SUMMER IN THE CITY (Joe Cocker)
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirt- 'n' -gritty
Bend down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk
Hotter than a match-head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Just bide the heat, it will be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like nights
In the summer in the city (2)
Cool town, evening in the city
Dressed so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Running up the stairs
Gonna meet you on the rooftop / Chorus(2)
SUMMERTIME
(Luis Armstrong & Ella Fitzerald)
Summertime and the living is easy,
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high.
Oh, your daddy is rich and your ma' is good lookin',
So hush, little baby, don't you cry.
One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singin',
Yes, you'll spread your wings
and you'll take to the sky.
But till that morning there's nothing can harm you,
With daddy and mammy, standing by.
Summertime and the living is easy,
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high.
Oh, your daddy is rich and your ma is good lookin',
So hush, little baby, baby, don't you cry.
Oh, don't you cry.
NO WOMAN NO CRY (Bob Marley)
No, woman, no cry; (4)
'Cause - 'cause - 'cause I remember
when a we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - observing the hypocrites - yeah! -
Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah!
Good friends we have,
oh, good friends we have lost
Along the way, yeah!
In this great future, you can't forget your past;
So dry your tears, I seh. Yeah!
Chorus: No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry. Eh, yeah!
A little darlin', don't shed no tears:
No, woman, no cry. Eh!
Said - said - said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown, yeah!
And then Georgie would make the fire lights,
I see, logwood burnin' through the nights, yeah!
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge, say,
Of which I'll share with you, yeah!
My feet is my only carriage
And so I've got to push on through.
Oh, while I'm gone,
Everything's gonna be all right! (8)
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry. Eh, yeah!
A little darlin', don't shed no tears:
No, woman, no cry. Eh!
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Lloyd Webber)
С hristine:
In sleep he sang to me , in dreams he came
That voice which calls to me, and speaks my name
And do I dream again?
For now I find
The phantom of the opera is there
Inside my mind
Phantom:
Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you
Grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me to glance behind
The phantom of the opera is there
Inside your mind
С hristine:
Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
I am the mask you wear
Phantom:
It’s me they hear
Both:
Your (my) spirit and my (your) voice
In one combined
The phantom of the opera is there
Inside my (your) mind
Chorus:
Is that the phantom of the opera?
Beware the phantom of the opera!
Phantom:
In all your fantasies you always knew
That man and mystery
С hristine:
Were both in you
Both:
And in this labyrinth
Where night is blind
The phantom of the opera is here (there)
С hristine:
Inside my mind
Phantom:
Sing, my angel of music!
С hristine:
He’s there
The phantom of the opera
Phantom:
Sing ...
Sing for me ...
Sing, my angel of music!
Sing for me ...
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
(extracts from the rock opera)
Poor Jerusalem
Jesus:
Neither you, Simon, nor the fifty thousand
Nor the Romans, nor the Jews
Nor Judas, nor the Twelve, nor the Priests,
nor the Scribes
Nor doomed Jerusalem itself
Understand what power is
Understand what glory is
Understand at all …understand at all
If you knew all that I knew, my poor Jerusalem
You’ d see the truth, but you close your eyes,
But you close your eyes.
While you live your troubles are many,
poor Jerusalem
To conquer death you only have to die
You only have to die.
Pilate’s Dream
Pilate:
I dreamed I met a Galilean
A most amazing man
He had that look you very rarely find
A haunting, hunted kind
I asked him to say what had happened
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How it all began
I asked again. He never said a word
As if he hadn’t heard
And next the room was full of wild and angry men
They seemed to hate this man,
they fell on him and then
They disappeared again.
Then I saw thousands of millions
crying for this man
And then I heard them mentioning my name
And leaving me the blame.
The Temple
Moneylenders and merchants:
Roll on up – for the price is down
Come on in – for the best in town
Take your pick of the finest wine
Lay your bets on this bird of mine
Name your price – I’ve got everything
Come and buy – it’s all going fast
Borrow cash on the finest terms
Hurry now while the stocks still last
Jesus:
My temple should be a house of prayer
But you’ve made it a den of thieves
Get out! Get out!
