Wet Sand; Red Hot Chili Peppers

“Wet Sand” is the 13th track on the disc 1 (Jupiter) of “Stadium Arcadium”, the Red Hot Chili Peppers latest album. This double album was the most acclaimed of all already released by the band, winning two Grammy Awards, one for “Best Rock Album” and other for “Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal”.

23 years after Kiedis and Flea having played their first riffs together, the band having gone through overdoses, breakdowns and a huge success around the world, having released 9 studio albums and recorded more than 130 songs, here comes “Wet Sand”, the only one in which Kiedis whistles while Frusciante soles his eletric guitar.

In Songfacts.com I discovered that Kiedis wrote it inspired “about a complicated, dysfunctional woman I’ve fallen in love with,” but I don’t know where they took it. So...

My shadow’s side so amplified
Keeps coming back dissatisfied
Elementary son, but it’s sooo...
My love affair with everywhere
Was innocent why do you care
Someone start the car, time to go...
You’re the best I know

My sunny side has up and died
I’m betting that when we collide
The Universe will shift into a low
The travesties that we have seen
Are treating me like benzedrine
Automatic laughter from a pro

My, what a good day for a walk outside
I’d like to get to know you a little better, baby
God knows that I really tried
My, what a good day for a take out bride
I’d like to say we did it for the better of...

I saw you there so unaware
Those hummingbirds all in your hair
Elementary son, but it’s so...
The disrepair of Norma Jean
Could not compare to your routine
Balarama beauty going toe to toe

My, what a good day for let it slide
I’d like to say we did it for the better of..

I thought about it and I brought it out
I’m motivated by the lack of doubt
I’m consecrated but I’m not devout
The mother, the father, the daughter

Right on the verge just one more dose
I’m traveling from coast to coast
My theory isn’t perfect but it’s close
I’m almost there why should I care
My heart is hurting when I share
Someone open up and let it show

My, what a good day for a walk outside
I’d like to think we did it for the better of...

I thought about it and I brought it out
I’m motivated by the lack of doubt
I consecrated but I’m not devout
The mother, the father, the daughter

Oh, you don’t form in the wet sand
You don’t form at all
Woah, you don’t form in the wet sand
I do, yeah...

You don’t form in the wet sand
You don’t form at all
Woah, you don’t form in the wet sand
I do, yeah!