Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation 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's settled in a 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?
Firstborn unicorn Hardcore soft porn Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Dream of Californication
Marry me girl, be my fairy 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 And Cobain can you hear the spheres 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
Firstborn unicorn Hardcore soft porn Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Dream of Californication
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?
Firstborn unicorn Hardcore soft porn Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Dream of Californication
honestly never read the lyrics pretty interesting. just assumed it was pozzed pop shit
Gavin Barnes
Chilis are based, Flea and Kiedis are Hollywood kids, son of a jazz musician and 'actor' (pornstar) respectively. A lot of peeple like to knock Kiedis cause he's not a great singer but when he is on lyrically, he is really really on.
Ryan Robinson
It's almost poetry I did when I was a huge rhcp fan then I stopped and read the lyrics in the early 00s. Lso the music video + lyrics talking about how vidya media is basically mind control by (them)
Ryder Martin
>Flea saw Massacre live in 1980 I'm thinking he's based
It's about how Hollywood and California are fake, plastic landscapes that infect people with those messages through the media it spews out. Just from a quick at the lyrics anyway.
Austin Hall
This song has been out for like 2 decades how is this just hitting you now
Robert Sanchez
Kiedis sucks off California every chance he gets, so I doubt he’s trying to be nearly that critical here
Michael Turner
>Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement Moon landing was fake conspiracies?
Blake Stewart
But it did back then and it's even more relevant now Also this It didn't sound as negative as it does now He should remake the song to include a street shitting homeless joke >Born and raised by those who praise, control of population Everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation Hmm I wonder
Liam Cook
Hey OP, thanks for making me actually read these lyrics.
Colton Smith
>music board >doesn't listen to the lyrics of one of the most overplayed songs of all time that a 15 year old can pick up on
Carson Young
This is what I keep saying vis a vis the California meme. The Chilis have like three songs where they mention California, and this, the most prominent, casts it in an incredibly bad light. Further proof that hivemind Yea Forums has no fucking clue what it's talking about.
Brayden Powell
>And if you want these kind of dreams it's Californication >pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging >Born and raised by those who praise, control of population >Everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation >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 If not critical I could only read these lyrics as acceptingly pessimistic
Brandon Jenkins
>implying
Jordan Watson
>The Chilis have like three songs where they mention California lmao
Logan Powell
Gotta agree with user here. Amazing how many people listen to a song and think it's great and catchy until they read the lyrics. Pumped Up Kicks is a perfect example.
Eli Young
Pretty embarrassing that so many itt never picked up on these lyrics when they first listened to ths song in their teens, the vocals aren't at all distorted or raspy or anything..
More importantly though, outside of this one song everything else from the band really is as vapid and shallow as the memes.
And most importantly of all >caring about lyrics
Isaiah Harris
I like By the Way better.
Julian Nguyen
Gonna rewatch is the video since u plebs missed out on the deep lyrics lmak Otherside is kino music tho its about suicide Same with anything by mgmt Especially true with them because their first album is the weakest one Don't mind me just a based boomer rushing not dragging on pseudo mu nerd zoomers and brainlets I kekked hard at this too That's the vibe tho it fits perfectly T. Aussie who's never been to usa Agreed on the hive mind part Surely this isn't the first time anons have tried to talk about this songs lyrics in over a decade tho should search the archives Ironically I was 15 or so when I got heavy into this band during their 00s rivival a mate brang around the DVD I never stopped listening to it.
>T. Aussie who's never been to usa Both untrue although I wish I'd never been, is a shithole
Cooper Brooks
The lyrics sound like bullshit gibberish >psychic spies from China come to steal your mind's elation It sounds like stream of consciousness bullshit but then you realize it's true. But all the unicorn shit makes it seem nonsensical if you are just listening for the music.
Xavier Price
Is it basically cyberpunk 2077/gta v but worse? I reckon rhcp Californication would have made a fun vidya game Also hilarious how close it looks to gta SA that came out what 8 years later
Caleb Williams
Because it's the fucking Chili peppers, they aren't known for their good lyrics outside of Under The Bridge
Owen Cooper
Just because zoomers here have no idea what rhcp is doesn't mean shit
If it ain't on Spotify mumblecloud they don't care T. Chad boomer YouTube music playlist
Joseph Brooks
RHCP literally has 17 million spotify listeners per month and all of their songs have over 100 million streams
Oliver Diaz
Californication is pretty much GTA V man. Almost dead on. And I was just intensely put off by my experience in the US, it wasn't so disimilar to how it is where I live but maybe a notch higher on the scale. Plus the climate there is for lizards not humans.
Andrew Wood
That's not exactly what I was getting at but thanks for being appropriately verbose So niggermexicunt lizards must like it now it's a literal seppo shithole
