Red Hot Chili Peppers – Police Station

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  General Comment:I wish u guys would stop always just saying all RHCP songs are about drugs and addiction and tying AK to it due to his past.
  
  I think JohnWVU has it right. its a love interest with a gal that has an addition and is a prostitute. god thats a first. no I think John has it right. it is a song about being in love with a prostitute who is well a typical profile of someone of that oldest profession.

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  Song Meaning:After I heard the songs a couple of times I started to really listen to the lyrics and it honestly sounds to me that the friend at the police station is like a prostitute or something.

  Flag muzy21on August 07, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:I think it's about addiction. The girl is a reference to drugs, and addiction. Because of it, going to jail, slumming, chasing after the drugs and addiction, and then finally, about breaking free of the addiction.

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  Lyric Correction:i absolutelyyy LOVE the RHCP, but the chorus is a little off the first chorus goes..
  
  "Tell your country I, rest my face on your bed.
  I've got you ten times over, I'll chase you down 'til you're dead"
  
  and the second and third chorus goes..
  
  "Tell your country I, rest my face on your bed.
  I bet my sovereign country and I, left it all for your head"
  
  :) rhcp<3
  
  

  Flag teenuh1133on September 16, 2011   Link

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    The song is about a troubled lover. Anthony is singing about what he sees in her and remembering all the good times he's had with her, but now she's lost and empty... he cares for her so much, but she's out of control...and he wants to help her and show her the way but HE cant. And then the last verse he sees she did change. not for him, but for someone else... and now he's shocked and bummed.
    
    I'm sure I could clean up the meaning, but Ehh that's what I got

    Flag wreckofyou33on September 29, 2011  

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    Nonono. You're all wrong. The lyrics are correct.

    Flag robomonon April 09, 2012  
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  Song Meaning:This may be a stretch, but I'm thinking that this song is about previous guitarist John Frusciante.
  
  "Dreaming of the golden years, I see you had to change careers"
  Anthony misses the "good old days" with John Frusciante, but realizes that he has to do what he has to do.
  
  "I saw you in the church and there was no time to exchange.
  You were getting married and it felt so very strange.
  I guess I didn't see it coming,
  Now I guess it's me who's bumming.
  Dreaming of the golden years,
  You and I were mixing tears.
  Not today, not for me but someone.
  I never could get used to, so now I will refuse to."
  
  John recently got married and, from what I can imagine, the relationship between the band and John had gotten strained during the recent hiatus.

  Flag rhcpman1993on September 07, 2011   Link

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    Lots of interpretations... I wish I knew the narrators real point of view.

    Flag andarilloon September 09, 2011  

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    This was my first thought on hearing the song too. Partly because I was trying to listen out for the song about him leaving, admittedly, but it all fits too well to not be about him.

    Flag Avatar-rockon October 11, 2011  

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    And what about the line that says "You can't hide from me girl, so never mind what I do"?
    Doubt this is about John.

    Flag Martian3on October 15, 2011  

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    Yes, that is definitely a stretch. It is definitely NOT about John :)
    
    I am sure it is about a former girlfriend/lover of his. Or, perhaps, it is not about an actual girl he knows but a typical scenario in Hollywood; someone who used to be a model or such ("smiling was your money-maker"), and has fallen so far she is now a prostitute ("the driftwood in your eyes said nothing short of love for pay").

    Flag macaulfion October 26, 2011  
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  General Comment:I see that the Chili Peppers and Keidis has his own meaning but the beautiful thing about music is that songs can have their own meaning to listeners. To me this is what Police Station is about:
  
  Its told from the first person view of noticing a former lover and girlfriend at various locations over his life. In this relationship, the narrator is madly in love with a woman who has a troubled past and involved with drugs and promiscuity over her lifetime, which has landed her at the police station and on the corner. Although these factors ruined the relationship, the narrator still has love and a longing to fix these aspects in her life. Hes had her but wants her again and this time, in the ways that he has tried to fix with her. After many years and when she finally does fix these crutches in her life, he sees her getting married in a church yard and its too late to be with her. Yet, he still loves and wants to be with her but there is comfort in knowing that she has improved her life

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  Lyric Correction:The correct chorus is :
  
  Down home country
  I rest my face on your bed
  I've got you 10 times over
  I'll chase you down
  Till you're dead

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  My Interpretation:Now what I understood from the lyrics:
  
  
  VERSE 1: the guy who loves her spots her at the police station and is touched by what has become of the girl he loves and how she(looking for fame/golden years) has gotten used to this 'garbage life'
  
  VERSE 2: Again he spots her on the newspaper and notices how she's changed from the who she used to be, a person with confidence (convictions). and remembers how they were together back then and decides to go after her to save her.
  
  Chorus: He's where she (or they) used to sleep reminiscing and decided to go after her (to save her)
  
  VERSE 3: He sees her on the TV and again touched by how the lovely girl is dusting and decaying (lidsay lohan hahaha) and is going after her to save her
  
  VERSE 4: He's leaving off to her and will do anything to save her
  
  CHORUS: Same as previous chorus only this time he adds in that she's his soulmate and left everything behind to go after this girl.
  
  Verse 5: He finds the girl in the churchyard but can't talk to her as married with someone else to his surprise. Heartbroken as he never imagined this and now he feels like like he is where she was/is (decay/needs to be saved). and he refuses to give up.
  
  Did he write this to lidsay lohan? haha
  anyway it's a great song and would make a great book or movie.

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  General Comment:I thought it was kinda very straightforward. I imagined it was about someone loving someone who was lost and over the years seeing her get caught up in trouble over and over again. But then the protagonist kinda saves her and shows her what real love is but they drift apart. And finally one day she is getting married and she has her life cleaned up but the protagonist always felt that when she did find her way back it would lead her to him not to some other guy. The end is just kind of his vow that he will never let her go. Its a really amazing song.

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    i completely agree with you!. and yes this is really such an amazing song :)

    Flag teenuh1133on September 21, 2011  
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  Lyric Correction:Corrections from the lyric booklet:
  
  "I saw you on the back page
  Of some free press yesterday
  The driftwood in your eyes
  Said nothing short of love for pay"
  
  "Down home country
  I rest my face on your bed"
  
  "I met my soul mate country
  And I left it all for your head"
  
  
  

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