My time is almost through
Little left to do
After all I’ve tried for three years
Seems like thirty … seems like thirty
Crowd:
See my eyes – I can hardly see
See me stand – I can hardly walk
I believe you can make me whole
See my tongue – I can hardly talk
See my skin – I’m a mess of blood
See my legs – I can hardly stand
I believe you can make me well
See my purse – I’m a poor, poor man
Will you touch, will you mend me, Christ
Won’t you touch, will you heal me, Christ
Will you kiss, you can cure me, Christ
Won’t you kiss, will you pay me, Christ
Jesus:
There’s too many of you – don’t push me
There’s too little of me – don’t crowd me
Heal yourselves!
Everything Is Alright
Mary Magdalene:
Try not to get worried, try not to turn on to
Problems that upset you, oh, don’t you know
Everything’s alright, yes, everything’s fine
Jesus:
And I think I shall sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without me tonight
Mary Magdalene:
Close your eyes, close your eyes
And forget all about us tonight
I Don’t Know How To Love Him
Mary Magdalene:
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I don’t know how to love him
What to do how to move him
I’ve been changed, yes, really changed
In these past few days when I see myself
I seem like someone else
I don’t know how to take this
I don’t see why he moves me
He’s a man, he’s just a man
And I’ve had so many men before
In very many ways
He’s just one more
Should I bring him down? Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love? Let my feelings out?
I’d never thought I’d come to this – what it’s all about
Don’t you think it’s rather funny
I should be in this position
I’m the one who’s always been
So calm, so cool, no lover’s fool
Running every show
He scares me so
I never thought I’d come to this – what it’s all about
Yet if he said he loved me
I’d be lost, I’d be frightened
I couldn’t cope, just couldn’t cope
I’d turn my head, I’d back away
I wouldn’t want to know
He scares me so
I want him so
I love him so
KURT COBAIN & NIRVANA (1967- 1994). Desperate spokesman for the Grunge generation.
On Tuesday, 5 April 1994, Kurt Cobain blew his head off with a shotgun. The body was discovered on 8 April. In the autopsy, 1.52 mg of heroin were found in his blood, three times a fatal dose.
Through his music he had become an icon, a symbol for the young of their politics and aspirations. He made this clear in the suicide note found beside his body. " I haven't felt the excitement of listening to music along with really writing something for years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. The fact is I can't fool you. It's simply isn't fair to you or to me. The worst crime I could think of would be to put people off by faking it, by pretending I am having 100 per cent fun. Sometimes I feel as if I should have a punch-in time clock before I walk on stage. I still can't get out the frustration, the guilt and the empathy I have for everybody. There's good in all of us and I simply love people too much. So much that it makes me feel too f.. .ing sad. Too sad, a little sensitive, unappreciative, Pisces, Jesus, man." Having painted this paradox of the rock star who didn't want to be a rock star, at the same time he conformed to all rock star expectations. The note finished " So remember: it's better to burn out than to fade away". With this quotation from " Out of the Blue, Into the Black", Cobain placed himself directly in the tradition of other rock deaths. The song had been written in 1978 by Neil Young in despair following the death of Elvis Presley and the rise of punk. Ironically it was exactly by the fusion of punk with seventies rock that Cobain and Nirvana would transform rock music in the nineties.
