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Give It Away Lyrics

What I've got you've got to give it to your mama
What I've got you've got to give it to your papa
What I've got you've got to give it to your daughter
You do a little dance and then you drink a little water

What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
Reeling with the feeling don't stop continue

Realize I don't want to be a miser
Confide w/sly you'll be the wiser
Young blood is the lovin' upriser
How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser

[chorus]
Give it away give it away give it away give it away
now x 3
I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper

Greedy little people in a sea of distress
Keep your more to receive your less
Unimpressed by material excess
Love is free love me say hell yes

I'm a low brow but I rock a little know how
No time for the piggies or the hoosegow
Get smart get down with the pow wow
Never been a better time than right now

Bob Marley poet and a prophet
Bob Marley taught me how to off it
Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it
Goodness me can't you see I'm gonna cough it

(chorus)

Lucky me swimmin' in my ability
Dancin' down on life with agility
Come and drink it up from my fertility
Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility

My mom I love her 'cause she love me
Long gone are the times when she scrub me
Feelin' good my brother gonna hug me
Drink my juice young love chug-a-lug me

There's a river born to be a giver
Keep you warm won't let you shiver
His heart is never gonna wither
Come on everybody time to deliver

(chorus)

(repeat first verse)
Song Info
Copyright
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
Writer
Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith, Michael 'flea' Balzary, John Frusciante
Duration
4:44
Producer
Rick Rubin
Release date
1991-09-04t00:00:00
Sentiment
Positive
Submitted by
shut On Dec 05, 2001
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Cover art for Give It Away lyrics by Red Hot Chili Peppers

In his book Anthony Kiedis said himself that its about giving things away to make yourself feel good. His girlfriend gives him this jacket that he really likes and she basically says take it I have a closet full of clothes and you like it I would like if you took it. So he took it and came up with this song because giving things away makes you feel happy. So contrary to the popular belief its not about sex.

I think it's about anything revolving giving, including sex.

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@RHCP4lifez smack....

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@RHCP4lifez No, every song is about sex and/or drugs. Every song.

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awsome song incredible bass line

Cover art for Give It Away lyrics by Red Hot Chili Peppers

In my opinion this is the Chili's best song, the video kicks ass!!!! Some of the lyrics are worrying, "Feeling good my brother gonna hug me, Drink my juice young love chug-a-lug me", but this is my fave song, from my fave Chili album...... COME ON, WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE COMMENTS??????

Cover art for Give It Away lyrics by Red Hot Chili Peppers

At its base, this song is about a friend of AK's who gave him an expensive leather jacket when he was a young junkie. He protested that it was a very expensive item for her to give to him, but she replied that nothing is worth anything unless you "give it away". He remembered this some years later when writing this song.

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the guitar drives me wild!! john frusciante is a genius i also love the verse Lucky me swimmin' in my ability Dancin' down on life with agility Come and drink it up from my fertility Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility just sounds so cool

Cover art for Give It Away lyrics by Red Hot Chili Peppers

I love this song but it's still one of my less favourite songs ob Blood, Sugar... Guess that just shows how much i love the Peppers

Cover art for Give It Away lyrics by Red Hot Chili Peppers

something's wrong with society... Sk8er Boi by that evil commy bitch Avril Lavigne had 963 POSTS!!! AND GIVE IT AWAY ONLY HAS 8, WELL 9 NOW?! How did things get like this?!

So true. Well I'm glad there are now 116, even if it's not close to the now 1227, but I take solace that "Stairway to Heaven" has 2022 comments.

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Bob Marley poet and a prophet Bob Marley taught me how to off it Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it Goodness me can't you see I'm gonna cough it

This part maybe about weed?

Cover art for Give It Away lyrics by Red Hot Chili Peppers

no, im with "thepython" i think thats about love...bob marley always was about love and bla bla bla. maybe it has a drug inuendo but u never know, most chilli songs can be interperated as drug influences (acid trips etc.).

Cover art for Give It Away lyrics by Red Hot Chili Peppers

im wondering why darktoss called avril lavigne a 'commy'? Never knew she was communist, or has that become a serious insult now? Anyway yeah, about loving your family, and on a wider scale, everyone! The family thing could be about people. Dont be selfish, love your brother type thing. And while it isnt their best song if you ask me, its the one they do best live by far and away, and they think that too. You can tell by the way they always end on it, and drag it out. It lets them be funk and rock n roll and jump around and take their clothes off and have fun. Wicked bad