I'm With You (2011)



All songs written and composed by RHCP
Producer : Rick Rubin

Flea – bass, piano, backing vocals
Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals
Josh Klinghoffer – guitars, backing vocals, keyboards, six-string bass on "Happiness Loves Company"
Chad Smith – drums, percussion

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Monarchy Of Roses

The crimson tide is flowing through your fingers as you sleep
The promise of a clean regime are promises we keep.
Do you like it rough I ask and are you on to task?
The calicoes of Pettibon where cultures come to clash

[Chorus:]
Several of my best friends wear, the colours of the crown
And Mary wants to fill it up, and Sherry wants to tear it all back down, girl
The saviour of your light
The monarchy of roses
The monarchy of roses tonight

The cloth between my former queen, her legendary stare
The holy tears that I am in, the lovely cross to bear

[Chorus:]
Several of my best friends know, the secrets of this town
And Mary wants to raise it up, and Sherry wants to spit it all around, girl
The sailors of the night
The monarchy of roses
The monarchy of roses tonight

[Chorus:]
Several of my best friends wear, the colours of the crown
And Mary wants to fill it up, and Sherry wants to tear it all back down, girl
The saviour of your light
The monarchy of roses
The monarchy of roses

Hey yeah
We all want the rose you know
I said
Hey yeah
Show us love before you go
Say I will, and then I'll say I want to
The story of love that I will never taunt you

Hey yeah
We all want the rose you know
I said
Hey yeah
Show us love before you go
Say I will, and then I'll say I want to
The story of love that I will always want you
Hey

Factory Of Faith

All my life I was swinging for the fence,
I was looking for the triple,
Never playing good defence

Gunnin' for the glitter,
Every hot and heavy hitter,
She was never really there so I couldn't really get her

I said
Factually I, I'm just a piece of it
Factually I, the very least of it

Piece of work, I was really quite a jerk
Keeping score is such a bore, a busy mind can go berserk
Oh feast on this, I was fishing for a hook
So I took a little trip, and I opened up the book

I said
Factually I, I'm just a piece of it
Factually I, the very least of it
Factually I, is just a medicine
Make you wanna cry, why don't they let us in?

[Chorus:]
Be my wife, I think you right that we should mate
Tell your friends, I got a factory of faith
Late last night, I had a dream that it was great
Tell your friends, I got a factory of faith
I got a factory of...

Crack your whip, she's confessing from the hip
She was good at getting there, but not as much for round-trip
Oh all this time, I was searching for a dream
I was living in and out of every other sex machine

I said
Factually I, I'm just a piece of it
Factually I, the very least of it
Factually I, is just a medicine
Makes you wanna cry, why don'd they let us in?

[Chorus:]
Be my wife, I think you right that we should mate
Tell your friends, I got a factory of faith
Late last night, I had a dream that it was great
Tell your friends, I got a factory of faith
I got a factory of...

Be my wife, I think you right that we should mate
Tell your friends, I got a factory of faith
Late last night, I had a dream that it was great
Tell your friends, I got a factory of faith
I got a factory of...
Faith
And love
And luh-ooh-uh-ooh-uh-ooh-uh-ooh-ove

Brendan's Death Song

Live and die before I get it done,
will you decide.
I'll take my words and turn them into sounds,
it will survive.
Because a long time ago,
I knew not to deprive.

It's safe out there and now you're everywhere,
just like the sky.
And you are love,
you are the love supreme,
you are the rye.
And when you hear this,
You know its your jam,
It's your goodbye.

[Chorus:]
Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
you know I'm almost gone.
And when the drummer drums,
he's gonna play my song,
to carry me along.

Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
You know I'm almost gone.
And when the boatman comes to ferry me away,
to where we all belong.

We your cost,
when we were feeling lost,
it's just the time.
Kateri cried,
the day her lover died,
she recognized.
Because ya gave her,
a life of real love,
it's no surprise.

The night's are long,
but the years are short,
when you're alive.
Way back when,
will never be again,
it was a time.
It's gonna catch you,
so glad I met you,
to walk a line.

[Chorus:]
Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
you know I'm almost gone.
And when the drummer drums,
he's gonna play my song,
to carry me along.

Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
You know I'm almost gone.
And when the boatman comes to ferry me away,
to where we all belong.

Come get me
Hey!

Hey!

Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!

Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
you know I'm almost gone.
And when the drummer drums,
he's gonna play my song,
to carry me along.

Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
You know I'm almost gone.
And when the boatman comes to ferry me away,
to where we all belong.

Then we live,
so every time you die,
he's in the revert sky.
Lay me down,
so when it's time to leave,
another sun will rise.

I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
you know I'm almost gone.
(I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
And when the drummer drums,
he's gonna play my song,
to carry me along.
(I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
You know I'm almost gone.
(I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
And when the boatman comes to ferry me away,
to where we all belong.
(I said yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)

Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
you know I'm almost gone.
Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
you know I'm almost gone.
Like I said you know I'm almost dead,
you know I'm almost gone.

