I Could Die For You

Album: By The Way (2002)
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  • Something inside the cards I know is right
    Don't want to live somebody else's life
    This is what I want to be and this is what I give to you
    Because I get it free
    She smiles while I do my time

    I could die for you
    Oh, this life I choose

    I'm here to be your only go-between
    To tell you of the sights these eyes have seen
    What I really want to do is turn it into motion
    Beauty that I can't abuse
    You know that I use my senses, too
    You can see that it's only everywhere
    I'd take it all in, then I'd find a way to share

    Come along and go along with me
    Wander with me, yo, it's all for free

    I could die for you, what you wanna do?
    Oh, this life I choose
    I could die for you, what you wanna do?
    Oh, this life I choose

    Come again and tell me where you want to go
    What it means to me to be with you alone
    Close the door and no one has to know
    How we are

    Come along and go along with me
    Wander with me, yo, it's all for free

    I could die for you, what you wanna do?
    Oh, this life I choose
    I could die for you, what you wanna do?
    Oh, this life I choose, make me wanna say
    I could die for you, what you wanna do?
    Oh, this life I choose
    I could die for you, what you wanna do?
    Oh, this life I choose Writer/s: Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith, John Frusciante, Michael Balzary
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Seth from TuscaloosaIf you read Scar Tissue, Anthony truly seemed to love the women that he dated. So, I truly don't think this one is about drugs. He truly seems to be a genuine, loving person.
  • Carson from NyI heard that Kiedis wrote this song about his heroin addiction that he could die of.
  • Justin from Boston, Maso, i can relate to this seeing as how i feel this way about someone
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