Genius Meanings
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Fight Like a Brave
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“Fight Like a Brave” is the opening track from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' third album, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. It was written by Anthony Kiedis on the flight back home from
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Sublime – All You Need
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[Verse 1] / Headed out for Austin, now we're half way down the road / Hollering, "Budda-by, budda-by, budda-by, budda-by!" / Steady staring out the window / It feels good, it feels
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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 – Love Trilogy
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Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, summed up the meaning of “Love Trilogy” in his autobiography “Scar Tissue” as:
It’s about loving the things that aren’t
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Walkin’ on Down the Road
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[Verse 1] / Well, I'm walkin' on down the road / But it can't be heaven 'cause the streets aren't gold / And everybody knows what Bobby D was told / I'm walkin' on down the road
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Behind the Sun
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This song features an early melodic riff, rarely used in the RHCP’s early material. In his autobiography Scar Tissue Anthony noted that it
inspired the group to create “pretty
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Skinny Sweaty Man
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[Verse 1] / Flashing lots of cash and spending lots-o-loot / He’s sitting at the bar – then he’s sitting at the booth / Across the dance floor he does scoot / He’s the skinny
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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 – No Chump Love Sucker
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[Verse 1] / She's a witch, a brat, a bonafide bore / What's more, she snores, and that is a fact / Cow eyes lie, yes it's time to resist / How did I ever get into this? / How could
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Funky Crime
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According to Anthony’s autobiography Scar Tissue:
“Funky Crime'‘ was basically a lyrical description of a conversation that we’d had with George Clinton, in which he maintained
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Subterranean Homesick Blues
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This song is a cover of the Bob Dylan song of the same name–one of the first songs to feature a music video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67u2fmYz7S4
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Organic Anti-Beat Box Band
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Anthony Kiedis, lead singer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, told the story of when he wrote the lyrics for this song in his autobiography “Scar Tissue”, he wrote:
I went downtown
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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 – Me and My Friends
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This song is an ode to friendship, particularly former guitarist Hillel Slovak, who passed away due to a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988. Although never released as a single, the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Show Me Your Soul
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[Chorus 1] / In a world that can be so insane / I don't think it's very strange / For me to be in love with you / I wanna know more than your brain / [Verse 1] / Into my life you
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3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
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The song was written by drummer/vocalist Brad Arnold in a mathematics class when he was fifteen and was one of the first songs he ever wrote.
In terms of the song’s meaning Arnold
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Love of Your Life
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[Verse 1] / Sat on a cliff, wondering, "What did I miss?" / I watched the waves come in / Roll in, roll out / Without a single doubt / [Verse 2] / Lone on a bluff, is there ever
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Castles Made of Sand
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[Verse 1] / Down the street you can hear her scream "You're a disgrace" / As she slams the door in his drunken face / And now he stands outside / And all the neighbors start to
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Castles Made of Sand
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[Verse 1] / Down the street, you can hear her scream, "You're a disgrace!" / As she slams the door in his drunken face / And now, he stands outside / All the neighbors start to
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Blue Öyster Cult – (Don't Fear) The Reaper
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This 1976 hit’s meaning led to great discussions by fans. While written with the thoughts of the inevitability of death and dying young on the lyricist’s mind, he staunchly
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Eagle-Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
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“Save Tonight” is about spending as much time with one’s partner as possible, or in a wider context – not wanting tomorrow to come or something to end. In an interview with CNN
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