Black Summer

Album: Unlimited Love (2022)
Charted: 43 78
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  • A lazy rain am I
    The skies refuse to cry
    Cremation takes its piece of your supply
    The night is dressed like noon
    A sailor spoke too soon
    And China's on the dark side of the moon

    (Hit me now)

    Platypus are a few
    The secret life of roo
    A personality I never knew (get it on)
    My Greta weighs a ton
    The archers on the run
    And no one stands alone behind the sun

    It's been a long time since I made a new friend
    Waitin' on another black summer to end
    It's been a long time and you never know when
    Waitin' on another black summer to end

    Crack the flaming whip
    A-sailing on a censorship
    Riding on a headless horse to make the trip

    Been a long time since I made a new friend
    Waitin' on another black summer to end
    It's been a long time and you never know when
    Waitin' on another black summer to end

    I been waitin'
    I been waitin'
    Waitin' on another black summer to end
    I been waitin'
    I been waitin'
    Waitin' on another black summer to end
    I been waitin'
    I been waitin'
    Waitin' on another black summer to end Writer/s: Anthony Kiedis, Chad Gaylord Smith, John Anthony Frusciante, Michael Peter Balzary
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

  • Darren Linnell from CanadaJarrett Jace , I think you’re bang on! There’s other references in the song that allude to that: “China’s on the dark side of the moon” whether the origin of the virus came from China or not, it’s an interesting lyric. And we all probably haven’t made any meaningful connections with one another because we’re divided. “ I’ve been waiting...waiting” perhaps for a summer where we aren’t prisoners to mandates?
  • Jarrett Jace from Longview TxPersonally, i dont think "black summer" is about climate change at all. In fact, hearing a 2019 interview on "as it lays", anthony talks about how he "hasnt made any new friends in a while", but how he watches his son make friends like its nothing, because he has the mind of a child and doesnt worry about what the other kids want from him or any of the reasons we as adults choose to think about when were meeting someone. I think this song is about how he hasnt had a genuine interaction with anyone since the entire world decided to sell their soul to the social media industry just so we could get more and more immediate attention for things that dont matter at all anyway. Its been a long time since we as human beings have had any meaningful interaction with each other because we live our entire lives digitally.
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