A história por trás da criação desta música não foi claramente documentada, mas como muitas músicas do Red Hot Chili Peppers, é provável que ela explore temas de amor, perda, e experiências pessoais dos membros da banda.
Tom: Am
Introdução:
Am
F
C
G
x2
Am
F
I'm an ocean in your bedroom
C
G
Make you feel warm, make you wanna re-assume
Am
F
C
G
Now we know it all for sure.
Am
F
I'm a dancehall, dirty breakbeat
C
G
make the snow fall up from underneath your feet.
Am
F
C
G
Not alone, I'll be there, tell me when you wanna go!
Am
F
I'm a meth lab, first rehab
C
G
Take it all off and step inside the running cab
Am
F
C
G
There's a love that knows the way
Am
F
I'm the rainbow in your jail cell
C
G
All the memories of everything you've ever smelled.
Am
F
C
G
Not alone, I'll be there, tell me when you wanna go!
Am
F
Sideways falling, more will be revealed my friend
C
G
Don't forget me, I can't hide it
Am
F
C
G
Come again get me excited
Am
F
I'm an inbred and a pothead
C
G
Two legs that you spread inside a tool shed
Am
F
C
G
Now we know it all for sure.
Am
F
I could show you to the free field
C
G
Overcome and more will always be revealed
Am
F
C
G
Not alone, I'll be there, tell me when you wanna go!
Am
F
Sideways falling, more will be revealed my friend
C
G
Don't forget me, I can't hide it
Am
F
C
G
Come again get me excited
Am
F
Sideways falling, more will be revealed my friend
C
G
Don't forget me, I can't hide it
Am
F
C
G
there's a match now let me let me light it
Am
F
C
G
Am
F
I'm the bloodstain on your shirtsleeve
C
G
Coming down and more are coming to believe.
Am
F
C
G
Now we know it all for sure.
Am
F
Make the hair stand up on your arm
C
G
Teach you how to dance inside the funny farm
Am
F
C
G
Not alone, I'll be there, tell me when you wanna go.