Written By: Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith, Michael Balzary, John Frusciante

Lyrics (Start at 0:08):

How long, how long will I slide?
Well, separate my side
I don’t, I don’t believe it’s bad
Slit my throat, it’s all I ever

I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I gotta take it on the otherside

Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I gotta take it on the otherside

Take it on the otherside
Take it on, take it on

How long, how long will I slide?
Separate my side
I don’t, I don’t believe it’s bad
Slit my throat, it’s all l ever

Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray’s full and I’m spillin’ my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut?
I gotta take it on the otherside

A scarlet starlet and she’s in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
I gotta take it on the otherside

Take it on the otherside
Take it on, take it on

How long, how long will I slide?
Separate my side
I don’t, I don’t believe it’s bad
Slit my throat, it’s all I ever

Turn me on, take me for a hard ride
Burn me out, leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that it’s not my friend
I tear it down, I tear it down, and then it’s born again

How long, how long will I slide?
Separate my side
I don’t, I don’t believe it’s bad
Slittin’ my throat, it’s all I ever had (How long?)
I don’t, I don’t believe it’s bad
Slit my throat, it’s all l ever