I have been listening to Stadium Arcadium all day, and something has just occurred to me. While the Red Hot Chili Peppers are, frankly, unrivaled in my book in terms of funky, melodic sound, sometimes their lyrics are just too kooky– like, so much so that they make you cringe. I don’t know whether this is just Anthony Kiedis seeing the world in a different way than the rest of us or what, but lately it’s just been making me laugh.
Here are some examples:
1. Use two sticks to make it in the nature
2. Show love with no remorse and, climb onto your sea horse
3. Wrap me up in cinnamon, like when I’m in Michigan
4. Double chins and bowling pins and holy Presbyterians
5. Eldorado– won the lotto
6. Life is my friend, underwater violin
7. Pushing a broom out into space
8. "so serene she gives to me my toast and marmalade/
what more can i say she’s my sexy mexican maid"
9. "like a pack of mad hatters who come from outer space/
our swinging’s gonna shatter every stone cold face"
10. "aim the flame of freedom at the lames and sours/
we’re the best of the west and the west is ours."
Don’t get me wrong– I’m not knocking them. In fact, Anthony Kiedis was my first-ever rock star crush, and I still think he’s attractive (aside from the obvious fact that he’s probably done it with everyone in the — no, let’s just leave it at everyone), and this band has had the most impressive series of consistently good albums out there. The thing is, I can’t tell if these lyrics are the result of scraping the bottom of the lyric barrel, or if Kiedis is just on another planet– Planet Rhyme, perhaps. I would just be remiss if I didn’t point out the sheer looniness of these lyrics. After careful consideration, I think I have to declare him a Muppet.
That is all.