Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fight Like A Brave [Official Music Video] video free download

DIRECTED BY: DICK RUDE 1987

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"Fight Like a Brave" is the first track from American funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' album The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. It was released as the lead single for the album. Despite being a single, the song has not been performed live since 1989 though according to a magazine it was played once in 1991 though the setlist info remains missing and unconfirmed. The single also included a cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic, "Fire" as a b-side. It would later appear on The Abbey Road E.P. and Mother's Milk as a tribute to guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died in 1988.

Composition

Most of the song's lyrics revolve around Anthony Kiedis' addiction to heroin. At the lowest point in Kiedis' addiction, Flea had kicked him out of the Chili Peppers with no intention of letting him back in unless he was proven sober. After getting clean through various rehab programs, he called Flea to tell him of his success, and was accepted back in the band. On the plane ride home, Kiedis wrote this song about his struggles with drugs and his overcoming them.

The song is mostly an attempt to inspire other people like the rehab sessions were motivational for Kiedis to abandon the drugs. Kiedis described "Fight Like a Brave" as "a metaphor for trying to encourage someone who feels as though they don't have a chance [as though] they're grovelling in the gutter of life." He also said the song expressed the band's discontentment with EMI, their label at the time.

"Fight Like a Brave" is featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.

"Fight Like a Brave" is featured in the 1986 movie Tough Guys.

A portion of the song's lyrics, "No one can tell you you've got to be afraid" was also used by Bradley Nowell in the Sublime song "All You Need".

Lyrics

All you slingers and fiends

hide behind your rocks

put down your guard

I'm not here to box

this is no showdown

so throw down your guns

you see it doesn't matter

where you come from

you could be from park ave

or from a park bench

you could be a politican

or a bitchy princess

but if you're lookin' for a fist

and you're lookin' to unite

put your knuckleheads together

make a fist and fight

not to your death

and not to your grave

I'm talking about that freedom

fight like a brave

fight like a brave

don't be a slave

no one can tell you

you've got to be afraid

If you're sick-a-sick'n'tired

of being sick and tired

if you're sick of all the bullshit

and you're sick of all the lies

it's better late than never

to set-a-set it straight

you know the lie is dead

so give your self a break

get it through your head

get if off your chest

get it out your arm

because it's time to start fresh

you want to stop dying

the life you could be livin'

I'm here to tell a story

but I'm also here to listen

no I'm not your preacher

and I'm not your physician

I'm just trying to reach you

I'm a rebel with a mission

fight like a brave

don't be a slave

no one can tell you

you've got to be afraid

fight like a brave

don't be a slave

no one can tell you

you've got to be afraid

I'm here today to pump up the uplift mofo party plan

a plan based on a band, a band based on a plan

there should be no slaves in the land of lands

it's a hollywood jam

You say you're running and you're running

and you're running afraid

you say you ran across the planet

but you couldn't get away

the fire in your brain

was driving you insane

you were looking for a day

in a life that never came

so don't tell me that

I've got to take a number

cause I've been to that doctor

and believe me that's a bummer

here's a one of a kind

convention of the mind

and don't forget to mention

that it doesn't cost a dime

come as you like

and leave any time

and one more thing

you know it doesn't have to rhyme

fight like a brave

don't be a slave

no one can tell you

you've got to be afraid...