Lyrics for Death of a Martian as interpreted by CApe151

Death of a Martian Lyrics
Bear paws and rascal power
Watching us in your garage
Big girl you ate the neighbor
The nova is over
Wake up and play
Balleradio
Make room for Clara's bare feet
The love of a Martian

Tick tock and waiting for the meteor
This clock is opening another door

Lots of love just keep it comin'
Making something out of nothin'
These are the best that I
I don't know how to say
Losin' what I love today
These are the best that I
Lots of love just keep it comin'
Making something out of nothin'
These are the best that I
I don't know what to say
Look at what I lost today
These are the things that I

Blood flowers in the kitchen
Signing off and winding down
The Martian ends her mission
The nova is over
She caught the ball
By the mission bell
Chase lizards bark at donkeys
The love of a Martian

Let's bow our heads
And let the trumpets blow
Our girl is gone
God bless her little soul

She's got sword in case tho this is not her lord in case the one who can't afford to face her image is restored to grace. Disappeared. No trace. Musky tears. Suitcase. The down turn brave little burncub bearcareless turnip snare rampages pitch color pages....down and out but not in Vegas. Disembarks and disengages. No loft. Sweet pink canary cages plummet pop dewskin fortitude for the sniffing black noses that snort and allude to dangling trinkets that mimic the dirt cough go drink its. It's for you. Blue battered naval town slip kisses delivered by duck muscles and bottlenosed grifters arrive in time to catch the late show. It's a beehive barrel race. A shehive stare and chase wasted feature who tried and failed to reach her. Embossed beneath a box in the closet that's lost. The kind that you find when you mind your own mysteries. Shiv sister to the quickness before it blisters into the newmorning milk blanket. Your ilk is funny to the turnstyle touch bunny who's bouquet set a course for bloom without decay. Get you broom and sweep the echoes of yesternights fallen freckles....away...

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Avatar-rock
05-10-2006

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great song, it's about Martian, Flea's dog that died
i love the end

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Liamus
05-10-2006

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The ending sounds like a ercital from some sort of uber sacred text! T'is a good way to bring the album to a close methinks

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adam07
05-10-2006

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Anthony's dog, Buster, who helped him get out of his drug addiction, also died while they were working on this song.

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JLynn943
05-11-2006

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it's a very sad song, but it's very good

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Chupacabra86
05-11-2006

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Yup its about his dog, funny Flea's daughters name is Clara, very literal song compared to their others...

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FleaFlyFlo
05-11-2006

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yeah its about when fleas dog died and anthony wanted to write a song bout it cause ants dog had just died too and knew what he was feeling

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papiLPS
05-11-2006

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its horrible to lose your pet. it cant be compared to losing a person but its a sad situation, too. i love the ending of this song. Get your broom!!!

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dan5423
05-12-2006

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Nova is also a Native American name for Butterfly Chaser.. maybe that has something to with it..all in all this is an awesome song

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dan5423
05-12-2006

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Nova is also a Native American name for Butterfly Chaser.. maybe that has something to with it..all in all this is an awesome song

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jware39
05-12-2006

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Well, I'm not going to lie, I absolutely love the outro, but am slightly confused by it. At times it appears to almost completely incoherent. It reminds me of something I tried once. I took a book in the library and would simply flip through to random pages and make sentences and rhymes and stuff from the different phrases and sentence parts on the different pages and sort of tell a vague story. I doubt that's what Anthony did here, but it reminds me of that. Any thoughts on the specifics of the outro?
[Jware.]

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torrance21
05-16-2006

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I read an interview in which John was describing that it was about Flea's dog who sadly died, but when John was recording his backing vocals for it, Anthony handed him a note to tell him that Buster had died as well. It's really sad. So I think the song is solely about Flea's dog, but the emotion behind the recording is about Buster as well.

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lavkian
05-18-2006

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this song has one of the most powerful choruses i've ever heard. i'm totally addicted to it.

