Red Hot Chili Peppers - This Ticonderoga Lyrics

this is the only song I skip on an otherwise flawless album

This song is unique, just how the tempo, changes and how it is, the changes in mood is so dramatic. Which makes this song amazing! But when it switches to the slow paced the song is ___ I cant describe it in words. The song is for jamming out. And the song it self is just a bunch of different emotions. Like scream at the end. And how the notes are played. and syncopation between the notes! AMAZING.

3:24 how the hell did Anthony scream like that???

Honestly the best thing about this album is how it doesn't ever have any songs that seem to be throwaway sings at all, each song fits and I love this album for that, it's the only chilli peppers album that has that

I love this song!!!!

BRAZIL JUL 2019

Wow, SuperTramp vibes here. Love RHCP's funk style.

I met a man in a rock and roll band he said won't you come with me
I let him know that I could not go you see I get mine for free
We are all just soldiers in this battlefield of life
One thing that's for certain is my burning appetite
Step inside the emotional ride I could use some company
Illusionary is so damn scary I call my best friend Flea
This Ticonderoga is an element that shines
Connected by the great unknown between us there are lines
Yes I told her that
I'm the older cat
Can I scratch your back all day
I would not have it any other way, well
Means so much to me
Can you see the we
What are we ever gonna do when all I want to be is next to you
I took a girl from the underworld and I held her way too tight
When it's all been said and done she was not up for the fight
We are all just soldiers in this open field of time
Hoping to get with you when you get right with your mind
It's my favorite
So I savor it
I must report that life is short
So of your love I'll take ten quarts well
There's no end to this
Don't pretend to miss
You and you would not repent for sitting on my elephant and
Am I crazy to
Join the lazy zoo
All these human butterflies and
Cactus flowers swollen eyes and
I want the devil's share
Of you I do declare
Again I'm asking can I do
When all these animals want to be just like you
I met a girl with long black hair and she opened up so wide
A daffodil growing in Brazil and I picked her for my bride
We are all just soldiers in this epic loving flight
And no one that I know has ever really done it right
Done it right
Done it right
Done it right
Done it right

Underrated song :(

"Going of the rails on a crazy train"

1:59 I love that whole part

One of those songs you just don't want to end. Fantastic.

Yea bro 😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👌

LAKE TITICACA

3:12 anyone notice those extra bass notes added in the end it was orgasmic the first time I heard it

cool song !!!!

Earthlings - Stungun!!!

I have to say, this whole album itself are my teenage emotions in a nutshell.

one of my favorite songs in this world thx for the beautiful music

*I CALL MY BEST FRIEND FLEA*

One of my favorite songs from this album and probably any of their albums as well

Either this is about the battle fort or the pencil brand

RedHotReddy actually I think this song is about being absolutely stoned lol

Johnny Horstman oh, that seems a lot more settling for an album like this one. The Getaway is damn good but sometimes it's really confusing.

@Ralphie H i think it might be about getting stoned but also an attempt to get clean and then falling off the wagon.

This Ticonderoga is an element that shines

Connected by the great unknown between us there are lines

It's my favorite

So I savor it

I must report that life is short...


Obviously the pencil-didn't you notice the English assignment, writing a poem about the human experience using animal metaphors, after the aforementioned gushing over his Ticonderoga? :)



Or else he got very stoned in Ticonderoga, NY, (where the graphite for those pencils came from when I was a kid on the east coast) and wrote a song... as with Detroit and all over California many many times.

lately ive been trying to solve the unanswered quesions of evolution and i think ive been breaking a lot of ground

Love that descending chromatic scale on the piano and the repeating guitar in the verses

Favorite song from the album! 😍

Cindy Lombera Sadly, it's underrated

Yeah I did a playlist of best RHCP songs and this ended up at #5

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How is this? So many people going to the concerts but so few views? Great song guys!

William Day it’s because it’s an audio you can already listen to on a Music platform so when the music ( if) comes out it’ll be more viewers

So few views for this song, why?

pringelsthegamefreak a big complaint about this album is that a lot of the tracks are forgetable to a lot of people. I personally have listened to this a lot, along with many big pepper fans. Because of that, songs like Go Robot and Dark Necessities get brought up more often and they get more views since a lot of people like them.

deeplyZinc I think the reason people think that is because some of these songs do sound pretty similar to one another with those similar sounding bridges and key changing parts after the chorus, but I personally do love these songs

deeplyZinc I mean if anyone thinks This Ticonderoga is forgettable they are delusional but ok

pringelsthegamefreak it's auto-generated by YouTube so ppl didn't get a notification

This album is 10/10, and this song too.

That’s redundant

Underrated The Getaway song. This is really good

Fun fact: You won`t find any album or song from RHCP on Youtube that isn`t beeing described as "underrated" in the comments.

@KatarnCrusader Californication is such an underrated RHCP song

Eryck Santos but it’s there best selling song ever

@mrlevinielsen That's the joke, my friend.

I love this song

Ticonderoga is a pencil company

Just shows how creative you can be looking at a pencil and about writing on paper

Ticonderoga is a word that originated in the Iriquois dialect and means "at the junction of two waterways" which doesn't have anything to do with the song, just throwing it out there.

It's also a filthy synth hideout in Fallout 4.

He telling about God but yall religion head cant think THERE God +you = son +sprit = in you. This is not the first time i heard this in so many songs. All he really saying is we believe in God but not religion. Jesus Christ is in us.

@Annie Carter i don't think he is talking about christianity specifically, but yeah.