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There is little to Aberdeen but trailer parks and logging yards. The town gives way to endless hills of pine and spruce on one side, on the other at the mouth of the Wishkar river, to' the Pacific. The highway stops here, a dead-end in a dead-end town. Last stop America, next stop China. It was here that Kurt Cobain was born on 20 February 1967. His father Donald had a good job as a mechanic at the local Chevron station while his mother Wendy kept home in the house the Cobains bought in Aberdeen 6 months after Kurt was born. The neighbourhood was not the best and the family was far from rich, but in Kurt's recollection the period stands out as one of happiness and contentment. His aunt Mary who played the guitar and sang in the bars around Aberdeen gave Kurt the Beatles and Monkeys records and a bass drum. He used to march around with it singing the Beatles songs. " Ever since I can remember, since I was a little kid I wanted to be John Lennon playing drums." He was an extremely happy child. He got up every day with such joy that there was another day to be had and he couldn't wait to find out what it was going to bring him. However, when Kurt was seven, his life was changed and for him an idyllic childhood ended. His parents' marriage fell apart and soon they divorced. The divorce changed Kurt completely. He became withdrawn and moody. He took against his mother's new boyfriend, " a huge mean wife-beater" and ran wild until his mother lost patience and sent him to live with his Dad. At first, the move worked well. However, in 1978 Donald remarried and Kurt felt betrayed. He began to cut school, refused to do chores at home and picked on his stepbrother. Don's response was to beat him. The one refuge for Kurt was in music. He listened to Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Kiss. He was inspired by the new movement from England called 'punk'. For his fourteenth birthday his uncle Chuck gave him a secondhand electric guitar and Kurt wrote some of his own music. He left school in May 1985, six weeks before graduation.
In the winter of 1985 he slept under the bridge and at night painted the walls around Aberdeen with graffiti slogans. It was the time when he began to take drugs. To earn money Kurt formed a band to play in the bars. He played with Chris Novoselic and Aaron Burckhard and they began to make headway with Kurt's new songs like Hairspray Queen, Floyd the Barber or Downer. They named themselves Skid Row, Throat Oyster, Windowpane, Bliss and then finally Nirvana.
Nirvana's sound was not born in a vacuum. The spirit of punk classics was fused with the purity of the seventies' rock, a style that was born in Seattle and christened Grunge. In January 1988 Nirvana made its first demo tape of ten songs and in June 1989 released their first album Bleach. They went on their first US tour having no road crew, no one to find them a place to eat or sleep. But to Kurt the whole thing was an adventure. He saw the United States for the first time. Later in the year they made a trip to Europe. They had to put up with the tight schedule, the poor food, the cramped bus and poor equipment. The last was due to their penchant for smashing their instruments on the stage which became a Nirvana ritual and a standard part of the show. In April 1990 Kurt began writing songs for the second album trying to find a blend of a heavy sound with melody, and a year later the band went to Los Angeles to record it. It was called Nevermind and began with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' which Kurt saw as a song about his audience and the band in relation to it. When the album was finished, they all were pleased with the result. Nevermind opened at 144 on the Billboard chart and in two months reached number one, selling over 300,000 copies a week. Their lives were transformed, their audiences grew, but the change didn't agree with Kurt. His new fans got on his nerves.
At this time he began to see Courtney Love, the daughter of Grateful Dead roadie, who was a stripper, a singer, a movie actress and finally founded her own band, Hole. Kurt began to do heroin daily. He said he needed the drug to ease the pain he had in his stomach, a chronic condition that the doctors were unable to diagnose or treat. Kurt's drug use was putting a strain on the band. His moods were erratic, his behavior unreliable. Courtney was going to have a baby and they decided the time was right to get married. The ceremony took place in Hawaii on a cliff above a beach on 24 February 1992. In August their daughter Frances Bean was born.
By the time Nirvana began working on the next album, Grunge had become mainstream. The charts were dominated by the Seattle sound. In the process Grunge has lost its edge and its threat to the establishment. This dismayed Kurt. In Utero was released in September 1993. Kurt's lyrics was full of bitterness and rage, laying out his scorn for his fans, the record company and rock press. 'All Apologies' ends the album with Kurt sounding tired and defeated. While the record didn't create the hysterical reaction of Nevermind, Nirvana were now thoroughly established MTV darlings, the interviews, reviews and videos went ahead, their tour to promote the album sold out everywhere before they played a note. Cobain could not escape; he had become the kind of rock star he couldn't stand.
In July 1993 at the New Music Seminar in New York he played an acoustic set. The audience was dismayed, booing and shouting at him to play some rock music. He puzzled the audience again by appearing in the MTV 'Unplugged" series. After Christmas the band went on tour to Europe. All went well until the end of February when Kurt just seemed to come to a halt. After a concert on 1 March in Munich, he declared he had enough and wouldn't play again. On 3 March he made his first suicide attempt after his quarrel with Courtney. She came back the next morning to find him in a coma and he was saved. His second attempt on 5 April was fatal.
