Halftime Show - FIRST!!
How’d you like that?
- hand of god in the pepsi commerical raches down and rearranges things around the city
- the word prepare glowing red
- open with “locked out of heaven”
- then the chili peppers and Give it away now ~Meaning of that song?
The lyrical meaning behind “Give It Away” is centered around the philosophy of selflessness and altruistic behavior. – selflessness was due to an attempt to constantly make her life more enjoyable, and explained to Kiedis that “if you have a closet full of clothes and you try to keep them all, your life will get very small. But if you have a full closet and someone sees something they like, if you give it to them, the world is a better place.” The act was something that affected Kiedis significantly because he had never before experienced such an enlightening ideology on life. Growing up in Los Angeles he had always thought differently than Hagen; instead of giving material possessions away and being free thinking the vocalist believed one must take what they want as no one will provide for you. Instead, he now adopted Hagen’s philosophy: “It was such an epiphany that someone would want to give me her favorite thing. That stuck with me forever. Every time I’d be thinking ‘I have to keep,’ I’d remember ‘No, you gotta give away instead.’ When I started going regularly to [drug and alcohol] meetings, one of the principles I had learned was that the way to maintain your own sobriety is to give it to another suffering alcoholic. Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
