1988년에 레드 핫 칠리 페퍼스에 합류한 프루시안테는 1989년에 발표한 《Mother's Milk》와 다음 음반 《Blood Sugar Sex Magik》에 참여하였다. 하지만 1992년에 밴드를 탈퇴한 이후, 그는 오랜 기간 동안 헤로인 중독에 빠져 지냈다. 그는 이 기간 동안 첫 솔로 음반 《Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt》를 발표하기도 하였다. 1998년, 약물 중독을 극복해낸 그는 다시 레드 핫 칠리 페퍼스에 합류하여 현재까지 밴드와 솔로 활동을 겸하고 있다. 존 프루시안테는 《롤링 스톤》이 2003년 발표한 "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"에 18위에 올랐다. .... ....
I fail to do what I'm trying I've these walls And everyone who dies hears others times This immediacy is unknown to me And appears to be unreached By everyone I've known Show me unfocused fears in disguise It shows me I must live to die This lake is on fire It's been every dream to me it's been every desire I awaken Filling up the space I back away And it covers me up all cozy These waves are the call of time What's sent ahead is sent behind As in rime
And then the past recedes And I won't be involved The effort to be free Seems pointless from above You're looking down at me I'd rather stay below Than have you staring up at me It's nowhere I want to go
Ay, this business of how long we try to stay alive Why to be here you first got to die So I gave it a try And what do you know Time was so long ago
And things come back you see To where they don't belong And every drop of sea is the hole ocean
I lied to the greatest thieves About anything and everything I'm a figure of forgotten speech I'm out of reach I can't play it safe But I'm might just in case
I'm disguised as a reaching hand I'm a working man I don't understand why clockout Come so slow everytime That's one line I stay right behind That's one line I stay right behind
You're the feeling of hurting More is what I'm asking for Little lies cross overboard Wait for the crying Love to aim at besides Lever pulled Go where you are little pond Never be seen by your saw We'll work it out Now the feelings are right where you saw Forever is right where we were Never be clean Lever pulled Be where you are
Anne you can't hide you know we'll find you It's a matter where pride flies out the window I never got the weight off the ground I just forgot what's up and what's down
How many get the way I feel now There's no regret There's just the sense that Nothing is going my way There's so much that happened today
The gods of the city have called my name It means more to them than it means to me somehow I left my body I left my fate But it is so hard to keep away now
Nothing is final because it seems all the while There wasn't anything for me I always faked my smile
There's so many careless angels responsible for me They give me disease They give me a pain in my neck to feed off me Saying pay us the cost and we'll be gone Now they shut my eyes and i can't see now
These are the times I was scared of These are the fates I pushed out of the way Now they come back here and haunt me It's plain to see who the winner and loser will be
I don't know the real from what I thought I saw I can't remember where I went Where I was I'm gonna move towards a point in time Where where you are is a state of mind And anytime I can read your thoughts Some of them yours and some of them I thought up There's no good reason for a heartbreak Nothing's repeating every Monday It's no good saying you'll always be mine These jokes life's playing they make me so tired, so tired It's already too much to always see you off The sense that hours go back is enough I like to fade when I write this line There's every reason to paint a decline And every mile I walk is five I'll get where I'm going in the next life And all the while there's a false face This every killing is left untraced This kind of falling saved my son This constant longing for what's gone
These don't have a name I've been a fool to let it out that way And it'll keep on coming back A fool gets laughed at and I'll go on and on and on Letting it out when the feeling's strong I wonder who in the single thing Made this night and this ugly dreams These all pass away It is clear that one can see through a day And i may have met my match Completely unattached with no one no one no one on whom to rely Let's sing that song well I didn't read the last page You thought of me at that final stage eenie meenie miny moe It's about time About time to go
It's not the way I go It's not the way I go Noone here hears me I'm sick of people knowing me Life's confusing me There's so much I don't see something's controlling me It's no way to live I haven't got a thing to give And those signs trade off I'm a line from loud to soft For what I have to say I wanted to build a stage I wanted to feel this way All this things are real I don't know my own field You will prove me wrong I don't know one I see now what I've got It reveals just what is is not Someday I'll take it away There's nothing for me anyway Love don't choose me wide don't see a thing What I'm saying is now I don't know what it's about I wander through the dawn so much goes on Who will make me run I admit I might be wrong These letters shelter me now I wonder how
You're warning me to get out of the way Was the safest thing to say This trying to get out of a tight spot Isn't even worth a shot And all of the world calls out at once give us pain It's a friend to us And we don't decide for ourselves very much what we are we owe to the fear of love Don't bring it around I've reached for that I've reached for that Once it is found It turns its back It turns its back What's it called when you're married And you've fallen out of love What's it called when the family who raised you don't know at all Give us a point to miss endings are killing me slow I only ask for this Emptiness replaced my soul Emptiness replaced my soul My soul, replace my soul My soul, replace my soul
