Red Hot Chili Peppers

Tear

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This is my time
This is my tear
I can see clearly now
That this is not a place
For playing solitaire
Tell me where you want me
This is my time
This is my tear

Comin' on strong
Baudelaire
Seems to me like
All the world gets high
When you take a dare
Let it rise before you
This is my time

Chorus:
All in all I'm
Loving every rise and fall
The sun will make and I will take
Breath to be sure of this
In the end
All will be forgiven when
Surrender rises high and I
Gave what I came to give
Say it now because you never know

Devil may cry devil may care
Distiller's got a scream
And now I know just why
When she's movin' air
Can you feel the voltage
This is my time
California skies
Got room to spare
This is my time

(Chorus)

Take it outside
Take it out there
Seems to me like
All the world gets high
When you take a dare
In the final moment
This is my time

(Chorus)

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on_a_plain_11 On Jul 07, 2002

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by VeniceQueen

22y ago

yes anthhony and kurt were good friends... i dont think it has to do w/ that at all..Imean look at the chourus>> " "All in all I'm Loving every rise and fall " I think he saying, that so far hes had a good life, hes had bad times and good times

"In the end All will be forgiven when Surrender rises high"

and it seems to go on about how we are all going to heaven in the end..because all will be forgivin

Thats just what I think....but even if I'm wrong all of the chili pepper songs rock!!!!!

Anthony has so much to say about himself, his life, and the people he loves and you can feel him through these songs...ect

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by pressmab

20y ago

Another (excellent ) Pepper song about drug abuse and rehab. Read his book. Solitare is a populate rehab game. "Loving every rise and fall" is about Anthony still loving himself despite how many times he's fallen of the wagon.

I don't need to explain any more, listen to it again with addition in mind and you'll see the meaning.

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by Natureboy6

15y ago

I think it is a meant to be about a fictional 'awakening' at the point of realising you are going to die. There are a lot of spiritual references, not necessarily religious, just spiritual. Although wether the RHCP knew it or not... "tear" When used in this context overall, is mentioned a lot in various religious texts... In the Tibetan book of the dead it states that only when a man truly accepts the nature of his finite existence (that he will one day die!) may he be granted the priviledge to "tear" evil from his existence through humility. Likewise in the bible we find 2Corinthians : "...our spiritual weapons are there to discover, and use to 'tear' down the strongholds of the mind." (strongholds being unhealthy ways of thinking due to a feeling of incompleteness in our lives). Maybe Anthony Keidis had such an 'awakening' or realisation, and decided to share it with the world with the subtlest of points, In the last five lines of the chorus... ??

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by jimjackjanis 14y ago

why fictional? he did get sober right before and there are a lot of 12 step refrences:)

by bellebelle27

11y ago

Hillel

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by on_a_plain_11

24y ago

Apparently this song pays homage to the Beach Boys...

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by pot

24y ago

well this song anthony wrote it, no? but the beach boys help with the music. Thats is correct?

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by on_a_plain_11

24y ago

I think he's talking about Charles Baudelaire. He was a French poet who used macabre imagery and evocative language.

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by debaser2002

24y ago

Sounds like it's come from ' Smile ' and thats one of the best compiments in music......

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by SENORgracioso

24y ago

not a hard solo, but very melodic and fitting. Thats the Fruicante(correct my spelling) way

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by julez22

24y ago

John Frusciante

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I think this song is about a heroin overdose. Or, just heroin use. Even just listening to the melody of the song progress from verse to chorus, and the melody following the chorus. I haven’t even taken heroin, and I can imagine the feeling pairing perfectly with the melody of this song. I feel it’s what the band are trying to convey to the listener. Take us on a sort of journey, without really glorifying drug use, but more understanding it.

The lyrics make perfect sense if you listen to the song with the thought of an overdose in your mind. It all comes together and is incredibly haunting and beautiful. Even the line “say it now because you never know”, speaks volumes. A addict never truly knows if that that next time shooting up will be their final moments.

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