Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can’t Stop (Album: By the Way (2002))

Em, D, Bm, C

Can’t stop addicted to the shin dig

Cop top he says I’m gonna win big

Choose not a life of imitation

Distant cousin to the reservation

Defunkt the pistol that you pay for

This punk the feeling that you stay for

In time I want to be your best friend

Eastside love is living on the westend

Knock out but boy you better come to

Don’t die you know the truth is some do

Go write your message on the pavement

Burnin’ so bright I wonder what the wave meant

White heat is screaming in the jungle

Complete the motion if you stumble

Go ask the dust for any answers

Come back strong with 50 belly dancers

C:   [G,  D,  Bm,  C]

The world I love, The tears I drop

To be part of, The wave can’t stop

Ever wonder if it’s all for you

The world I love, The trains I hop

To be part of, The wave can’t stop

Come and tell me when it’s time to

Sweetheart is bleeding in the snowcone

So smart she’s leading me to ozone

Music the great communicator

Use two sticks to make it in the nature

I’ll get you into penetration

The gender of a generation

The birth of every other nation

Worth your weight the gold of meditation

This chapter’s going to be a close one

Smoke rings I know your going to blow one

All on a spaceship persevering

Use my hands for everything but steering

Can’t stop the spirits when they need you

Mop tops are happy when they feed you

J. Butterfly is in the treetop

Birds that blow the meaning into bebop

[Chorus]

Wait a minute I’m passing out

Win or lose, just like you

Far more shocking than anything

I ever knew,  How about you

10 more reasons why I need

Somebody new, just like you

Far more shocking than anything

I ever knew,  Right on cue

[first 3 verses]

Kick start the golden generator

Sweet talk but don’t intimidate her

Can’t stop the gods from engineering

Feel no need for any interfering

Your image in the dictionary

This life is more than ordinary

Can I get 2 maybe even 3 of these

Come from space

To teach you of the pliedes

Can’t stop the spirits when they need you

This life is more than just a read thru

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Tablature:  [Intro]

[Verses]
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A|-7-7--------7-7-7--------7-7-7-------------------------------|
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[Chorus]
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