11 Meanings
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
Smile From The Streets You Hold Lyrics
It's been so long
Since I've felt the heat of the sun on my paw
You're the one who knows me best
Put your things, put your plan to the test
You're a smile from the street
You hold my heart in my hands, well, I'll be
Oh, you're always on the decline
You take another sip of wine
A toast to us
You're the one with the stars
Ah*
- short solo -
You held the sign for the one that you are
That you
That you
That you
That you
- long solo -
You're ...
You're the one in the sky
When you go
You know you're where the planets grow
You're in the sun
I'll face it
To go where you're home
Oh ...
Since I've felt the heat of the sun on my paw
You're the one who knows me best
Put your things, put your plan to the test
You're a smile from the street
You hold my heart in my hands, well, I'll be
Oh, you're always on the decline
You take another sip of wine
You're the one with the stars
Ah*
That you
That you
That you
That you
You're the one in the sky
When you go
You know you're where the planets grow
You're in the sun
I'll face it
To go where you're home
Oh ...
Song Info
Submitted by
useyourillusion On Jul 19, 2002
More John Frusciante
Song to Sing When I'm Lonely
The Past Recedes
The Will to Death
Dying Song
Carvel
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
If you have an audio editor, reverse the entire song and listen to the solo backwards..
"The title song was a very intense moment, because I was having verbal communication with the spirits while I was recording; and I started crying at the end of it. The spirits give you ideas for things, and what's important to them is what's important to me. I'm much more concerned with my fame in their world than with my fame in this one. That's why it's been difficult for me to adjust to being alive at all."
From wikipedia.
it might have something to do with people he loves and how he let them down. ive never heard it but i think its right
Smile From The Streets You Hold was written for a friend who died before he died, maybe it was written for River P.? i don't really know who it was written for but this song is my favorite Frusciante song ever!
probably for hillel or river
I don't think its for River, cuz River makes an appearance on the album in the song 'height down'. Maybe he died before it got released so who knows.
It is for River he's even said a couple of times
This song was recorded during the same time as the songs off of Niandra LaDes, which was when River was still alive. He didn't put it on Niandra LaDes because of lack of space... If it is to anybody it is Hillel. This is the extended version I assume because there are two copies of Smile out there and one of them divides this song into two parts giving the album 18 tracks. I recently got this version of smile, but I was wondering is it suppose to cut out like that in the ending seems like there should have been something more. His voice gets all deep and than it just suddenly cuts out...
Written and dedicated to River Phoenix, the second half was added after his death. It was cut down into two parts on some editions of the record, the first part when Phoenix was alive and the second after he died. Smile was a compilation of songs from 1986-1997. I remember [in an interview] he was talking about how he wished that River P. had not been born because he wasn't happy with his life, and how he was now in a better place. And somthing about not haveing anyone to "play with". I'll try and find the interview where he talked about it.
I read this song was made after River's death, and yes, Baby Fru wrote it for him