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Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
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The Great Apes
Read The Great Apes lyrics by Red Hot Chili Peppers on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Great Apes
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She's a box car
Rolling by
Like a black star
In the sky
She's a failure
Once or twice
Like a trailer
Spinning out upon dizzy ice
Flowers fly
When we grow old
Snakes get high
Or so I'm told
She's an eagle
Out on the road
Like my favorite
Beatle everyone
Bought and sold
All my love and half my kisses
Superstar don't do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free
Come on now you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free
She's a rain bird
On the prowl
Like an urge to be yourself
That you won't allow
She's a forest
That we burned
Just a blueprint for a life
That we never learned
Flowers fly
When we grow old
Snakes get high
Or so I'm told
She's a lynch mob
On the street
Take another step
And I will kill the beat
All my love and half my kisses
Superstar go do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free
Come on now you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails, but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free
She's a bus stop
Glockenspiel
She's a simulation life
That you thought was real
She's an image
That we blurred
It's a pixelated panther
Now let it purr
All my love and half my kisses
Superstar go do the dishes
I just want the great apes to be free
Come on now you lazy cowboy
Heads or tails but not right now, boy
I just want the great apes to be free
I just want the great apes to be free
I just want the great apes to be free
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