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What I've got you've got to give it to your mamma
What I've got you've got to give it to your pappa
What I've got you've got to give it to your daughter
You do a little dance and then you drink a little water

What I've got you've got to get it put it in you (x3)
Reeling with the feeling don't stop continue

I realize I don't want to be a miser
Confide wisely you'll be the wiser
Young blood is the lovin' upriser
How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser

Give it away give it away give it away now (x3)
I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper

Greedy little people in a sea of distress
Keep your more to receive your less
Unimpressed by material excess
Love is free love me say hell yes

Low brow but I rock a little know how
No time for the piggies or the hoosegow
Get smart get down with the pow wow
Never been a better time than right now

Bob Marley poet and a prophet
Bob Marley taught me how to off it
Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it
Goodness me can't you see I'm gonna cough it

Give it away give it away give it away now (x6)
I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper


Lucky me swimmin' in my ability
Dancin' down on life with agility
Come and drink it up from my fertility
Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility

My mom I love her cuz she love me
Long gone are the times when she scrub me
Feelin' good my brother gonna hug me
Drink up my juice young love chug-a-lug me

There's a river born to be a giver
Keep you warm won't let you shiver
His heart is never gonna wither
Come on everybody time to deliver

Give it away give it away give it away now (x3)
I can't tell iff I'm a king pin or a pauper

What I've got you've got to give it to your mamma
What I've got you've got to give it to your pappa
What I've got you've got to give it to your daughter
You do a little dance and then you drink a little water

What I've got you've got to get it put it in you (x3)
Reeling with the feeling don't stop continue

I realize I don't want to be a miser
confide with Sly you'll be the wiser
Young blood is the lovin' upriser
How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser

Give it away give it away give it away now (x4)
Give it away now (x20)

Writers: Anthony Kiedis , JOHN FRUSCIANTE , CHAD SMITH , Michael 'Flea' Balzary

Lyrics © MoeBeToBlame

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Red Hot Chili Peppers released an atmospheric new song, "Not the One" — the third preview of their upcoming album Unlimited Love.

The track offers a more tranquil vibe than their previously issued cuts "Poster Child" and "Black Summer," with singer Anthony Kiedis crooning over a dewy piano, a restrained rhythm section and John Frusciante's birdsong-like guitar swells. "I'm not the person that you thought I was / I'm not the one you thought you knew," he sings. "I do most anything to make you think that I'm the one / I do it all to get to you."

You can hear "Not the One" below.

Kiedis detailed the song's evolution in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, noting how it originated with an idea from bassist Flea.

"[He] had put together a drum machine and bass song in his cobweb-covered garage," the singer said. "It was not what you hear today for 'Not the One' because the bridge was the verse and the chorus was the bridge, and it was completely inverted. Every day after band practice, I ride home and I listen to what we've done that day over and over and over and over hoping that it sparks something or that I hear the right melody or something, anything. In that case, I started hearing that entire song on the way home but completely inverted from the way he had arranged it.

"When you start something, you get a little bit married to it," he continued. "I came in the next day and I said, 'Flea, I know this is not what you had in mind, but is it all right if I sing the verse over the chorus and the chorus over the bridge?' He's like, 'Yeah, do whatever you want.' I was like, 'Really?' He's like, 'Yeah, yeah, whatever' … because he wrote a beautiful thing. I thought maybe he wanted to keep it as it was written. On this particular day, he was so supportive, and that was super helpful. I think I was going through a very lonely and introspective month. This idea came out about 'I think I know who you are, but maybe I don't. You think you know who I am, but maybe you don't.' And especially in intimate relationships, we know we all present something and people always have an idea, but what would happen if we just showed each other our very worst from the very start?"

Unlimited Love, the band’s 12th studio project, is out on April 1. The album, which follows 2016’s The Getaway, is their first since Frusciante's return to the group in 2019.

"When we started writing material, we began by playing old songs by people like Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, the Kinks, the New York Dolls, Richard Barrett and others," the guitarist said in a statement announcing the record. "Ever so gradually, we started bringing in new ideas, and turning jams into songs, and after a couple of months, the new stuff was all we were playing. The feeling of effortless fun we had when we were playing songs by other people stayed with us the whole time we were writing, and for me, this record represents our love for and faith in each other."

Detailing how it spent "thousands of hours" preparing for the sessions, the band noted its only goal was "to get lost in the music."

"Each of the songs on our new album Unlimited Love is a facet of us, reflecting our view of the universe," they wrote. "This is our life's mission. We work, focus and prepare so that when the biggest wave comes, we are ready to ride it. The ocean has gifted us a mighty wave and this record is the ride that is the sum of our lives."

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