, produced by Rick Rubin.
The CD single was released only in Germany, featuring two live tracks
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Melancholy Mechanics
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[Intro] / Oh yeah / [Verse 1] / Persistent mist that faults my vision / Psycho-exist point of collision / It's raining in my cranium / My head feels like a stadium / [Verse 2
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Goodbye Hooray
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“Goodbye Hooray” is track nine on The Red Hot Chili Peppers' tenth studio album, I’m With You. It was produced by https://genius.com/artists/Rick-rubin who is a longtime producer (
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Big Mob
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[Pre-Chorus] / I am you are me / I am you are me, who / I am you are me / I am you are me / Good woman said you gotta believe (I am you are me) / Submerge into the urge of we (I am
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Let's Make Evil
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[Verse 1] / Let's make evil, let's make good / I'd do anything I could / Just to get you in my dirty world / Go down on you / Seventeen and thirty-one / I am just my mother's son
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Happiness Loves Company
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[Verse 1: Anthony Kiedis] / Start marchin' / 'Cause you think you shot to number one / Counting' days and / Skippin' your stones into the sun / Over age and under thumb, oh / Does
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stretch You Out
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[Instrumental Intro] / [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
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