Red Hot Chili Peppers - Not The One Lyrics

Red Hot Chili Peppers Lyrics

"Not The One"

I'm not the person that you thought I was
I'm not the one you thought you knew
I'd do most anything to make you think that I'm the one
I'd do it all to get to you

You see me as the perfect compliment
You think that I'm someone to choose
You see me in a way that makes me want to reinvent
A person I could turn into

Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna come
Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna run
Blue strides are calling and I can't stop falling
Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna run

I don't look like myself in photographs
Long days of time have been unkind
I miss the you, the one
That makes me want to redefine
I'm not the one you fell into
I'm not the one, the one for you

Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna come
Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna run
Blue strides are calling and I can't stop falling
Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna run

Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna come
Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna run
Blue strides are calling and I can't stop falling
Give me the love and I'll tell you when I wanna run

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Writer(s): David Michael Navarro, Anthony Kiedis, Michael Peter Balzary, Chad Gaylord Smith

"Not The One" is the third track revealed from Red Hot Chili Peppers' 2022 album, "Unlimited Love". The band posted a snippet of it on Twitter on the 23rd of March, 2022, and published the single on the next day.

This song features bass and piano played by bass guitarist Flea who's got the idea for "Not The One". Anthony Kiedis explained Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, "[He] had put together a drum machine and bass song in his cobweb-covered garage. It was not what you hear today for 'Not the One' because the bridge was the verse and the chorus was the bridge, and it was completely inverted. Every day after band practice, I ride home and I listen to what we've done that day over and over and over and over hoping that it sparks something or that I hear the right melody or something, anything. In that case, I started hearing that entire song on the way home but completely inverted from the way he had arranged it."

album: "Unlimited Love" (2022)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love album cover

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