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Elithrar
05-19-2006

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The 'outro' is insanely incoherent, but I think it somehow relates to the incoherency-of-thought you sometimes go through when someone or something (in this case, Flea's dog, Martian) passes. Everything becomes jumbled up and muddled.

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lookin_for_answers
05-22-2006

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ok i desided i wanted this played at my funeral 1st time i heard it,now im not so sure!

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Frankay615
05-26-2006

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Haha, guys, I don't know if you read Scar Tissue or not, but Anthony says in there that sometimes he puts words into songs just to rhyme them. Not saying that's what he did here, but it definitely looks like it, haha.

Okay, so there are no more "Yup, you're right, it's about his dog"'s...

Bottom Line - Flea and Anthony co-wrote this song, originally for Flea's dog, Martian. During the recording, apparently, Anthony's dog, Buster, had dies as well. :( Hope this doesn't make him go back to drugs, if you read his book, you know that Buster was his biggesdt influence in getting (and staying) clean.

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sandwich
05-29-2006

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What a beautiful ode to a loyal girl.
Some lines really get my dog-owning heart:
"The nova is over
She caught the ball
By the mission bell
Chase lizards bark at donkeys"

As well as the entire sermon at the end, which I'm sure is accounting their personal experiences together.

"bottlenosed grifters"
lol
That's poetry, folks!

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zephead76
06-08-2006

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The outtro is a peom that keidis read...I can't remember exactly right now, but he talkes about it on the Special edition DVD...check it out

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Zeppeliner
06-09-2006

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I think I't quite scary...;) but I locve the line "lots of love just keep it comming, make something out of nothing"

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ATMTNguitarist
06-15-2006

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i love this song and think its one of the best on stadium arcadium... but to have it bout a death of a dog... like its kinda dumb... anyone else agree?

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Kevbo
06-21-2006

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If you think that then you're an idiot.

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Chris_Frusciante
07-02-2006

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I simply love this song.....
Have no words to describe it...
Thank you Chili Peppers...

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mhanna66
07-08-2006

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Listen people... it does Not matter what You think of this song.... It matters what We think of this song, colletively. In my opinion, that is where meaning of a work of ANY art originates. This song speaks, to me, about the death of a close one: Be that close one a dog, a significant other or someone meaningless... death affects us all. it reminds us of our mortality.

Anthony Keidis For Governor of Cali

Mhanna66@hotmail.com

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rhcpzephyr910
07-08-2006

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i really love this song.. it definetly stands out the most to me in Stadium Arcadium.. it's so beautiful and full of depth, it really shows not only the love they had for Flea's dog but what she really meant to them as a friend and companion.. and really, whoever thought it was 'dumb' to have the song about the death of a dog has to be a pretty tight ass close minded person

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Melatinini
07-16-2006

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Before I read the other comments, I thought that it was really about the death of an alien. I thought the first few verses were about the humans and their killing of the Martian:
"Bear paws and rascal power
Watching us in your garage
Big girl you ate the neighbor
The nova is over."

...and the second half was from the point of view of the aliens, who lost a loved one:
"The Martian ends her mission...

Let's bow our heads
And let the trumpets blow
Our girl is gone
God bless her little soul."

But yeah. The real way is even cooler. xD

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InCaseOfEvidence
07-17-2006

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Does anyone see a similarity to Cedric Bixler's (Of The Mars Volta) lyrical stylings in the outro? John became good friends with Omar around '01.... And De Facto (Omar, Cedric, Ikey, and the Late Jeremy Ward's dub band) opened for Frusciante's solo shows. RHCP quickly befriended Volta... Frusciante plays a solo on Cicatriz, and Flea plays bass for the album, and trumpet for their second album. Anyway, RHCP and MV have toured twice together, and I can see a giant influence by MV on that outro. And that's not a band thing. It's good to see such things in my view. Like bees pollenating different flowers, this is a beautiful example of how influence inspires the music world. Excellent song.

R.I.P. Martian.

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