This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Well alright, now dig this
You don't care for me I don't care about that
You got a new fool hah I like it like that
I have only one burning desire
Oh, can I make love with your fire?
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire oh yeah
Now listen to this baby
And stop acting so crazy
You say your mom ain't home ain't my concern
Just don't play with me and you won't get burned
I have only one burning desire
Oh, I'm gonna, me, do it in your fire
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire oh yeah
Oh move over over,
And let Mr. Huckleberry take over,
You know he's bad, you know he drowns,
You know who he gives it to, yeah
That's right, now dig this
You try to give me your money you better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day I have only one burning desire
Oh, can I make love over your fire?
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire
You better slide you ass over, girl
'Cause I'm coming through once and I'm coming the way you must be
You don't care for me I don't care about that
You got a new fool hah I like it like that
I have only one burning desire
Oh, can I make love with your fire?
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire oh yeah
Now listen to this baby
And stop acting so crazy
You say your mom ain't home ain't my concern
Just don't play with me and you won't get burned
I have only one burning desire
Oh, I'm gonna, me, do it in your fire
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire oh yeah
Oh move over over,
And let Mr. Huckleberry take over,
You know he's bad, you know he drowns,
You know who he gives it to, yeah
That's right, now dig this
You try to give me your money you better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day I have only one burning desire
Oh, can I make love over your fire?
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (funky funky fire)
Let me stand next to your fire
You better slide you ass over, girl
'Cause I'm coming through once and I'm coming the way you must be
Lyrics submitted by PrismPuck, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Fire Lyrics as written by Jimi Hendrix
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Great hendrix song, and chili's do a great cover. And ofcourse like many good songs, and many chilis songs it's about sex.
........funk funky fire.......
this is so stupid, I can't believe that this incredible song only has one comment, this is a great song, and the chili peppers do a great job with the cover, is everyone here 13 year old by the way addicts?
ya dude i love this song. everyone says thay slashed jimi's original version. I think its really fun funny and funky. im 13 too. RHCP for another 25 years!!
ya dude i love this song. everyone says thay slashed jimi's original version. I think its really fun funny and funky. im 13 too. RHCP for another 25 years!!
Great Hendrix cover, with a double funky fresh force :p
this song is weird, and wonderful, and weird. awesome song
i think they do a way better job than hendrix. chili peppers kick ass!
this is one of the most happy, energetic songs that i know. you can't listen to this song and not smile.
once, the chili peppers were playing at woodstock, and they played fire to honor jimi hendrix who had recently died, and they were accused of egging on people who coincedently had started a huge fire that night
just thought some of you might be interested
i gotta say, i prefer this version to hendrix's version, i mean yea, hendrix is a god, but on his version, he's dominated by the drums, and it isnt as upbeat and funky, which is the best thing about this version.
Chili peppers-one of the only bands to do more then one successful jimi hendrix cover!!! give them knighthods... or whatever the american version is...