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Pepper's front man, Anthony Kiedis
Have you ever loved a song to the point of ridiculousness but no matter how hard you try, you just can’t understand the lyrics? What was the artist thinking when writing your favorite tune? Let’s delve a little deeper…
I Could Have Lied - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blood Sugar Sex Magik – (Warner Brothers - 1991)
It may surprise Peppers fans to know that Anthony Kiedis wrote I Could Have Lied after a short and rather tumultuous affair with none other than sultry 80s pop icon, Sinead O’Connor. According to Kiedis, who met O’Connor at a European music festival in 1989, he was already a huge fan…and had a thing for bald girls. I Could Have Lied was born when O’Connor dumped Kiedis via voice message on his answering machine. In his memoir, ‘Scar Tissue’, Kiedis reflects on the message that shattered him at the time. “Hey, Anthony, this is Sinead. I’m moving out of Los Angeles tomorrow and I don’t want you to call me or come by before I leave. Good-bye.” “It had gone overnight from ‘can’t wait to see you again’, to don’t call and don’t come by,” he recalls. The lyrics of the song, particularly “I could have lied, I’m such a fool” imply that Kiedis was cheated out of expressing his true feelings. He opened up, then, in true rock star fashion - was shot down. The music was inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtower.
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