| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Black Summer Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The key lines of this song are 1 - Cremation takes its piece of your supply; and 2 - It's been a long time since I made a new friend. In this song, "black summer" is a bad thing, a season where there is no light to be found. He is lamenting the loss of friends to drugs. Note the clever use of "supply" that refers to one's drugs as well as to one's stable of friends. The song also includes the words crack and trip. And the reference to riding a headless horse an obvious reference to the mythological headless horseman, whose presence foretold death. Many of the more bizarre lines reflect his having a bad trip - again, representing both a literal bad drug trip as well as his symbolic struggle against the loss all around him. (I confess to have no idea where the 2nd verse's references to animals associated with Australia fit in.) The song also has a recurring subplot attacking the corruption of Western Leftists. *His Greta (the media-created environmentalist) weighs a ton - the hysteria weighing him down (but Kiedis also has a great sense of humor and loves his now-healthy body so he has probably noted that she has put on the usual Freshman 15 pounds since starting college and traveling by yacht to protect the planet). * China being propped up and made rich by the West's leaders, bankers, and Big Tech, all of it being done with little scrutiny, as if it were happening on the dark side of the moon. * Sailing on a censorship - the Western Media's working with Big Tech to block any dissident ideas by calling them disinformation or racist or a threat to the planet. Someone told me the new friend/long wait stuff is really about the return of John Frusciante but I'm not convinced - though the great guitar in this song lends it some credence? |
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