Let's Make Evil

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Let's make evil
Let's make good
I'd do anything I could
Just to get you in my dirt word
Go down on you

Seventeen and thirty-one
I am just my mother's son
Brown eyes and a silver tongue
All the mothers come undone
At the sight of me

The water's falling clear
Interiors decieve i fear
I think I'll kiss my shame away
My prudence is not dear
Inside out and feeling weird
I think I'll kiss my shame away

Let's get soft
Let's get hard
Let's get off in my backyard
Where the desert wind
Will wash our skin
A lighter red

Let's make peace
Let's make war
Let's break into heaven for
A dance with heaven's devils or
Is that more than you can store
Inside your head

The water's falling clear
Interiors decieve i fear
I think I'll kiss my shame away
My prudence is not dear
Inside out and feeling weird
I think I'll kiss my shame away

I don't want to live alone
Get on my throne
Slay my shame
Slay my shame

Let's get gentle
Let's get pissed
Get your knickers in a twist
Cause the angel and the devil kiss
They fell in love

Some seem dirty
Some say clean
Something from a madman's dream
Am I really what I seem?
Rising to my head like cream
It feels so strange

The water's falling clear
Interiors decieve i fear
I think I'll kiss my shame away
My prudence is not dear
Inside out and feeling weird
I think I'll kiss my shame away

Slay my shame
Slay my shame
I don't want to live alone
Get on my throne
Slay my shame
Slay my shame


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Let's Make Evil Lyrics as written by Anthony Kiedis Michael Balzary

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    I love this song. My fave line is "Let's get gentle Let's get pissed Get your knickers in a twist Cause the angel and the devil kiss They fell in looooove" But anyways. Anthony was dating a girl that was still in high school when this song was made. So she was 17 and he was 31 at the time.(Rolling Stone Mag April 1994 issue... the one with Anthony on the cover explains more) So this song must have been written in 1993 sometime. It's about their relationship. She's the angel and he's the devil. This line stands out in how Anthony was feeling "Some seem dirty Some say clean Something from a madman's dream Am I really what I seem? Rising to my head like cream It feels so strange." Seems to me that he's confused. And on drugs again, which he was before he quit for good.
    mrs.sideikon December 21, 2008   Link
  • 0
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    This is my favourite RHCP song by far. :)
    Hezon March 04, 2003   Link
  • 0
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    dude this such a great lyrical song...i've only heard half of it bc winmx is retarded and only had it for half the song but i love it anyways.
    uncgurlon March 05, 2003   Link
  • 0
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    It is about anthony and his younger lover, and the age diffrence i belive. This is a very good rhcp song!
    AKSSOULBRIDEon May 23, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    Anthony Keidis was a naughty, naughty boy...
    quiffpornon November 03, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    i have never heard it but read the lyrics lots. the way its used its like holding back on something but wanting to jump right into it at the same time.
    i love JFon December 20, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    yes he was quiffporn... i love JF, this song is from thr MYfriends single, but I guess u can get it on internet
    ANTWANmyMANon September 12, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    i absolutely love this song! i think it's about a girl he met once and the age difference was quite big (17 and 31). it sounds like he is pretty desperate for her but at the same time it sounds as if he's very confused about his feelings. the verse always starts with a contradiction - evil/good, peace/war etc., meaning that no matter what they did, they couldn't go wrong but it could also mean that he's torn between two contradictin emotions or choices . he sings "let's breake into heaven for a dance with heaven's devils or is that more than you can store inside your head?", so he isn't sure how far she will go. well, thats just my 2 cents love, Anna
    anna_banana3009on June 15, 2006   Link
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    To me it's about getting messed up and getting laid, but it's more than that. The contradictions of right and wrong are both chemical and emotional. It's a nice song about the darker side of love, and all while your mind is playing tricks on you.
    alsharptonsonon January 06, 2007   Link
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    i love the reference to dear prudence
    Lucanioon March 18, 2008   Link

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