Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers is an award-winning American funk rock band hailing from Los Angeles, California.

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Dreams of a Samurai - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Album: The Getaway
genre: Alternative Rock Funk Rock

Standing naked in your kitchen
Feeling free that I could be alive
Clearly I’m a contradiction
Too young to be my wife

A peaceful storm is never hectic
Her mellow voice that I could be within
The uniform is anorexic
A jealous choice won’t win

A metamorphosis samurai
Y’got a little lord fish and I don’t know why I got a
Metamorphosis samurai

Paint your face cause I’m a black foot
I thought I counted up the fireflies
Close enough to get a good look
Time to mobilize

A metamorphosis samurai
Y’got a little lord fish and I don’t know why I got a
Metamorphosis samurai

I’m a lonely lad
I’ve lost myself out on the range
I don’t remember much
So don’t ask me I’ve gone insane

Taking acid in a graveyard
Stealing food to keep the night alive
Every day I try to play hard
Even with my lies

The day they found you on a tour bus
The news was barren as a desert bone
The tabloids made a kind of small fuss
A couple pictures shown

I’m a lonely lad
I’ve lost myself out on the range
I don’t remember much
So don’t ask me I’ve gone insane

Slowly turning into driftwood
No one ever wants to die alone
Thinking that a pretty gift could
Make you less unknown

Dirty sneakers on the pavement
The brilliant features of a common man
See the miracle of your life
No one ever can

I’m a lonely lad
I’ve lost myself out on the range
I don’t remember much
So don’t ask me I’ve gone insane

See the world go by
The changes that we entertain
I don’t recall it all
Remember I have gone insane

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In an official track-by-track commentary Anthony Kiedis stated: "It was one of the ones that Brian liked of our bunch, even though he hated the time signature. Brian doesn't like to muck about with complicated, atypical time signatures and that song is in something bizarre like 8/5 or just a time signature that you would never hear on the radio or in pop/rock music ever. And it made it very, very difficult to write to. So, I would drive around Echo Park and downtown, cranking that song because I love the energy and the vibe; it was psychedelic and it was free and it was explosive and it gave you a great feeling. But, trying to sing along with that time was just…I couldn't figure out where to start, where to stop, and how to compose a poem that would sing rhythmically within that. So, I failed for probably nine months, just lost, and every now and then I would sing Brian ideas like: 'I think this might work.' And he would be like: 'You can't nod your head to that, there's no head nodding to that.' He wants to be able to go like this when he's hearing music and that was like… you just couldn't get it".

Song details

Publishing: Warner Bros.
Co-Production: Danger Mouse
Recording: Kennie Takahasi
Mix Engineering: Nigel Godrich, Samuel Petts-Davies
Composition: Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith
Vocals: Anthony Kiedis
Release Date: June 17, 2016