I feel the hope running low we never found our way home There is no more world The land is gone water is all that survived that one
There are no escapes,no escapes,no escapes gone are the days of mistakes our mistakes
And did you see the night wore on and became the days that never begun The disappearing day You know where I'm from Is the only place that forever stays young
Lost at sea we're lost at sea I wouldn't know my face if you all were me All we have is all we see There is no more hope There are no dreams
Coming up to the end These feelings weren't always pretend Review your whole life and you don't even have to die Life would never leave me alone A choise which way i wanted to go And everything I've seen is wrong to make me what I'll be All men You don't need anyone Just hold on to the end And you don't even have to look good Woman You do fine on your own You're free to cry and you don't have to wipe your eyes You once saved me And now I'm where you want me to be Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try
For changing lines I've got no time tonight In these times the wind surpasses the tide when the wake ups hard to find dreams make up for your life This crazy shine it never lets you die Growing up We become what we want Again the moon rises up too high And we don't need the sky Wonder what it is that makes the world turn slower wonder what it is that makes me feel so mad everyone that talks to me I so wish wouldn't I wouldn't even care exept I feel so bad I feel so bad why is there noone in my life time there's no time tonight Wide there's no room to see wide Time There's no time tonight There's noone in my life
Hannah go leap your bar This is how right you are I'm in a way it seems people are cold and mean In the valleys noon the things that i can find Nothing simple soon This stitches I can time I was so bad Endless the weeds you blink Nothing's for sure to sink I closed an open door what is the world good for The beloved cars that went to where they went did they actually go or were they really sent Life is so sad Hannah go fill your jar This isn't right you are When does the whole of to become infinity Headed for the moon the mission i can buy Forever in a line The friends who walk right by and never see you I never see you
There's one room There's one light There's one night In the fire In the pain In the wire This from me This one lie That seems right Time can't climb It can't be It can't see I see to be right I fall down tonight I go to hell to be what I sell Falling again is such a welcome end Can the end of today be more than tonight Echoes of these far reaching sights Stuck with the pain of knowing you should have tried Give me your hands And we'll never die This love song It sits wrong It means jack The time's right to be wrong All night long I feel good I feel so far away This is mine It could be anyday I saw what I saw I call up a man Distance is what gets me right in I had a hand in everyone losing their place Never must stop It's stealing my heart A moment to squeeze begging on its knees I know I'll never be right beyond tonight Give me your hands And we'll never die
These are different lives Being lived at the same time Like holding on to a whole The world's edge is closer I'm gonna leap right off her And that will be the end of me Intersecting lines Falling way behind I'm walking on a rope Drifting from her I've never been further All I know is right Dreams drift right past me
Inside a break there's only moments that hide Every mistake is really worth a try I know a way a lie can be refined Hand me your cross and run for your life Any good luck is a falling tree I'm no one and no one is me All day to call some kind of faceless guide Some day you see is just today in a guise Every pace you go would go without you The busiest days there's really nothing to do I go away to turn the dark to light Don't look at me when you're wondering why Hymns sound so good to him Reflections occur within Unwind so called holes Language is false but it speaks to me Places are gone when there's no one to see 'em I got a pain that spans millions of lives Going to where we'll dive into the sky Any old way is a new way to be There's just no cause for beating anybody All of us kids we like to climb and fall Once within there's nothing better at all Than nowhere nowhere
A firm kick in the pants This last chance to get things right This was one time I closed an eye Looked away from you Look out for yourself tonight Sometimes I have to get things right I never meant what I said to you Give up all the things that you love to do I'd never guessed that you'd do me wrong I'll never except that dance and song A little time to adjust Would be just what we need I've meant to tell you what I think that you think When I cross your mind Forgone Stressed at the light What's wrong with being uptight I never say what I intend to But does it mean that much to you I'd a close call with a glitch in time Are you really that happy to be mine No I'm not disguising All that fighting And dreams not coming true I will play some light from the sun The world by my side And I will see dawn as a forlorn maiden in the sky And I will play a song of thunder you may recognize You make a never That's forever Knowing what you deny When I revisit the past it's a blast I've just gotta move on I've just let down someone I relied on And I don't see why How'd we pretty up that speech MC talking through me I've never done what I set out to do Don't come to me 'cuz I'll run from you Left out of life would I really care Not a whole lot There's nothing for me there I'll never forget the limits that we set Back when it was our moon I never made a pretense of living with good sense It's really not my strong suit.
