| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Black Summer Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[EternalTearsOfSorrow:40924] I totally agree. One can also interpret this as a state of depression (Black Summer) that the narrator is also in, in which there is no end in sight. I believe this state of depression is cause by everything you said. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Black Summer Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[EternalTearsOfSorrow:40923] I totally agree. One can also interpret this as a state of depression (Black Summer) that the narrator is also in, in which there is no end in sight. I believe this state of depression is cause by everything you said. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Warm Tape Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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This song is more poetic and prolific than it has been given credit for. To me, it is presented in two stages, alternating between lust and love. From my humble perspective, this song is the narrative of someone in a dream/fantasy of unrequited love or a relationship that never existed. There is a balance of both true love and intense lust, and the melancholy of deep sorrow. The verses describe desire and lust, and the narrator's sexual navigation of the woman he is in love with. This is not a matter of objectifying her, rather a sincere declaration of how she makes him feel, especially physically. He wants to demonstrate his true love as much as he wants to enjoy the act of making love to her. "Deliver for me darling" is as much a call to requite the love he feels, as it is for mutual sexual satisfaction. The chorus is a hesitant transition into declaring his true love for her and asking her to requite his love. "Miles and miles of nether worlds I roam/Settle for love you're never far from home" suggests he wandered in the search for true love but has found what he is looking for in her. She has the opportunity to settle down with him should she choose. He is not directly asking her to be his, merely making a vague offer. I am most fascinated and touched by the interlude, which is where the narrator purges his feelings and declares his love (and lust) for her: "Let's go I know, I make it for two And if intuition's only what you take from it I know, I make it for two You were there and I was fortunate I know I'll make it for two And then a messy bed, apology that I will fall for you I know I'll make it for two I'll make it for two, I'll make it for two" Here, the narrator says "let's go" and get married ("intuition") because I can make a life for the two of us (I'll make it for two). If you are not tied down, please come and make me the lucky one ("You were there and I was fortunate"). If we make love there is no turning back from how much stronger my desire for you will become ("And then a messy bed, apology that I will fall for you"). I love you and I promise our life together will be amazing. ("I know I'll make it for two/I'll make it for two, I'll make it for two"). "Sleeping next to you and I'm in your dream" is his last attempt at relishing in the feeling of having her in his life, his bed, his heart. So much so that she feels the exact same way. Realizing that physical intimacy is not possible, he "settle['s] for love"; a one-way love that only he can project and is unable to be returned. |
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