Wet Sand / Wildcard

My favorite band of all time, hands down, has to be the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
They are an extremely well known band, and I've listened to all of their albums more times over than I can count.
Even though Californication, By The Way and Blood Sugar Sex Magik are all exceptionally amazing albums, Stadium Arcadium, their most recent album blew them all away.
The mature tastes of John Frusciante's guitar-work, Anthony Keidis' drawling vocals, Flea's haunting bass and Chad's sick beats come together to create more than an album, but a musical experience.
The album contains two CD's, Jupiter and Mars. In my opinion both are equally amazing, but Jupiter takes the cake.

I digress. Onto lyrical and musical connections.

Jupiter begins with Dani California a song that revolves around a girl named Dani (who was mentioned in the album By The Way) who lives the wild life with Anthony:


The songs continue on with Snow, Hey Oh:



and Stadium Arcadium, both of which harbor melancholic tones, yet the themes jump up and down between songs after that, with songs named Strip My Mind, She's Only 18 and Torture Me, all revolving around someone pushing Anthony to do that which he does not.

The big part revolves around the end. The last three songs, Cmon Girl, Wet Sand and Hey are
all interconnected strongly, sharing melodic, harmonic and lyrical resonance. Wet Sand, however, is the most poignant:



The lyrics are a strong argument within Anthony, his choice on whether or not to be with the girl he's wanted so strongly in the past.

With the lyrics :
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My shadow side, so amplified,
Keeps coming back dissatisfied
Elementary son but it's so...

My love affair with everywhere was innocent,
Why do you care?
Someone start the car time to go...
You're the best I know

My sunny side has up and died,
I'm betting that when we collide
The universe will shift into a low
The travesties that we have seen
Are treating me like Benzedrine
Automatic laughter from a pro

My, what a good day for a walk outside
I'd like to get to know you a little better, baby,
God knows that I really tried
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The opening shows his conflict, he's clearly been with this person, and still loves her, but as the song goes on he realizes that he has to let her go. In the final verse, right before Frusciante's Guitar solo (which, surprisingly, sounds like a person wailing uncontrollably) he exclaims

"You don't form in the wet sand,
You don't form at all
You don't form in the wet sand,
I do! yeah!"
Which combined with the guitar, shows that he really was torn by the break up.

Hey is far more mellow than the rest of the entire album, as well as slightly depressing, when the idea of breakup hits home.