A drop in the ocean: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Meet Me At The Corner

Let's spend some minutes with Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their new album is out and the poetic lyrics are worth your attention. 

Now let's have a look at Meet Me At The Corner. If you are not sure about the meaning, just click on the highlighted words, they are linked to Cambridge Dictionary. The words in bold italics are explained below the lyrics.


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MEET ME AT THE CORNER


Please don't ask me who, who you think I am,
I could live without that, I'm just a modest man.
Meet me at the corner and oh, tell me what to do.

Cause I messed up on you, and had I known all that I do now,
I'm guessing we're through now,
Proceeding into the forest, I will lay around and wait,
And I'll wait for you.

Please don't ask me where, where you think I've been,
I've been a lot of places but this could be my win.
Meet me at the corner where I'll, tell me what to do.
Cause I messed up on you, and had I known all that I do now,
I'm guessing we're through now,
Proceeding into the forest, I will lay around and wait,
And I'll wait for you.

I feel so bad, I thought you'd wanna know,
I feel so bad, I thought you'd wanna know,
Something I wanna show, I thought you'd wanna know.

Please don't say you want to keep in touch,
I bare to see you on the corner, that I just can't bare.
Meet me at the corner and oh, tell me what to do.

Cause I messed up on you, and had I known all that I do now,
I'm guessing we're through now,
Proceeding into the forest, I will lay around and wait,
And I'll wait for you.

And I turn, I turn my head when I thought I saw a sign from the gods,
A sign from the gods that you were meant to be mine, and it's fine,
Taking it all for a ride til the day when it's gone,
I mystified my way, it all went wrong when it's gone,
I live and I learn and I lose and I win, but it's better whenever,
Whenever I'm here, thank you girl for everywhere that I've been. 
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lay around - to understand this expression you have to know the meaning of lay and play around, still not easy to translate though ...


bare - to bare sg means to make it bare. Bare, as an adjective, has two meanings: without any clothes and empty. He can't make the corner empty.


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