I can't get through Knots in my mind I resent The self I can't find I can't get through I can't get through Oh, a paper and a pencil Are the best friends I've got I went to downtown LA Got picked up by the cops I didn't get what I wanted But I didn't care a lot I saw that life was kidding Look on, look on, look on Look on, look on, look on I'm warning you I skipped a life To be here I've got no right I'm bad luck I'm bad luck Oh, I used to feel a lot Things used to be alright So much was going on I'm empty now inside When I thought life was terrible Things were going fine Vincent called as a set up Look on, look on, look on [x7] It's not right I lost my fame It's a cheap trick I wanna do it again I've got no life I've got no life Oh, I am a separate entity From the guy I was before Here nobody wants me I hoped for something more That I flip through empty pages ai thought I wrote on I can't tell what is dreaming Look on, look on, look on [x4]
And now a minute is trapped It fell into a cracK Eleven tries leading the way And then foresight comes I've lost my sense of it all The feelings I can't resolve Circumstances outside convention And you know I tried To be part of life
I found the rest of me I was beaten on down Emptiness set me free I lived on a cloud The walk through the storm Was like a holiday I happened to have been warned Over and over again
The sense of speaking dissovled Words meanings I couldnt recall And all I'd found did my losing I was tough to find Playing games with my mind Up the drops that I climbed In the abyss I was hurled into By who I brought back into time
I found the rest of me I was beaten down Emptiness set me free I lived on a cloud The walk through the storm Was like a holiday I happened to have been warned Over and over again
You know I'm around you I wouldn't be if I didn't love you I'm going to run through you You know you're quite a character It goes that I haven't got a care When we float down the river I wonder will I lose you When we roam through a blizzard We'll joke and have another cry I hope I'm not the other guy We'll never scale those heights again We've lost our daughter Let's plan to hide from all our friends In silent waters Be careful of what you are What you see is just a small part You must look for yourself in others And all the places that you go You see that they are part of you I want to again be holding hands With you underwater And couldn't we get a second chance To go back and start over I was thinking before That it was all my fault We dropped the baton Sunday waves and makes faces at us all the time And I'm wondering what I call mine Sunday waves and makes faces all the time And I'm wondering what I call mine
Something these days in the air I'm afraid to sing this song ‘Cuz no one answers me Got in the way of this one chance of mine I threw it back It wasn't gonna last I jumped ahead There was a slipstream One good feeling there I got out quick Lower than I go I'm a pinball Sticking through a lot Then down the side wall The drop (x2 in a super intense scream) I must have been alone In the mean time Nothing comes my way I'm proud to say I crossed a line I said goodbye This state to recreate Is the drain of time I lead you on There were no days to wait for No carrying on Life's still a disease Help it along It's a sure thing Everyone I meet is a laughing star Who dropped (x2 intense scream) You all should walk through a poster You should see how things align Change how you see a decline See how high you really climb (x3) The drop (x2)