Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)

This song is about cocaine and China White heroin, two of lead singer Anthony Kiedis' drugs of choice. Both are a white powdery substance, which looks like snow. The lyrics, "So white as snow... Privately divided by a world so undecided," refer to dividing the coke/heroin into lines, so as to deal them or snort them. The line, "The more I see, the less I know, the more I'd like to let it go," means the deeper Kiedis was immersed in these drugs, the less he knew what was going on, and the more he wanted to kick the habit.

Anthony Kiedis explained:

"It's about the repeated failure to start your life anew and how difficult it can be to get rid of old ways of thinking, and destructive ideas we become so attached to."

Lyrics

Come to decide that the things that I tried

Were in my life just to get high on

When I sit alone, come get a little known

But I need more than myself this time

Step from the road to the sea to the sky

And I do believe that we rely on

When I lay it on, come get to play it on

All my life to sacrifice

Hey, oh

Listen what I say, oh

I got your hey, oh

Now listen what I say, oh

(Oh)

When will I know that I really can't go

To the well once more time to decide on

When it's killing me, when will I really see

All that I need to look inside?

Come to believe that I better not leave

Before I get my chance to ride

When it's killing me, what do I really need

All that I need to look inside?

Hey, oh

Listen what I say, oh

Come back and hey, oh

Look at what I say, oh

(Oh)

The more I see, the less I know

The more I like to let it go

Hey oh, whoa-whoa

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder

Where it's so white as snow

Privately divided by a world so undecided

And there's nowhere to go

In between the cover of another perfect wonder

And it's so white as snow

Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed

And there's nowhere to go

Ho!

When to descend to amend for a friend

All the channels that have broken down

Now you bring it up, I'm gonna ring it up

Just to hear you sing it out

Step from the road to the sea to the sky

And I do believe what we rely on

When I lay it on, come get to play it on

All my life to sacrifice

Hey, oh

Listen what I say, oh

I got your hey, oh

Listen what I say, oh

The more I see, the less I know

The more I like to let it go

Hey oh, whoa-whoa

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder

Where it's so white as snow

Privately divided by a world so undecided

And there's nowhere to go

In between the cover of another perfect wonder

Where it's so white as snow

Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed

And there's nowhere to go

I said hey, hey yeah (Ooh)

Oh yeah, tell my love now (Ooh)

Hey, hey yeah (Ooh-ooh-ooh)

Oh yeah, tell my love now

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder

Where it's so white as snow

Privately divided by a world so undecided

And there's nowhere to go

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder

Where it's so white as snow

Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed

And there's nowhere to go

I said hey, oh yeah (Ooh)

Oh yeah, tell my love now (Ooh)

Hey, hey yeah, oh yeah (Ooh-ooh-ooh)

Ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh