Red Hot Chili Peppers

One Big Mob

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I am you are me
Good woman said you gotta believe
Submerge into the urge of we
Deliciously the mystery

CHORUS:
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea

Ooze into into my noodle
East or west shepherd or poodle
Ladybug pinetree
To mingle with the bumblebee
A lover to the sun
And a brother to the cool breeze

CHORUS

Scrawled upon the wall
Of a bathroom stall
A stranger wrote a note
That spoke to all

One two buckle my shoe
Take care of me
'Cause I might be you

CHORUS

We live in the city
We live in the jungle
It's time to be drinking
A thimble humble
Everything you ever see
Is never more than you and me
Give it on in to the beauty of the MYSTERY

One big mob in one big home
A broken home
I'd like to share some air with you
Some air with you
A morning forest full of truths
The green is blue
The head that's getting pregnant lives
To give and give
What was I thinking in my head
The color red
Breaking hearts instead of bread
Something I said
Checkmated by frustration...
...Need to be cut loose
A different kind of being lost
...A sullen cost

Picaboo street
in Timbuktu
Do I need repeat
That a boy
named Sue
Rockin'
to the beat
Of the kangaroo
Let me kiss your feet
And your
forehead
too

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prismpuck On Jan 19, 2002

I am you are me
Good woman said you gotta believe
Submerge into the urge of we
Deliciously the mystery

CHORUS:
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea 
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea

Ooze into into my noodle
East or west shepherd or poodle
Ladybug pinetree
To mingle with the bumblebee
A lover to the sun
And a brother to the cool breeze

CHORUS

Scrawled upon the wall
Of a bathroom stall
A stranger wrote a note
That spoke to all

One two buckle my shoe
Take care of me
'Cause I might be you

CHORUS

We live in the city
We live in the jungle
It's time to be drinking
A thimble humble
Everything you ever see
Is never more than you and me
Give it on in to the beauty of the MYSTERY

One big mob in one big home
A broken home
I'd like to share some air with you
Some air with you
A morning forest full of truths
The green is blue
The head that's getting pregnant lives 
To give and give
What was I thinking in my head
The color red
Breaking hearts instead of bread
Something I said
Checkmated by frustration...
...Need to be cut loose
A different kind of being lost
...A sullen cost

Picaboo street
in Timbuktu
Do I need repeat
That a boy
named Sue
Rockin'
to the beat
Of the kangaroo
Let me kiss your feet
And your
forehead
too

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2002-01-19 17:56:12

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by filipkko

19y ago

The begining of the song which aficianado mentioned: I am you are me. Might be seen from 2 different points of view. 1st is that it means nothing and it is just put together to sound good like lyrics at the begining of I am the Walrus (Beatles) - I am he, As you are he, As you are me, And we are all together. Or the 2nd possibility might be as Ghoelix says all the people of the world - we are the same, we percieve reality the same, we have (almost) the same needs thats why: I am you are me.

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by MrShampooMan

14y ago

This is what I've picked up from the song (my perception has changed from living in another country for 5 months) I've just been living in the outback of Australia in a small aboriginal community and one word the idiginous always used in any context was "mob". Your family was your mob, your friends were your mob, anything could belong to a mob, even animals. Flea is from Australia and the song also makes another Australian reference "Rockin' to the beat of a kangaroo" so I recon they are using the word mob as the aboriginals use it as in we're all connected/related. One line that I notice no one's talked about is "Breaking hearts instead of bread" I really like that line alot, and I think it touches on how we might be all one big mob, related, yet we still hurt each other instead of helping each other (eg, we rob each our neighbours, we beat our kids, we lie to anyone)