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Red Hot Chili Peppers - 21st Century Song Meanings

All the creatures, on the beaches
makin' waves in the motion picture
won't you keep this, in between us
^
attacks globalization and movie industry, the condition and erosion of our wetlands and beaches

the dollar bill will
mentally ill bill
while mom and dad take your don't-be-sad-pill
turn the screw and twist my language
don't frustrate me I'm contagious
^
talks about increasing # of people with socio-mental disorders (anxiety, depression, adhd, etc), degree of partisanship in politics and news media

it's my favorite combination
comin' down with the favored nations
deep rotation, mutilation
learn to give and take dictation
oh, oh oh, oh oh
like the cain and abel
oh,oh oh, oh oh
time to run this table
^

Submitted by: mz.Kiedis
Added: 2006-11-05 03:57:08     Rating:

I really don't know but here my guess is that the song is about the band moving on together and continuing to make music, along with memories of their old times - it's not lost but they are moving into a new age.

Submitted by: midnitegreen
Added: 2007-05-09 17:40:34     Rating:

I think it's about how we forgot about god.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-05-23 22:25:59     Rating:

I think it's about the 21st century basically and how we try and make what is wrong right and what is right wrong...

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-08-17 09:21:05     Rating:

I think the last person is right, it's about how everything that you say is right is right. There is no ethics in the world, because right and wrong is what you say it is. And if anyone says otherwise people hate you under the excuse that your racist although they are just as racist, maybe even more because there ethics is that whatever feels good is good.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-03-13 22:34:07     Rating:

With things going all out of hand the 21'st century represents to me a metaphoric slap in the face. global warming, inflation, jobs going overseas, interest rate hikes, crude oil on the increase terrorism and ignorance has come to this '21st century' and of course the mentally ill bill. where everything we previously had worked for is seeming more and more out of reach, but in the universe as the song illustrates ' theirs a reason for the 21st century, I'm not to sure but I know that its meant to be, and that its meant to be'

its ultimately comes across as standing outside the square and observing the present and seeing the future as changing dramatically, its allready happend the industrial revolution is beginning to decline as things get out of hand, more and more people are having metal issues and 'don't-be-sad-pill' and we've branched off into alternative energy sources just as the Hubble telescope looks back into the beginning of time and spiritualism is becoming more globally accepted.

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