Being the product of a punk tradition had a high price. He wanted to be an outcast, an irritant, to be heard and understood by only a small community of believers that shared his punk ideas. Instead, Nirvana had become a bloated rock event and it meant going bankrupt to Cobain. He loathed himself and despised those around him. In his songs he had taunted his audience from the beginning; despite his scorn they kept listening. In his rock star death of drugs and suicide he taunted them again; there would be nothing more to listen to.
(From Andrew Grade's book 'They Died Too Young.’)
SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to loose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty world
Chorus:
Hello, hello, hello, how low? (3)
Hello, hello, hello
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino,
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah, yeah
I'm worst at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end
/ Chorus
And I forget just what I taste
Oh, yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh, well, whatever, nevermind
Chorus … Yay, a denial (9)
ABOUT A GIRL
I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend
I do think you fit this shoe
I do, but you have a clue
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night free, I do
I'm standing in your line
I do, hope you have the time
I do, pick the number two
I do, keep a date with you
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night free, I do
I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend
I do think you fit this shoe
I do, but you have a clue
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night free, I do
COME AS YOU ARE
Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an old enemy
Take your time, hurry up
The choice is yours, don't be late
Take a rest as a friend
As an old memory ah
Memory ah (3)
Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend as an old memory ah
Memory ah (3)
And I swear that I don't have a gun
No, I don't have a gun (2)
Memory ah (3)
LITHIUM
I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends
They're in my head
I'm so ugly, but that's ok, 'cause so are you
I've broken our mirrors
Sunday morning is every day for all I care
And I'm not scared
Light my candles in a daze
'Cause I've found God
Hey, hey, hey (6) Yeah
I'm so lonely
And that's ok, I shaved my head and I'm not sad
And just maybe I'm to blame for all I've heard
And I'm not sure
I'm so excited, I can't wait to meet you there
And I don't care
I'm so horny, but that's ok my will is good
Hey, hey, hey (6) Yeah
Chorus: I like it - I'm not gonna crack
I miss you - I'm not gonna crack
I love you - I'm not gonna crack
I killed you - I'm not gonna crack
ALL APOLOGIES
What else should I be?
All apologies
What else should I say?
Everyone is gay
What else should I write?
I don't have the right
What else should I be?
All apologies
Chorus:In the sun
In the sun, I feel as one
In the sun, in the sun ...
I'm married, buried
I wish I was like you
Easily amused
Find my nest of salt
Everything is my fault
I'll take all the blame
Aqua seafoam shame
Sunburn with freezeburn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy
/ Chorus
All alone is all we all are (13)
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
In their nearly two-decade-long career, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have demonstrated an instinct for survival that would do any rock band proud. In the face of countless problems with personnel, struggles with drugs, and even death, the band has managed to forge a style — in both music and performance — which a legion of groups try to imitate. Essentially a frat-style party band given to outrageous antics and an irresistible blend of punk, thrash, and funk, the Chilis have blazed a trail, which groups like the Offspring and Sugar Ray have followed. Moreover, to judge by the interest that accompanies the band's every move, the Chili Peppers as a musical force will continue for many years to come.
The Chili Peppers' beginnings can be traced to Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, where Michael Balzary (Flea) and Anthony Kiedis met at the age of 15. Both were California transplants: Flea was born in Melbourne, Australia, and lived in New York before moving to L.A. as a teen, while Kiedis left his mother's home in Michigan at the age of 11 to come to live with his father, who was a struggling actor. The son of jazz musician, Flea was an accomplished trumpet player who idolized Herb Alpert and Louis Armstrong. As for Kiedis's artistic aspirations, he was having sporadic luck playing small roles in films and on television.
