Know that everything moves in circles, yeah
Well, I don't have much to say..... two of my (many) favorite bands are Incubus and Red Hot Chili Peppers. I saw Incubus live with one of my best friends Rachel in 2009, in Tampa. (Which I was reminded of on FB pop up of "On This Day" Amazing live! I love basically every song of theirs, lmao.... so I'll share some of my favorites... leaning towards some of their ones that weren't the really early ones that everyone knows. Also a few of my favorite Red Hot Chili Pepper songs.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Scar Tissue"
Scar tissue that I wish you saw Sarcastic mister know-it-all Close your eyes and I'll kiss you cause With the birds I'll share [Chorus] With the birds I'll share this lonely view
Push me up against the wall Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra Fallin' all over myself To lick your heart and taste your health cause [Chorus] Blood loss in a bathroom stall Southern girl with a scarlet drawl Wave good-bye to Ma and Pa cause With the birds I'll share [Chorus] Soft spoken with a broken jaw Step outside but not to brawl and Autumn's sweet we call it fall I'll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and [Chorus] Scar tissue that I wish you saw Sarcastic mister know-it-all Close your eyes and I'll kiss you cause With the birds I'll share [Chorus]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song
"[Verse 1:] Can I get your hand to write on Just a piece of leg to bite on What a night to fly my kite on Do you want to flash a light on Take a look it's on display ... for you Coming down, no not today Did you meet your fortune teller Get it off with no propeller Do it up it's on with Stella What a way to finally smell her Picking up but not too strong ... for you Take a piece and pass it on
[Hook:] Fly away on my zephyr I feel it more than ever And in this perfect weather We'll find a place together Fly on . . . my wind [Verse 2 :] Rebel and liberator Find a way to be a skater Rev it up to levitate her Super friendly aviator Take a look it's on display For you . . . coming down no not today [Hook:] Fly away on my zephyr I feel it more than ever And in this perfect weather We'll find a place together Fly on . . . my wind [Verse 3:] In the water where I center my emotion All the world can pass me by Fly away on my Zephyr We'll find a place together [Hook:] Fly away on my zephyr I feel it more than ever And in this perfect weather We'll find a place together Fly on . . . my wind [Verse 4:] In the water where I center my emotion All the world can pass me by Fly away on my Zephyr We're going to live forever"
Incubus - "Pardon Me"
"[Intro] Pardon me while I burst (x2) [Verse 1] A decade ago I never thought I would be At twenty-three On the verge of spontaneous combustion Woe is me
But I guess that it comes with the territory An ominous landscape of never ending calamity I need you to hear I need you to see that I have had all that I can take And exploding seems like a definite possibility to me [Chorus] So pardon me while I burst into flames I've had enough of the world and it's people's mindless games So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame Pardon me, pardon me, I'll never be the same [Verse 2] Now two days ago I was having a look in a book And I saw a picture of a guy fried up above his knee I said, "I can relate!" Because lately I've been thinking of combustication As a welcomed vacation From the burdens of the planet earth Like gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of being in 3D But thinking so much differently [Chorus] Never be the same Pardon me while I burst into flames Pardon me, pardon me, pardon me [Chorus] Pardon me, never be, the same Yeah"
Chevelle - "The Red"
[Verse 1] They say 'Freak' When you're singled out The red Well, it filters through
[Chorus] So lay down The threat is real When his sight Goes red again [Post-Chorus] Seeing red again Seeing red again [Verse 2] This change He won't contain Slip away To clear your mind [Verse 3] When asked Who made it show The truth He gives in to most [Chorus] So lay down The threat is real When his sight Goes red again So lay down The threat is real When his sight Goes red again So lay down The threat is real When his sight Goes red again [Post-Chorus) Seeing red again Seeing red again Seeing red again Seeing red again Seeing red again Seeing red again Seeing red again Seeing red! [Outro] They say 'Freak' When you're singled out The Red: It filters through..."
Incubus - "Promises, Promises"
[Verse 1] I'm only 23 for another hour, give or take I'm a fan of yours and I need a good mistake I'm not a sinner or preacher, all I have is sleight of hand I do magic tricks for all the boys in the band [Pre-Chorus] Baby could I be the rabbit in your hat? I'd swing if you'd hand me, hand me the bat
[Chorus] I'm on the road of least resistance I'd rather give up than give in to this So promise me only one thing, would you? Just don't ever make me promises No promises [Verse 2] I've never done this before, promises, promises But I'm enjoying the illusion and the things my body says Now you see me, now you don't, oh how well you disappear What are you running from and may I interfere? [Pre-Chorus] [Chorus]"
Incubus - "Anna Molly"
"[Verse 1] A cloud hangs over this city by the sea I watch the ships pass and wonder if she might be out there and sober as well from loneliness Please do persist, girl it's time we met and made a mess [Chorus] I picture your face at the back of my eyes A fire in the attic, proof of the prize Anna-Molly, Anna-Molly, Anna-Molly
[Verse 2] A cloud hangs over and mutes my happiness A thousand ships couldn't sail me back from distress Wish you were here I'm a wounded satellite I need you here, put me back together, make me right [Chorus] I picture your face at the back of my eyes A fire in the attic, proof of the prize Anna-Molly, Anna-Molly, Anna-Molly [Bridge] Wait, there is a light There is a fire De-fragmenting the attic Fate? Or something better? I couldn't care less Just stay with me a while [Chorus] I picture your face at the back of my eyes A fire in the attic, proof of the prize Anna-Molly, Anna-Molly, Anna-Molly I'm calling your name up into the air Not one of the others could ever compare! Anna-Molly, Anna-Molly!"
Incubus - "Black Heart Inertia"
"[Verse 1] Walking alone tonight Because I've only got room for two Me and my burdened black heart It's all we know how to do Yet I look for a bigger bang Than the kind I continually see Sick of all this inertia I want a human being
[Pre-Chorus] Lover, can you help me? I'm a child lost in the woods A black heart pollutes me And I think [Chorus] You're a mountain that I'd like to climb Not to conquer, but to share in the view [Verse 2] Pulled by a false inertia Pushed out by circumstance Pistol firing at my feet That's coercing me to dance Yet I look for a bigger bang Than the kind I'm sorry to know Here I am, first foot of the climb Watch me go [Pre-Chorus] [Chorus] [Bridge] Send it away [x2] [Chorus] [Outro] Set it aflame, send it away"
Incubus - "Circles"
"[Verse 1] You saw me lost and treading water I looked pathetic I looked as helpless as a stinger without a bee But underneath my presentation, (yeah) I knew the walls were coming down And the stones that fell were aiming away from me [Chorus] Hey! What would it mean to you To know that it'll come back around again? Hey! Whatever it means to you Know that everything moves in circles, yeah
[Verse 2] I saw you standing in my headlights (Blink, blink, blink) I thought I'd run you down for the weight you left on me Instead I pushed rewind, reversed and drove away And seeing you disappear in my rearview brought to me the word Reciprocity [Chorus] [Bridge] Round and round we go Who could've known it'd end so well? We fall on and we fall off Existential carousel Spin! Ha! [Chorus] Oh that everything moves in circles Round and (x8)"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Snow"
"Come to decide that the things that I tried Were in my life just to get high on When I sit alone come get a little known But I need more than myself this time Step from the road to the sea to the sky And I do believe it, that we rely on When I lay it on come get to play it on All my life to sacrifice
[Chorus] Hey oh, listen what I say, oh I got your hey oh, now listen what I say, oh When will I know that I really can't go To the well once more time to decide on When it's killing me, when will I really see All that I need to look inside Come to believe that I better not leave Before I get my chance to ride When it's killing me, what do I really need All that I need to look inside [Chorus] Hey oh, listen what I say, oh Come back and hey oh, look at what I say, oh The more I see, the less I know The more I like to let it go Hey oh, whoa Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder Where it's so white as snow Privately divided by a world so undecided And there's nowhere to go In between the cover of another perfect wonder And it's so white as snow Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed And there's nowhere to go When to descend to amend for a friend All the channels that have broken down Now you bring it up, I'm gonna ring it up Just to hear you sing it out Step from the road to the sea to the sky And I do believe what we rely on When I lay it on, come get to play it on All my life to sacrifice [Chorus] Hey oh, listen what I say, oh I got your hey oh, listen what I say, oh The more I see, the less I know The more I like to let it go Hey oh, whoa Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder Where it's so white as snow Privately divided by a world so undecided And there's nowhere to go In between the cover of another perfect wonder Where it's so white as snow Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed And there's nowhere to go I said hey, hey yeah, oh yeah, tell my Love now Hey, hey yeah, oh yeah, tell my Love now Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder Where it's so white as snow Privately divided by a world so undecided And there's nowhere to go Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder Where it's so white as snow Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed And there's nowhere to go I said hey, oh yeah, oh yeah, tell my love now Hey, hey yeah, oh yeah"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Aeroplane"
"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 It's my Aeroplane Pleasure spiked with pain That motherfucker's always spiked with pain [Verse 1] Looking in my own eyes, hey Lord I can find the love I want Someone better slap me Before I start to rust Before I start to decompose Looking in my rearview mirror Looking in my rearview mirror I can make it disappear I can make it disappear, have no fear
[Hook] 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 It's my Aeroplane Pleasure spiked with pain That motherfucker's always spiked with pain [Verse 2] Sitting in my kitchen, hey girl I'm turning into dust again My melancholy baby The star of Mazzy must Push her voice inside of me I'm overcoming gravity I'm overcoming gravity It's easy when you're sad to be It's easy when you're sad, sad like me [Hook] 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 It's my Aeroplane Pleasure spiked with pain That motherfucker's always spiked with pain [Verse 3] Just one note could make me float Could make me float away One note from the song she wrote Could fuck me where I lay Just one note could make me choke One note, that's not a lie Just one note could cut my throat One note could make me die [Hook] 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 It's my Aeroplane Pleasure spiked with pain That motherfucker's always spiked with pain [Children] My aeroplane, my aeroplane... It's my Aeroplane..."
Incubus - "A Certain Shade of Green"
"A certain shade of green Tell me, is that what you need? All signs around, they say move ahead Could someone please explain to me Your ever present lack of speed? Are your muscles bound by ropes? Or do crutches cloud your day? Oooooo My sources say the road is clear And street signs point the way
You gonna stand around till 2012 A.D.? What are you waiting for A certain shade of green? I think I grew a gray Watching you procrastinate What are you waiting for A certain shade of green?
Would a written invitation Signed, choose now or lose it all, all Sedate your hesitation? jazz Or inflame and make you stall? You've been raised in limitation But that glove never fit quite right The time has passed for hand-me-downs Choose a new, please evolve Take flight
You gonna stand around till 2012 A.D.? What are you waiting for A certain shade of green?
I think I grew a gray Watching you procrastinate You gonna stand around till 2012 A.D.? What are you waiting for A certain shade of green?
I think I grew a gray Watching you procrastinate Ooooooo"