By the Way
By the Way is the eighth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was released on July 9, 2002 on Warner Bros. Records. It sold over 286,000 copies in the first week, and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. (Their next album would peak at number one) The singles from the album included "By the Way", "The Zephyr Song", "Can't Stop", "Dosed" and "Universally Speaking". The lyrical subject matter vocalist Anthony Kiedis addresses in By the Way is a divergence from previous Chili Peppers albums, with Kiedis taking a more candid and reflective approach to his lyrics.
By the Way was applauded by critics as a departure from the band's previous styles, and is recognized for the melodic and subdued emotions given by the Chili Peppers. Guitarist John Frusciante is credited with writing most of the album's melodies, bass lines, and guitar progressions, therefore changing the direction of the recording dramatically: "his warm, understated guitar work and his doo-wop style vocal harmonies are king this time around."By the Way contained very little of the signature punk-funk fusion the band had become known for playing. Frusciante has stated that writing "By the Way [was] one of the happiest times in my life." The album went on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.
By the Way (Red Hot Chili Peppers song)
"By the Way" is a song by American funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is the title track and the first single released from the band's eighth studio album of the same name. The song was the band's sixth #1 hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, staying at the summit for 14 weeks, tying it with "Dani California" as the band's second longest stay at the top, behind only "Scar Tissue", which was at the top for 16 weeks. It also spent 7 weeks at #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, their fourth song to top this chart.
Regarding its release, guitarist John Frusciante noted: "It wasn't really our decision to put that song out first, but our managers thought it was an exciting song and their enthusiasm convinced us. I guess they thought that it combined the wild part of our sound with the melodic part of our sound." Vocalist Anthony Kiedis elaborated: "I thought that single was an über-bombastic assault of non-commercialism. For it to be so well received [in the United Kingdom] was shocking to me, but thrilling at the same time."
By the Way (Theory of a Deadman song)
"By the Way" is the sixth single from Theory of a Deadman's album Scars & Souvenirs, released on May 18, 2009. The song features Chris Daughtry and Robin Diaz on back-up vocals. It about a girl leaving her boyfriend without saying anything to him and he now thinks about her all the time and wishes she'd come back. The Scars & Souvenirs album title comes from a line in this song: "Piled up from the years, all those scars and souvenirs".
Music video
The music video came out in the second week of August 2009. It shows Tyler Connolly walking around an abandoned house with his "former wife" as a ghost lurking around him. He picks up emotional objects such as his wedding picture. Near the end of the video, he turns into the ghost and the wife is actually real. She leaves the house with her friends, like he exclaims in the lyrics of the song. Neither Chris Daughtry nor Robin Diaz, who sing backing vocals on the song, are featured in the music video.
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The Apex
by: Forgive DurdenPallis (Played by Brendon Urie):
I've been tracing your steps,
Along with your dainty, exquisite guest
Across mountain land and serpentine seas
These two have been on quite an odyssey.
You're a fool to think this princess,
Could ever really love a couple of poor boys like us.
She requires riches, recherche
riding with rodomontading roues.
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
Casanovas have charmed with chiffons, so chichi
Chased her with their conceited coteries.
Princess Anhura (Played by Greta Salpeter):
Maharajas have maliloquently mouthed,
Their love for me through their menagerie
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
She's been propositioned, propounded by every pompous prince
Given panniers of peerless pears and plums, polished
Princess Anhura (Played by Greta Salpeter):
I've been seduced with shimmering, sparkling stones
Squired by suitors to sizable chateaus
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
And I'm the one she chose!
Pallis (Played by Brendon Urie):
I understand how you can love a man of truth.
So why don't you just ask him where he spent his youth?
Oh, look at her face!
She really doesn't see that you are from the dark
And you've been lying through your teeth.
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
Anhura, please listen,
I really can explain.
I meant to tell you sooner, it's been gnawing at my brain.
Now you know the truth, but that knowledge shouldn't change
The nature of our love; We've broken through the chains.
Pallis (Played by Brendon Urie):
I'm sure that she would care to hear your acumen
As to how your presence is the reason she is sick.
But I suppose it's in vain, since her life is ending
When I thrust this blade in,
To her heart a-thumpin'!
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
Brother, No!
Pallis (Played by Brendon Urie):
Brother, what have I done?
My blade has pierced your side;
This was never my intent
O God, please stay alive!
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
Dear Pallis, you're my brother, you've tried to protect me.
But your dagger's edge found in my
flesh, it truly was my destiny.
Pallis (Played by Brendon Urie):
Brother I was shortsighted,
I ignored your cries.
You really are the chosen one,
The calculated sacrifice.
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
Please listen to my last words,
Before I fade away.
This is my gift to you:
Live for your love every day.
Pallis (Played by Brendon Urie):
Please don't let your tired heart stop beating.
You're bleeding.
Just keep breathing.
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
You will take care of this spinning sphere
I'll disappear and see you in the mirror.
Adakias, Pallis, and Princess Anhura:
Place your hand on mine, one last time, and kiss me goodbye.
Take the love inside my mind, before I die.
Place your hand on mine, one last time, and kiss me goodbye.
Take the love inside my mind.
Adakias (Played by Thomas Dutton):
Before I die.
Please don't cry.
The Narrator (played by Aaron Weiss)
The mountains seceded. The light and dark depleted.
We lost Adakias, but regained our science.
Our world was finally reunited.
So this is my cue of where to leave you.
Now it's your story to retell and pass on.
Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon.
So remember, never surrender.
'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope