The 10 Greatest Songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Breaking The Girl - Two strange, lonely people find each other. There are a lot of meanings and conclusions you can draw from this song, but that is the most prominent message.


Lyrical Highlights

She was a girl, soft yet estranged/ we were the two, our lives rearranged. A feeling of love that day/twisting and turning, your feelings are burning, you're breaking the girl/she meant you no harm/think you're so clever, but now you must sever/he loves no one else/she was a girl, left alone/feeling the need to make me her home/the twilight of love had arrived

Soul To Squeeze - This song, to me, is about searching for personal solace, and then using your newfound strength to help someone you care for. . Slow, sad, with a twangy guitar

Where I go I just don't know
I got to got to gotta take it slow.
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna give you some of my good time.


Lyrical Highlights

I got a bad disease, but from my brain is where I bleed/Insanity it seems, has got me by my soul to squeeze/where all the love for me, with all the dying trees I scream/ Today love smiled on me, it took away my pain say please/oh, so polite indeed/well, I got everything I need/take away my self destruction/it's bitter baby, and it's very sweet, I'm on a rollercoaster but I'm on my feet/take me to the river, lay me on your shore/I could not forget, but I will not endeavor, simple pleasures aren't as special but I won't regret it never

Sir Psycho Sexy - This song is brilliant. A few of my favorite lines from any songs come from this song.. And the guitar solo? Good God, this song is amazing! I first heard this song back when I was a sweet, sheltered thirteen-year-old girl living with her granny in the boondocks. I played it obsessively. I never turned up the volume very much, though, because I thought she'd hear the delightfully vulgar/sexual lyrics.


Lyrical Highlights

Now I lay me down to sleep/I pray the funk will make me freak/If I should die before I waked/Allow me Lord to rock out naked/Calling up a little girl with a bullwhip, lickity-split, go snap SNAP/girl getting' off all in my lap