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The Great Apes
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS SONG
Performances
0
Released On
Unlimited Love
April 01, 2022
Studio Album
Recorded On
November 2020 - August 2021
Shangri La Studios · Malibu, CA
Lyrics
She's a box car rolling by
Like a black star in the sky

She's a failure, once or twice
Like a trailer spinning out upon dizzy ice

Flowers fly when we grow old
Snakes get high or so I'm told

She's an eagle out on the road
Like my favorite Beatle, everyone bought and sold

All my love and half my kisses
Superstar go do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free

Come on now you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free

She's a rain bird on the prowl
Like an urge to be yourself that you won't allow

She's a forest that we burned
Just a blueprint for a life that we never learned

Flowers fly when we grow old
Snakes get high or so I'm told

She's a lynch mob on the street
Take another step and I will kill the beat

All my love and half my kisses
Superstar go do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free

Come on now you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free

She's a bus stop, glockenspiel
She's a simulation life that you thought was real

She's an image that we blurred
It's a pixelated panther, now let it purr

All my love and half my kisses
Superstar go do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free

Come on now you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free

I just want the great apes to be free
I just want the great apes to be free
Performances
Partial Performances

'The Great Apes' has never been performed live