The Zephyr Song

"The Zephyr Song" was the second single released for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' eighth studio album By the Way. The song, as a single, was released in two parts. Both editions held two previously unheard-of B-sides, making it, collectively, hold four non-LP tracks. This is the largest amount of accumulated unreleased studio recorded B-sides any solitary single the Red Hot Chili Peppers have ever released.

During the By the Way tour, the song was played extensively at virtually all live concerts. Since the release of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' newest album, Stadium Arcadium (and its subsequent tour), however, "The Zephyr Song" has since been completely removed and detached from any set lists. It has not been played once since 2005. It has also had a significant amount of online discussion in a few forums that the song is actually about the act of Dogging (sexual slang).

B-side: "Body of Water" "Someone" "Out of Range" "Rivers of Avalon"
Released: December 3rd 2002
Format: CD Single, vinyl
Recorded: 2002
Genre: Alternative rock
Length: 3:53
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Producer: Rick Rubin

Can I get your hand to write on
Just a piece of leg to bite on
What a night to fly my kite on
Do you want to flash your light on

Take a look
It's on display for you
Coming down
No, not today

Did you meet your forture teller
Get it off with no propeller
Do it up, it's on with Stella
What a way to finally smell her

Pick it up
If not too strong for you
Take a piece
And pass it on

Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We'll find a place together

Fly on my wind

Rebel and a liberator
Find a way to be a skater
Rev it up to levitate her
Super friendly aviator

Take a look
It's on display for you
Coming down
No, not today

Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We'll find a place together

In the water where I center my emotion
All the world can pass me by
Fly away on my zephyr
We'll find a place together

(whoa) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa - do you
(yeah) yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(whoa) whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa - want to
(yeah) yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We'll find a place together

In the water where I center my emotion
All the world can pass me by
Fly away on my zephyr
We're gonna live forever

Forever