Red Hot Chili Peppers: Wet Sand Meaning

Wet Sand Lyrics

My shadow's 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...

1. anonymous

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   Jun 30th 2008 !⃝

   Ok, this is very literal, but you don't form in the wet sand could be a reference to having made love on a beach, and left an impression of her body in the sand, but he's alone now, so she doesn't form in the wet sand, because she's not there.
2. sbusa

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   Mar 10th 2008 !⃝

   "On the verge, just one more dose/I'm traveling from coast to coast."
   -I think this is referring to Anthony's drug addiction, when he would travel to different places to get away from California, where he would do a drug binge and then return home.
3. midnitegreen

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   May 3rd 2007 !⃝

   Sand that is wet is mud. Maybe it is about lack of clarity.

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4. midnitegreen

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   Apr 23rd 2007 !⃝

   It is a mysterious song and has more meaning than you would think.

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5. anonymous

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   Feb 1st 2007 !⃝

   This was said by the artists in an interview
   
   love but not only the the bright side of love but also the dark side of it and it just bunched together and loving it all

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6. anonymous

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   Dec 24th 2006 !⃝

   i agree with people above. He is dating this girl who he thought would be fantastic, yet he comes back "so dissatisfied" like he says in the song. She doesn't turn out ot be what he wasnts and he loses love for her and when he says"you don't form into wet sand" probly means she didn't quite fit in his life like he imagined.
   
   like I've said before I'm not great at getting what I want to say out there.
   
   -timma
7. anonymous

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   Nov 27th 2006 !⃝

   "you don't form in the wet sand" the ideas he had about certain things aren't concrete. The beliefs he had in certain people or things aren't real enough to make a mark in sand.
   
   It's probably about a girl or drug addiction or both. But it's universal to anything we put too much faith in, or rather when we put faith in the wrong things.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 25th 2006 !⃝

   I saw an interview on youtube and when John was jamming Anthony overheard him babbling what sounded like 'Wet sand'. So though the meaning of wet sand is what you dudes have already said, they stumbled across it accidentally.

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9. anonymous

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   Nov 17th 2006 !⃝

   I believe what he is trying to say in this song is that he was dating a girl he thought he was interested in but then he realized there was nothing to her.when he says,"you don't form in the wet sand" I think he is trying to say that she has no personality and pull herself out of a hole she dug, which is drug addiction.
10. anonymous

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    Oct 23rd 2006 !⃝

    I believe this songs, gives the messege of you're not all you're cut out to be, "you don't form in the wet sand, you don't form at all" meaning you don't have everything going for you that you thought you did.
11. anonymous

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    Oct 22nd 2006 !⃝

    "You don't form in the wet sand" I believe it means that you're not all you're cut out to be.

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