Ethiopia

[Flea:]
"We're rolling everybody. It starts with bass."

E I O I E I A
When you give your love away,
you get a feeling for...
E I O I E I A
Live to love another day,
even when you feel unsure.
More and more I wanna raise!
Raise my bar and raise your stay.
E I O I E I A
When I lie they're wide awake,
for my son I make

[Chorus:]
Tell my boy I love him so,
Tell him so he know.
Lost in Ethiopia,
walk out in that road.

E I O I E I A
Something good gon' come your way,
just look out your door.
E I O I E I A
Tell him what you wanna say,
no matter whatcha mad at girl.

[Chorus:]
Tell my boy I love him so,
Tell him so he know.
Lost in Ethiopia,
walk out in that road.

E I O I E I A
Steal my heart to give away,
make me wanna say.
E I O I E I A
You and I are so no same,
more and more and more each day.

[Chorus:]
Tell my boy I love him so,
Tell him so he know.
Lost in Ethiopia,
walk out in that road.

Annie Wants A Baby

Lucy Reibart,
she's a friend of mine.
Later she'll go,
back and redefine the line.
It's getting longer all the time.
Oh yeah
Drinking sunshine,
she likes the taste of it.
She had a goldmine,
but then she wasted it away.
You should have seen her yesterday.
Oh yeah

[Chorus 1:]
Sent along the way,
Nothing stops the [?]
Sugar Daddy,
loves her madly.
Cosmo Sheeva,
God oh made you a believer.
I don't need to,
tend her,
why do I believe you?
Annie wants a baby now.
Annie wants a baby any way she can.

Missing pieces,
she's got a lot of em.
Time decreases,
I wish I thought of em before.
Before it's time to close the store.
Oh yeah

Installation,
a lonely sink of fame.
Some liberation,
the only seed we ever farm.
I wanna help you but I can't.
No No

[Chorus 2:]
Sent along the way,
Nothing stops the [?]
Sugar Daddy,
loves her madly.
Lover Keeva,
God uh made you a believer.
Be our soldier,
let her,
now you've gotten older.
Annie wants a baby now.
Annie wants a baby any way she can,

It's getting longer all the time.
It's time to re-design the sign.
Oh yeah
Sent along the way

Look Around

Woo!
Stiff club, its my nature,
custom love is the nomenclature.
Turn down mass confusion,
hit the road because we just keep cruisin'.
Double my fun, double my vision,
long hard look at my last decision.
Hustle here, hustle there,
hustle me bitch and you best beware.

It's emotional and I told you so,
but you had to know so I told you.
Soft walk to horizon,
one big crash that no one dies in.
This for the folks in Pay-it-ville,
it'll come true if you say it will.

[Chorus:]
Look around, look around, look around
All around, all around, all around
Look around, look around, look around
All around, all around, all around

It's emotional and I told you so,
but you had to know so I told you.
Please don't look right through me,
hurts my heart when you do that to me.
Street lights out my window,
City May breeze gonna stroke my skin though.
Dropped a lot of words on an old brick wall,
rob a lot of banks got a pedigree scrawl.
Put my peg into your square,
run around like we just don't care.

[Chorus:]
Look around, look around, look around
All around, all around, all around
Look around, look around, look around
All around, oh yeah ah
Woo!

[Bridge x4:]
Move it ah gotta get ya, wanna getcha
Move it ah gotta get ya, gonna getcha

[Chorus:]
Look around, look around, look around
All around, all around, all around
Look around, look around, look around
All around, oh yeah ah

[Outro:]
God I'm feeling small
And I'm hitting a wall
Gonna leave it all around

The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie

[Verse]
Lip stick junkie
Debunked the only one
She came back wearing a smile
Look-alike, someone drug me
They wanted to unplug me
No one here is on trial
It's just a turnaround
And we go, oh
Well then we go uh huh oh

Tick tock I want to rock you
Like the eighties
Cock blocking isn't allowed
Tugboat Shiela is into memorabilia
Who said three is a crowd
We better get it on the go

[Chorus]
Hey now
We've got to make it rain somehow
She told me to
And showed me what to do
How Maggie makes it in her cloud

I said hey now
We've got to make it rain somehow
She told me to
And showed me what to do
She knows how to make it loud

[Verse]
Raindance Maggie
Advances to the final
Who knew that she had the goods
Little did I know
Her body was one
Delicious vinyl
To your neck of the woods
I want to lick a little bit

[Chorus]
Hey now
We've got to make it rain somehow
She told me to
And showed me what to do
How Maggie makes it in her cloud.

