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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Charlie Song Meanings

i can't come up with all of it but I would say the "When I pick up on that smell
Pick it up and run like hell
Little woman save me some
Better get up on your run" part is about smelling someone possibly a ex-girlfriend hense the "little woman" part doing drugs maybe weed since he is smelling it( other wise i'd say it was heroin) and him taking some of it or her giving him some. And the "So much more than
Charlie's wakin' me
To my core and
Charlie's shakin' me
And tell my story
And Charlie's makin' me
And Charlie's makin' me smile
Oh oh now" part is about him doing the drug and how they made his body and mind feel.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-02-06 18:23:21     Rating:

Listen to this song and the interpretation is it's about strippers. just about any and every part of the song is about strip clubs, getting a lap danc and so on.

"and charlie's making me smile"
"lay down, get kissed"

we all know the "stripper" smell
"when I pick up on that smell, pick it up and run like hell"

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-02-26 03:41:43     Rating:

Pretty sure this is about cocaine..
Charlie.. 'C'..
"Charlie's waking me.. Charlie's shaking me.. Charlie's making me smile.."
"Eveready it in disguise.."
Totally coke.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-04-24 18:10:54     Rating:

You guys should read Anthony's biography, Scar Tissue. He doesn't do drugs anymore, so it's probably not about drugs.

Submitted by: midnitegreen
Added: 2007-05-09 17:46:57     Rating:

Although I respect Anthony, it seems like it's about coke. Maybe the past?

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-05-23 21:45:35     Rating:

Theres a video that comes with the special edition of Stadium Arcadium in which Anthony, John, Flea, and Chad discuss every song on the album..

Charlie's supposed to be your imagination or something like that.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-06-28 22:59:59     Rating:

Charlie is a little boy making a doll
me is the doll

Submitted by: jukeday
Added: 2007-07-02 10:41:47     Rating:

When I was younger, and I used to ask my dad what to do, because I was bored, he'd tell me to "play with Charlie", meaning use my imagination. Perhaps its something like that? Charlie is your imagination?

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-08-08 06:16:17     Rating:

It's about coke or better yet crack. When I pick up on that smell? Did you retards read Scar Tissue? How do you all know he isn't using the book went up to Californication or By the way. He relapsed a lot in that book and it was mostly coke or crack the heroin was just to come down from the coke what makes you think he didn't again or even singing about it because he misses it once your an addict you live with it forever.

Submitted by: dmt2jb
Added: 2007-09-24 21:52:20     Rating:

Ak said in an interview about the charlie video that it is "the spirit of imagination. The wierd universe of magic and electicity that exists between your ears that allow you to think and do whatever you want at any time." You can see it on youtube at (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9cBSs1hFpBA).

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-10-15 01:02:29     Rating:

Anthony says on a Vh1 interview that "Charlie" is your imagination so the song means different things for everyone...in other words "Charlie" in this song is whatever your imagination wants it to be.

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