I Could Have Lied

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"I Could Have Lied"
"I Could Have Lied" cover
Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Recorded May - June 1991 at The Mansion in Los Angeles, California
Genre Funk-rock
Length 4:04
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Red Hot Chili Peppers
Producer(s) Rick Rubin
Blood Sugar Sex Magik track listing
  1. "The Power of Equality"
  2. "If You Have to Ask"
  3. "Breaking the Girl"
  4. "Funky Monks"
  5. "Suck My Kiss"
  6. "I Could Have Lied"
  7. "Mellowship Slinky in B Major"
  8. "The Righteous & the Wicked"
  9. "Give It Away"
  10. "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"
  11. "Under the Bridge"
  12. "Naked in the Rain"
  13. "Apache Rose Peacock"
  14. "The Greeting Song"
  15. "My Lovely Man"
  16. "Sir Psycho Sexy"
  17. "They're Red Hot"

I Could Have Lied is a song by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. It appears on their 1991 album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The sixth track on the album, it is a ballad in which Anthony Kiedis sings about a troubled relationship he had with Sinéad O'Connor. According to the 1991 bio Funky Monks, the song started out as a poem, Rick Rubin(Blood Sugar Sex Magik producer) asked Kiedis if he could take a look at Kiedis' collection of poems and songs at the time, looking for ideas. Immidiately "I Could Have Lied" caught Rubin's eye and questioned Kiedis. Asking him to make it into a song. And finished. John Frusciante's guitar plays a very prominent role in this song, including two solos. The song changes key between B Minor and E Minor several times throughout its duration. It features a more mellow and slow feel, a style which was not previously associated with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This style would signpost the direction the band would take in later albums Californication, By the Way, and Stadium Arcadium.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis | John Frusciante | Flea | Chad Smith
Hillel Slovak | Dave Navarro | Cliff Martinez | Jack Sherman | Arik Marshall | Jesse Tobias | D. H. Peligro | Jack Irons
Discography
Studio albums: The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) | Freaky Styley (1985) | The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) | Mother's Milk (1989) | Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) | One Hot Minute (1995) | Californication (1999) | By the Way (2002) | Stadium Arcadium (2006)
EPs, Live albums and compilations: The Abbey Road E.P. (1988) | What Hits!? (1992) | Live Rare Remix Box (1994) | Out in L.A. (1994) | Under the Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | The Best of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | Greatest Hits (2003) | Live in Hyde Park (2004)
Singles: 1984: True Men Don't Kill Coyotes, Get Up and Jump | 1985: Jungle Man, American Ghost Dance, Catholic School Girls Rule, Hollywood (Africa) | 1987: Fight Like a Brave, Me & My Friends | 1989: Knock Me Down, Higher Ground, Taste the Pain | 1990: Show Me Your Soul | 1991: Give It Away | 1992: Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Behind the Sun, Breaking the Girl | 1993: If You Have to Ask, Soul to Squeeze | 1995: Warped, My Friends | 1996: Aeroplane, Coffee Shop, Shallow Be Thy Game, Love Rollercoaster | 1999: Scar Tissue, Around the World | 2000: Otherside, Californication, Road Trippin', Parallel Universe | 2002: By the Way, The Zephyr Song | 2003: Can't Stop, Dosed, Universally Speaking, Fortune Faded | 2006: Dani California, Tell Me Baby, Snow ((Hey Oh)) | 2007: Desecration Smile, Hump de Bump
Other pages: Videography | Songs | B-sides Compilation
Related articles
Chain Reaction | What Is This? | Jane's Addiction | Pearl Jam | Fear | The Mars Volta | Rick Rubin | "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
Categories: Red Hot Chili Peppers | Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs
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