[Bridge]
We've got the wrong girl
But not for long girl
It's in the song girl
Cause I'll be gone girl

[Chorus]
Hey now
We've got to make it rain somehow
She told me to
And showed me what to do
How Maggie makes it in her cloud

I said hey now
I want to rock this rowdy crowd
She told me to
And showed me what to do
She knows how to make it loud

[Outro]
But not for long girl
It's in the song girl
Cause I'll be gone bye bye bye yeah
Bye bye bye girl

[scat]

Bye bye girl
Bye bye girl
Bye bye

Did I Let You Know

(C'mon c'mon)

[Verse 1:]
I'm comin for you cause cause I adore you and
I'd like to get inside your mastroduction
This indecision has has got me cringin well
I can't resist the smell of your seduction
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go
Unwrap the package with a mutt persuasion
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go
I wanna dance to every day's occasion

[Chorus:]
This I know, yeah this I know! (Take me home, well take me home)
This I know we not alone! (Take me home, take me home)

[Verse 2:]
When we invision, lack of division and
The planet does another revolution
The day I blew on ya you said I grew on ya
Turns out that we are all the one solution
GO!

[*Sax Solo*]

I'm comin at you well, you are the cap too and
I like the sound of your articulations
Want to arouse her and maybe espouse her well
She showed me love with out the stipulations

[Chorus]

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3:]
I wanna lean on you, get jan and dean on ya
It's time to sway a little mass perception
I like your cheeky well, so mose and peaky and
I think the world could use a clear connection

[Chorus x2]

Did I let you know?
Would you like to go?
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go?
Did I let you know?
Would you like to go?

Goodbye Hooray

Woop Woop! Ha

Junior paints that old cafe,
he's gotta change those girls around.
Westbound drunk with lots to say,
but he never makes a sound.
Hustlers get what they deserve,
but its always half the date.
Good things come to those who wait,
like an expiration date.

[Chorus:]
See you around, I'll see you around
I'll play all night, hey don't get uptight.
I lead all your mind games astray.
Well I'll see you around, I'll see you around,
I'll play all night, hey don't get uptight.
See you, so long, goodbye, hooray.
Aww

Curb your tongue oh scallywag,
because you got no flag to wave.
Save your breath for the black and white,
every dog will have its day.

[Chorus:]
See you around, I'll see you around
I'll play all night, hey don't get uptight.
I lead all your mind games astray.
Well I'll see you around, I'll see you around,
I'll play all night, hey don't get uptight.
See you, so long, goodbye, hooray.

Well I'll see you around, I'll see you arou-hound!

[Bass Solo]

Aw yeah
Aw yeah
Aw yeah

[Chorus:]
I'll see you around, I'll see you around,
I'll play all night, hey don't get uptight.
I lead all your mind games astray.
Well I'll see you around, I'll see you around,
I'll play all night, hey don't get uptight.
See you, so long, goodbye, hooray.

Well I'll see you around, I'll see you around,
I'll see you around, I'll see you around,
I'll see you around.
Goodbye and Hooray

Well I'll see you around, I'll see you around oh nah nah nah no!

[Guitar Solo]

Happiness Loves Company

Stop marching 'cause you think you shot to number one,
Counting days and skipping your stones into the sun.
Overrated on the form it goes to where you turn,
I'll be yours tonight,
Living the dream of a meteorite!

Stop jumping 'cause we got something to say, yeah
Young lovers keep it pumping in the streets of L.A., yeah

(Ba bo ba bi ba bo bap ba bo ba bi ba bo bop)
Short stroking butterfly,
better to go for broke.

(Ba bo ba bi ba bo bap ba bo ba ba)
What you're smoking maryjane?
It doesn't make you choke.

(Ba bo ba bi ba bo bap ba bo ba bi ba bo bop)
Jumping the fence, riding the waves,
can you take a joke?

(Ba bo ba bi ba bo bap ba bo ba ba)
I'll be yours today,
living the dream with a capital K!

Stop jumping 'cause we got something to say, yeah
Young lovers keep it pumping in the streets of L.A., yeah

Tell me now, tell you how,
just show me where to sit.

Make time for love and your happiness.
The mothers of invention are the best.
We all learn and struggle with some loneliness.
A tender mess for everyone I guess.
I guess.

Half blinded,
I'm reminded how to find myself
Nickel and dime I think,
it's time to play some musical chairs.
Dirty laundry, what a wandering,
ask her if she cares.
I'll be yours and more,
better than ever like never before!

Stop jumping 'cause we got something to say, yeah
Young lovers keep it pumping in the streets of L.A.

Make time for love and your happiness.
The mothers of invention are the best.
We all know and struggle with some loneliness.
A tender mess for everyone I guess.
I guess.

(Ba bo ba bi ba bo bap ba bo ba bi ba bo bop)
Sweet talking, theres a marker,
to your part of town.

(Ba bo ba bi ba bo bap ba bo ba ba)
Never again,
we're trying to see your love supremed and bound.

(Ba bo ba bi ba bo bap ba bo ba bi ba bo bop)
Is it ever meant to be,
and is it so profound?

(Ba bo ba bi ba bo bap ba bo ba ba)
Is it you and me play it to one make history.
A history.
Said yeah,
oh yeah.
Said yeah,
oh yeah.
Said oh yeah,
oh yeah!