Once Kiedis was asked to open up with something for a band at a local strip club. He and Flea came up with a song called "Out in LA", they played this song together with schoolmates Hillel Slovak (guitar) and Jack Irons (drums). The performance was meant as a joke but the audience loved it and the club manager wanted them to come back again. During their set girls were dancing round them topless. Naturally the girls got more attention than the band. When they came next time they had taken off all their clothes except for one sock ... In that way they could compete with the strippers.
In 1983 taking a name used by Louis Armstrong's jazz quintet in the 1920s, the group christened themselves the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and once again began making the rounds about the L.A. clubs. Soon they became the hottest group in L.A., and after some months they got signed by EMI.
Released in 1984, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and the 1985 release titled Freaky Styley failed to generate much interest on the part of record buyers. The band's live performances, however, were a great success. More threatening to the group than its poor record sales, however, was the fact that both Kiedis and Slovak had begun to take heroin. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, released in 1987, was more commercially successful. Though the album took only No. 148 on the Billboard charts, the improved sales together with the Chilis' growing number of fans seemed a good base for a major breakthrough. During the tour of Europe Slovak and Kiedis supported one another's efforts to remain drug free. But after the tour Slovak returned to his old habit, with horrific consequences. One day police discovered Slovak dead from a lethal combination of cocaine and heroin.
Devastated, Kiedis decided the time had come to treat his own drug-taking habits in a serious manner, and he retreated first to Mexico, and then to a rehab center in California. Irons left the band entirely. (He subsequently became the drummer for Pearl Jam.) Eventually, however, Kiedis and Flea decided to carry on, and in 1989 the two set about finding replacements for Slovak and Irons. John Frusciante was a quick choice as guitarist, and, after a series of auditions, Chad Smith was selected as a drummer.
Released in September 1989, Mother's Milk left no doubt that the revived Chili Peppers was a force to be reckoned with. On the strength of hits such as "Knock Me Down" and "Higher Ground" (a cover of the Stevie Wonder single), it became the band's first gold album. After signing to Warner Brothers, the group began work with ace producer Rick Rubin. Aided by heavy rotation on MTV, 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik broke the band in a big way, with songs like the propulsive "Give It Away" and the ballad "Under the Bridge" giving full range to the group's songwriting skills. In addition to reaching platinum status, the album, earned the Chilis their first Grammy Award.
Just as the Chili Peppers seemed at the height of their powers, however, personnel troubles once again threatened to shatter the band. On May 7, 1992, shortly after the news came that the Chilis would be headlining Lollapalooza rock festival that summer, Frusciante announced that he was quitting. With the addition of former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro the Chili Peppers started work on a new album in late 1994. Released in August 1995, One Hot Minute went platinum in a mere two months, but the making the album had been no easy process. Despite some splendid moments together — including a triumphant appearance at the Woodstock '94 festival and a No. 1 cover of the Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster" — the alliance between Navarro and the other Chili Peppers didn't work.
In April 1998 John Frusciante reunited with the Chili Peppers and a year later the group entered the studio to begin work on a new collection of songs. The resulting album, Californication, was released on June 7, 1999 to mostly favorable reviews. At September's 2000 MTV Video Music Awards they not only won two awards, but were also honored with the 2000 Video Vanguard Award for their body of work.
