Slow cheetah (by RHCP)

Wasting time by surfing on net, and suddenly I miss with one of my favorite band, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

A few days ago I’ve heard theirs song, one of a good song to be my great list for their song titled Slow cheetah, this song tells about a man (Anthony, the vocalist, perhaps) trying to get out from his addiction of drugs, but could not get out from it, you may check the first line of its lyrics which said:

“Waking up dead, inside of my head
Would never, never do, there is no med
No medicine to take”

Anthony try to send his message to his listener how hard he had been tried to get some help to pulling him from his addiction but there is no one or nothing can help him (there is no med, no medicine to take).

And so many words in that song, could be much have more interpretations for it, but the closest to the meaning of the lyrics is as I wrote above. And here the complete lyrics of this slow rock song:

SLOW CHEETAH 

Waking up dead, inside of my head
Would never, never do, there is no med
No medicine to take
I’ve had a chance to be insane
Asylum from the falling rain
I’ve had a chance to break
It’s so bad, it’s got to be good
Mysterious girl misunderstood
Dressed like a wedding cake
Any other day and I might play
A funeral march for Bonnie Bray
Why try and run away?

Slow cheetah come before my forest,
Look like it's on today
Slow cheetah come, it's so euphoric,
No matter what they say

I know a girl, she worked in a store
She knew not what her life was for
She barely knew her name
They tried to tell her she would never be
As happy as a girl in a magazine
She bought it with her pay

Slow cheetah come before my forest,
Look like it's on today
Slow cheetah come, it's so euphoric,
No matter what they say

Everyone has so much to say
They talk, talk, talk their lives away
Don’t even hesitate
Walking on down to the burial ground
It’s a very old dance with a merry old sound
Looks like its on today

Slow cheetah come before my forest,
Look like it's on today
Slow cheetah come, it's so euphoric,
No matter what they say

Slow cheetah come before my forest,
Look like it's on today
Slow cheetah come, it's so euphoric,
No matter what they say

And some said the words “Slow Cheetah”, is to figure a drug dealer or a bimbo whose sale drugs, it could be true since we can find a metaphor “Look like it’s on today” which is mean “I have a new customer” and usually use in among of junkies.

I’ve confused with word “bonnie brae”, I have no idea at all what is Anthony point to…. Thanks to Google, I’ve found it and it was a place which providing services of therapeutic learning environments for troubled adolescent boys who have been neglected, abused, or abandoned. While bonnie brae meaning a ‘pretty hill’ in Scottish.

Flea (the bassist), very much like to this song, and I agree with him, this is the good song…