What I think this song comes to say is the endless battle Anthony had with his addictions "I'm a meth lab first rehab" (There are a more lot of lines pointing towards drugs in the song), And "Don't Forget Me" means that the drugs always call him saying his name trying to seduce him back into it "I'm the rainbow in your jail cell", and even when the drugs are talking to do him, they themselves know that's it a bad thing to do "I'm the bloodstain, On your shirt sleeve" but while he listening to what they are saying, He knows that he's a new person now, and he doesn't need drugs to feel good anymore, He wants those memories of his addictions gone but he still misses the feeling of being high "All the memories of
everything you've ever smelled" He can't hide his thoughts and feeling about drugs, but he wants to overcome them, And he could only do that with a help from a lover (or some) "There's a love that knows the way" (Possibly the best line in history, but those are my personal thoughts, haha). The song ends with illusions he might have had while high, "Teach you how to dance inside the funny farm" and the final lines are one last desperate call from the drugs "I'll be there when you want to go" "Tell me when you want to go". The final line reads "More will be revealed my friend, and this is more aimed to me, I don't know about other people, but they knew how much meaning this song before even finishing it up, Perhaps they wanted to see if we can find all the nods and meaning this song actually has? Who knows...
He doesn't want to go back to it, because he knows how bad it is for him.
I want to say more, but I don't want to at the same time, this song has a lot of meaning to me and I'm sure to RHCP themselves too. And I still haven't discovered everything about this song, I don't think I ever will, but this song is surely one of RHCP's best creations in my opinion.
What I think this song comes to say is the endless battle Anthony had with his addictions "I'm a meth lab first rehab" (There are a more lot of lines pointing towards drugs in the song), And "Don't Forget Me" means that the drugs always call him saying his name trying to seduce him back into it "I'm the rainbow in your jail cell", and even when the drugs are talking to do him, they themselves know that's it a bad thing to do "I'm the bloodstain, On your shirt sleeve" but while he listening to what they are saying, He knows that he's a new person now, and he doesn't need drugs to feel good anymore, He wants those memories of his addictions gone but he still misses the feeling of being high "All the memories of everything you've ever smelled" He can't hide his thoughts and feeling about drugs, but he wants to overcome them, And he could only do that with a help from a lover (or some) "There's a love that knows the way" (Possibly the best line in history, but those are my personal thoughts, haha). The song ends with illusions he might have had while high, "Teach you how to dance inside the funny farm" and the final lines are one last desperate call from the drugs "I'll be there when you want to go" "Tell me when you want to go". The final line reads "More will be revealed my friend, and this is more aimed to me, I don't know about other people, but they knew how much meaning this song before even finishing it up, Perhaps they wanted to see if we can find all the nods and meaning this song actually has? Who knows...
He doesn't want to go back to it, because he knows how bad it is for him.
I want to say more, but I don't want to at the same time, this song has a lot of meaning to me and I'm sure to RHCP themselves too. And I still haven't discovered everything about this song, I don't think I ever will, but this song is surely one of RHCP's best creations in my opinion.