Scare Tissue- The Red Hot Chili Peppers

The band Red Hot Chili Peppers has played an important role in my life and others lives as well. They are probably my top favorite rock band of all time. They have really good lyrics to their songs and they have really good meaning. Another reason is that they are also considered to be an Alternative Rock band because some of their songs have a  more alternative music sound to them. And as many of you readers know, I am absolutely in love with alternative music and rock music. So you can probably see why I love this band so much.

Another reason the Red Hot Chili Peppers have had such an impact on my life and I've had a strong connection with them, is because when I was younger on the nights I would be with my dad, we would sometimes take drives around town just cruising and listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was his and my favorite band back then and I didn't really have many other fond memories with him other than that. So that's why I have such a strong connection with this band.

One of the songs that really sticks in my head and I listen to a lot still these days is "Scare Tissue". It was the Red Hot Chili Pepper's first single from their seventh studio album "Californication". And it's also one of their most successful songs. It was written by Anthony Kiedis right around the time of the return of their guitar player John Frusciante.

"Scare Tissue" is considered to show the new melodic rock sound that the Red Hot Chili Peppers experimented with on the "Californication" album. It's about the Pepper's singer Anthony Kiedis and his constant battle he had with drugs. Also the quarrels he had with friends and bandmates because of his bad drug addictions. Although the line in the song "sarcastic mister know it all" was actually written by the band's former guitarist Dave Navarro because Anthony thought he was the king of sarcasm.

All in all though, I think the song just uses metaphors to express the pain and suffering people go through in life and the things they try to do to make up for it. They do things to try to get people to notice that they were hurt in some way, like hurt themselves, which often does nothing and nobody notices. This is expressed in the first line of the song, "scar tissue that I wish you saw."
when the people around them don't realize or pay attention to the person's pain, they just kind of wallow in their self-pity, or "share it with the birds".