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The label wanted the obvious ones: Give It Away , Under the Bridge , Suck My Kiss . The MTV bones. But Anthony had a different knot in his stomach. He was forty-one. He had buried Hillel Slovak. He had fired Jack Irons. He had watched John quit, descend into heroin’s abyss, nearly die, and then resurrect himself like a ghost who remembered how to play guitar.

“A greatest hits record,” Flea said, voice muffled by the cushion. “It’s what you make when you’re old. Or dead.” greatest hits red hot chili peppers

The second new track came from a darker place. John played a riff that sounded like a siren, and Anthony wrote about a friend who’d just relapsed—a man who called from a payphone, voice wet and shaking, saying he’d lost everything again. Save the Population . The chorus was a desperate prayer: “I want to save the population / But I can’t save myself.” The label wanted the obvious ones: Give It

Anthony closed his eyes. He remembered his father’s old cassette deck. A girl on a beach who smelled like jasmine and sorrow. The word fortune came to him, then faded . He scribbled in his notebook: “Not everyone is out to get me / Not everyone can be my friend.” He was forty-one

“They’re good,” Chad said quietly.