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
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