My Friends Lyrics
I feel the question of your loneliness
Confide 'cause I'll be on your side
You know I will, you know I will
Alone and desperate on the prison phone
They want to give her seven years
For being sad
I love all of you hurt by the cold
So hard and lonely too
When you don't know yourself
And standing on the brink of emptiness
No words I know of to express
This emptiness
Release is peace
And what she said was something beautiful
To give your love no matter what
Is what she said

I read a essay Anthony wrote on his heroes, and he said that his greatest hero is a 9 year old girl he saw on televison who won a dancing contest. She was sexually abused and beaten by her father, but when they asked her what she learned from her experiences she just said-
'To forgive and endlessly give your love to all those around you no matter what happens'
Thats what the last line in the song means.... beautiful isn't it?
Yeah...
Yeah...

This song always makes me cry. A few months ago my best friend was raped. When she told me I didn't know what to say to her so i got my guitar and sang this song. It was my way of telling her we love her and will always be there for her.

Of all the songs in the Chili Peppers catalog, this may very well be my favorite. Who can't relate to this song in some way? As for it's meaning, I've heard a few different stories. One is Anthony Kiedis was in a hotel room while on tour watching TV and he came across a talent show featuring young kids. One of the little girls in the talent show had a rough story. She had been abused by a family member, but had not let it break her spirit. She said "to give your love no matter what." That's where the lyric in the song originates from. As for the rest? I've heard Anthony wrote it as a kind of "pat on the back" to friend and bandmate Flea, whom was going through a rough divorce at the time. But those two theories aside, I think the overall message is pretty clear. When you have people in your life that are looking out for you and are there when you need them, you're golden. Everyone needs a shoulder to cry on at one point or another.

love this song. It's pretty clear what it's about.
Best RHCP song without Frusciante

I Find a connection between this and all of the Red Hots other anti drug songs. Not only does it lyrically refrence knock me down, ( which was about losing Slovak to an OD0, but I think this songmay be about losing john to heroin and such, and how AK and the other Peppers will be "there for him" and stuff. My thoughts aside this a magnificent song. Very mealonchoaly and pretty

its about loving your friends even if they can be cod to you and depression

depression and not knowing or loving yourself and finding yourself down and out and in the cold, maybe living on the street or something, and yet, through the trials he learns through the difficulties and realizes all his friends have the same troubles too and loves people more because of it, because he know he is not alone. my favorite lines:
I heard a little girl And what she said was something beautiful To give your love, no matter what Is what she said.
Excellent. May everyone have this realization.
may everyone have this realization. <3
may everyone have this realization. <3

I really responded to: ex girlfriend called me up alone and desperate on the prison phone. they want to give her seven years for being sad. That part seems to speak to relationships that you may have ended but you are still there for one another in crisis. It also talks to the unfortunate trend of society to blame or try to punish people simple being unhappy. I adore this group!

i think dave navarro rules dont care what you nucca's say

This song is one of my favorite songs by the Chili Peppers.
My interpretation of it is this: This band is part of generation x. They don't know where their going or where they've been. They're just there. Empty and alone because no one really knows, not even themselves.
It's about a generation gone arye and even though they were all going through something different all they had was each other. It's like the wave crashin on the shore after it peaks. Or a calm after a storm. That's what this song means to me at least.