Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication Lyrics


Red Hot Chili Peppers Lyrics

Californication Lyrics
Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your mind's elation
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations
And if you want these kind of dreams
It's Californication

It's the edge of the world
and all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the East
At least it settles in the final location
It's understood that Hollywood
sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that war you're waging

First born unicorn
Hardcore soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Marry me girl be my ferry to the world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard
It's Californication

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the Spears
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderaan's not far away
It's Californication

Born and raised by those who praise
Control of population
Everybody's been there
And I don't mean on vacation

First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

[Instrumental break]

Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
They're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
From Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest, there is no test
But this is what you're craving

First born unicorn
Hardcore soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Californication Info:

• The single was released on June 20th, 2000, certified gold by the RIAA, and topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks & Billboard Modern Rock Tracks charts.

• The song is about the decline in Western civilization (pornography, plastic surgery, etc). Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith, & John Frusciante share writing credits on the song. Rick Rubin produced the track for the album 'Californication'.

• There are many references in this song including a Star Wars 'and Alderaan's not far away', Star Trek 'Space may be the Final Frontier but it's made in a Hollywood Basement', & Dorothy Stratten 'First born Unicorn/hard core-soft porn'.

• Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris directed the video-game format music video. The video won a 2000 MTV Music Video Award for Best Direction.




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