“Scar Tissue” was another song where you open up the top of your head and it comes dusting down from outer space.
Kiedis discussed this song at length in Scar Tissue, offering some insight into its background and origins by recalling a conversation with producer Rick Rubin, and the very moment when Frusciante landed on the now-famous melody: Hence, he’s healing all alone, and it’s clearly not going well because he’s still up flying high with the birds, looking down at his life and the sorry state that it has reached. In this particular case, Kiedis is referring to his scar tissue as the demons of heroin addiction, hiding it on the outside with a sarcastic attitude so nobody knows. These lyrics introduce the song’s main idea of hidden “Scar Tissue” that people may carry around with them due to hard times in life. With the birds I’ll share this lonely viewin’ First verse and chorus to “Scar Tissue” by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
With the birds I’ll share this lonely viewin’ Opening things up is John Frusciante’s masterful guitar melody, followed by the iconic opening lyrics:Ĭlose your eyes and I’ll kiss you, ’cause “Scar Tissue” was a hit upon release, peaking at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and winning the Grammy for Best Rock Song in 2000, and it has proven itself to be enduring as one of the most well-known rock songs of the early MTV days. The album also spawned hits like title track “Californication” and “Otherside”, and the song’s title was also used by Kiedis for his memoir, which was published in 2004. The track was the lead single from RHCP’s most famous album, 1999’s Californication, which featured the return of guitarist John Frusciante for the first time since 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. This is done over a feel-good guitar melody that serves to mask some of the darker metaphors that RHCP frontman and songwriter Anthony Kiedis uses to describe this experience, which he has gone through himself. “Scar Tissue” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a song that looks at drug addiction and the solitary struggles that many addicts face on their path to sobriety.
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