Tell Me Baby

Album: Stadium Arcadium (2006)
Charted: 16 50
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  • They come from every state to find
    Some dreams were meant to be declined
    Tell the man what did you have in mind
    What have you come to do?

    No turning water into wine
    No learning while you're in the line
    I'll take you to the broken sign
    You see these lights are blue

    Come and get it
    Lost it at the city limit
    Say goodbye
    'Cause they will find a way to trim it
    Everybody
    Lookin' for a silly gimmick
    Gotta get away
    Can't take it for another minute

    This town is made of many things
    Just look at what the current brings
    So high, it's only promising
    This place was made on you

    Tell me, baby, what's your story
    Where you come from
    And where you wanna go this time?
    Tell me, lover, are you lonely?
    The thing we need is
    Never all that hard to find
    Tell me, baby, what's your story
    Where do you come from
    And where you wanna go this time?
    You're so lovely, are you lonely?
    Giving up on the innocence you left behind

    Some claim to have the fortitude
    Too shrewd to blow the interlude
    Sustaining pain to set a mood
    Step out to be renewed

    I'll move you like a baritone
    Jungle brothers on the microphone
    Getting over with an undertone
    It's time to turn to stone

    Chitty chitty, baby
    When your nose is in the nitty gritty
    Life could be a little sweet
    But life could be a little shitty
    What a pity
    Boston and a Kansas city
    Looking for a hundred
    But you only ever found a fitty

    Three fingers in the honeycomb
    You ring just like a xylophone
    Devoted to the chromosome
    The day that you left home

    Tell me, baby, what's your story
    Where you come from
    And where you wanna go this time?
    Tell me, lover, are you lonely?
    The thing we need is
    Never all that hard to find
    Tell me, baby, what's your story
    Where you come from
    And where you wanna go this time?
    You're so lovely, are you lonely?
    Giving up on the innocence you left behind

    Tell me, baby, what's your story
    Where you come from
    And where you wanna go this time?
    Tell me, lover, are you lonely?
    The thing we need is
    Never all that hard to find
    Tell me, baby, what's your story
    Where you come from
    And where you wanna go this time?
    You're so lovely, are you lonely?
    Giving up on the innocence you left behind Writer/s: Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith, John Anthony Frusciante, Michael Balzary
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • Shawn Scott from Brick NjWe are in process of adopting a little girl and she has taken this song on as her Mantra. She lights up every time we play it which is like 8 times a day. She has been many places in 4 years, she's been lonely and has no idea where she's come from and we are trying to give her back her innocence.
  • Bay from Arcata, CaEventhough it's a kinda sad song it's very catchy
    I spent about 2 weeks, after the first time I heard it ,singing it out loud.
  • Landon from Winchester, OhTheir best song, I think. Extremely catchy.
  • Luke from Manchester, EnglandHippy Hippy Shake wasn't recorded by the Beatles, it was written and recorded by Chan Romero in 1959.

    The Beatles covered it in July 1963 then The Swinging Blue Jeans covered it in December 1963...



    Onto this video: There were two auditions or this video, one audition for people who wanted to be famous (line a) and one audition for people who genuinely loved music and wanted to audition (line b)... Line A's videos wern't used and line B's people wern't told the Chili's would be in the audition with them until they came into the room.
  • Tomislav from Zagreb, CroatiaBeautiful beggining.
  • Anonymous from Virginia Beach, VaI love this song, and up top, it sums it up simply, tons of people want to become famous, and a fraction of a percent make it.
    "They come from every state to find/somed dreams were meant to be declined/tell the man what did you have in mind./what have you come to do?/No turning water into wine/"
    I'm thinking that that is kinda stating what i said above. Everyone would love to be famous, but sometimes, it will never happen, and how producers want you to get to the point, and they dont need all this flashy stuff, sure you need the image, but you need talent more.

    I love this song, and reccommend it to anyone
  • Mike from Edmonds, WaI understand that the inspiration for this song came from The Beatles' "Hippy Hippy Shake."
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