"Californication" melds a strong, simple melody to one of Anthony Kiedis' best (or at least most comprehensible) lyrics, creating a sad, dreamy Hollywoodland ode to sex, eternal youth, and the silver screen. Even better is the beautiful closing song, "Road Tripping." In perhaps the least affected lyric of the bunch, Kiedis celebrates the California coastline as only a native can. (from one of the album reviews)
“It does have some California references, yeah. I mean, we're from Hollywood, and Anthony writes the words and lyrics and stuff. The song "Californication" is his take on how he travels and sees how Hollywood and California affects the rest of the world, and how people look at the whole media thing and see how you're supposed to dress like this and act like this — and a lot of times it's pretty negative. So it's a very honest portrayal; there's a lot of good and bad things about California and Hollywood.” (from Chad Smith's interview)
PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Deep inside of a parallel universe
It's getting harder and harder
To tell what came first
Under water where thoughts can breathe easily
Far away you were made in a sea
Just like me
Christ I'm a sidewinder I'm a
California king
I swear it's everywhere
It's everything
Staring straight up into the sky
Of my mind a solar system that fits
In your eye microcosm
You could die but you're never dead spider web
Take a look at the stars in
Your head fields of space kid
Christ I'm a sidewinder I'm a
California king
I swear it's everywhere
It's everything (2)
Psychic changes are born in your heart entertain
A nervous breakthrough that makes us the same
Bless your heart girl
Kill the pressure it's raining on
Salty cheeks
When you hear the beloved song
I am with you
Christ I'm a sidewinder I'm a
California king
I swear it's everywhere
It's everything (2)
UNDER THE BRIDGE
Sometimes I feel
Like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry
I drive on her streets
'Cause she's my companion
I walk through her hills
'Cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie
I don't ever wanna feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way (2)
It's hard to believe
That there's nobody out there
It's hard to believe
That I'm all alone
At least I have her love
The city she loves me
Lonely as I am
Together we cry
I don't ever wanna feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way (2)
Under the bridge downtown
s where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away
OTHERSIDE
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
Slitting my throat
It’s all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on
Chorus
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
Slitting my throat
It’s all I ever
Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray’s full and I’m spillin’ my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Scarlet starlet and she’s in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
Slitting my throat
It’s all I ever
Turn me on take me for a hard ride
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that
It’s not my friend
I tear it down I tear it down
And then it’s born again
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
Slitting my throat
It’s all I ever
How long I don’t believe it’s bad
Slitting my throat
It’s all I ever
CALIFORNICATION
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 kinds 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 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 it war you're waging
Chorus: First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
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
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon'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
Chorus: First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
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 are just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
From Califonication
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
Chorus: First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
ROAD TRIPPIN'
Road trippin' with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It's time to leave this town
It's time to steal away
Let's go get lost
Anywhere in the USA
Let's go get lost
Let's go get lost
Blue you sit so pretty
West of the one
Sparkles light with yellow icing
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
So much as come before those battles lost and won
This life is shining more forever in the sun
Now let us check our heads
And let us check the surf
Staying high and dry’s
More trouble than it's worth
In the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
In big surf we take some time to linger on
We three hunky dories got our snakefinger on
Now let us drink the stars
It's time to steal away
Let's go get lost
Right here in the USA
Let's go get lost
Let's go get lost
Blue you sit so pretty
West of the one
Sparkles light with yellow icing
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
Your smiling eyes are just a mirror for
DANI CALIFORNIA
Gettin' born in the state of Mississippi
Papa was a copper and mama was a hippie
In Alabama she would swing a hammer
Price you gotta pay when you break the panorama
She never knew that there was anything more than poor
What in the world does your company take me for?
Black bandana, sweet Louisiana
Robbin' on a bank in the state of Indiana
She's a runner, rebel and a stunner
On her merry way sayin baby whatcha gonna
Lookin' down the barrel of a hot metal forty five
Just another way to survive
California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She's my priestess, I'm your priest, yeah, yeah
She's a lover, baby and a fighter
Shoulda seen her coming when it got a little brighter
With a name like Dani California
Day was gonna come when I was gonna mourn ya
A little loaded she was stealin' another breath
I love my baby to death
California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She's my priestess, I'm your priest, yeah, yeah
Who knew the other side of you?
Who knew what others died to prove?
Too true to say good bye to you
Too true to say, say, say...
Push the fader gifted animator
One for the now and eleven for the later
Never made it up to Minnesota
North Dakota man was a gunnin' for the quota
Down in the badlands
she was savin' the best for last
It only hurts when I laugh
Gone too fast …
California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She's my priestess, I'm your priest, yeah, yeah
John Frusciante + Anthony Kiedis+ Chad Smith + Michael Balzary (Flea)
[1] They: the forecasters
[2] we’re in for snow: snow is expected
[3] see us through the worst of it: find us through the worst of the winter and into spring
[4] as long as it doesn’t rain: I don’t mind what happens provided it doesn’t rain
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