Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Record Label: WEA/Warner Bros. Catalog Number: 47386 Producer: Rick Rubin Release Date: June 08 1999 Track Listing Around The World Parallel Universe Scar Tissue Otherside Get On Top Californication Easily Porcelain Emit Remmus I Like Dirt This Velvet Glove Savior Purple Stain Right On Time Road Trippin' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Around The World All around the world We could make time Rompin' and a stompin' 'Cause I'm in my prime Born in the north And sworn to entertain ya 'Cause I'm down for The state of Pennsylvania I try not to whine But I must warn ya 'Bout the girls From California Alabama baby Said hallelujah Good god girl I wish I knew ya I know I know for sure That life is beautiful around the world I know I know it's you You say hello and then I say I do Come back baby 'Cause I'd like to say I've been around the world Back from Bombay Fox hole love Pie in your face Living in and out Of a big fat suitcase Bonafide ride Step aside my Johnson Yes I could In the woods of Wisconsin Wake up the cake It's a lake she's kissin' me As they do when When they do in Sicily I know I know for sure That life is beautiful around the world I know I know it's you You say hello and then I say I do Where you want to go Who you want to be What you want to do Just come with me I saw God And I saw the fountains You and me girl Sittin' in the Swiss mountains Me Oh My O Me and Guy O Freer than a bird 'Cause we're rockin' Ohio Around the world I feel dutiful Take a wife 'Cause life is beautiful I know I know for sure $%%&*^&^$#$@##%&^*(*(&%%^$%$ I know I know it's you &*%^$#@#$%^&*&()**%%$#@#$%*% Mother Russia do not suffer I know you're bold enough I've been around the world And I have seen your love I know I know it's you You say hello then I say I do -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Chorus: Christ I'm a sidewinder I'm a California King I swear it's everywhere It's everything Staring straight up into the sky Oh my my a solar system that fits In your eye Microcosm You could die but your never dead spider web Take a look at the stars in Your head fields of space kid Chorus x 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 Chorus x 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scar Tissue Scar tissue that I wish you saw Sarcastic mister know it all Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 'cause With the birds I'll share With the birds I'll share This lonely view With the birds I'll share This lonely view Push me up against the wall Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra Fallin' all over myself To lick your heart and taste your health 'cause With the birds I'll share This lonely view... Blood loss in a bathroom stall Southern girl with a scarlet drawl Wave good-bye to ma and pa 'cause With the birds I'll share With the birds I'll share This lonely view With the birds I'll share This lonely view Soft spoken with a broken jaw Step outside but not to brawl Autumn's sweet we call it fall I'll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and With the birds I'll share This lonely view... Scar tissue that I wish you saw Sarcastic mister know it all Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 'cause With the birds I'll share With the birds I'll share This lonely view With the birds I'll share This lonely view... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otherside Chorus: How long how long will I slide Separate my side I don't I don't believe it's bad Slit 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 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 Chorus 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 Chorus How long I don't believe it's bad Slit my throat It's all I ever -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get On Top Get on Top Get on Top Hit me come get me I bite but she bit me Go-rilla cunt-illa Sammy D and Salmonella Come with me 'cause I'm an ass killer You're ill but I'm iller I'll malinger on your block and Give the finger to a cop and Pick a lock before I knock and Set you up to get on top Chorus: Complications of a mastermind Last temptation of my kind Extra planetary sign When do we align All in time Right on Get up come sit up I light but she lit up Grass Hopper Show Stopper The life of a Wife Swapper Come with me 'cause I'm a big bopper You do but I wopper Exterminate my cause You want to draw some straws Be the one to see my flaws Make me bleed with painted claws Chorus Get on Top Get on Top Hit me come get me I bite but she bit me Speed Baller Rhodes Scholar Bottom Bitch And a Bottom Dollar Come with me 'cause I'm a Free Faller You hoot but I holler I'll malinger on your block Give the finger to a cop and Pick a lock before I knock on Set you up to get on top Get on Top -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 your 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 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 Chorus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Easily Easily let's get carried away Easily let's get married today Shao Lin shouted a rose From his throat Everything must go A lickin' stick is thicker When you break it to show Everything must go The story of a woman on the morning of a war Remind me if you will exactly what we're fighting for Calling calling for something in the air Calling calling I know you must be there Easily let's get caught in a wave Easily we won't get caught in a cage Shao Lin shakin' for the sake Of his soul ÷ Everything must go Lookin' mighty tired of All the things that you own Everything must go I can't tell you who to idolize You think it's almost over But it's only on the rise Calling calling For something in the air Calling calling I know you must be there The story of a woman on the morning of a war Remind me if you will exactly what we're fighting for Throw me to the wolves because Because there's order in the pack Throw me to the sky Because I know I'm coming back Shao Lin shakin' for the sake Of his soul ÷ Everything must go Lookin' mighty tired of All the things that you own Everything must go The story of a woman on the morning of a war Remind me if you will exactly what we're fighting for Calling calling for something in the air Calling calling I know you must be there I don't want to be your little research monkey boy The creature that I am is only going to destroy Throw me to the wolves Because there's order in the pack Throw me to the sky Because I know I'm coming back Easily -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Porcelain Porcelain Are you wasting away in your skin Are you missing the love of your kin Drifting and floating and fading away Porcelain Do you smell like a girl when you smile Can you bear not to share with your child Drifting and floating and fading away Little lune All day Little lune Porcelain Do you carry the moon in your womb Someone said that you're fading too soon Drifting and floating and fading away Porcelain Are you wasting away in your skin Are you missing the love of your kin Nodding and melting and fading away Little lune All day Little lune... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emit Remmus The California animal is a bear Angeleno but the devil may care Summer time to talk and swear Later maybe we could share some air I'll take you to the movies there We could walk through Leicester Square What could be wetter than An English girl American man Chorus: London in the summer time Call me now use the satellite London in the summer time Cuss me out and it'll feel all right Hesitate but don't refuse The choice was yours but you said choose The look she used was green and sharp Stabbed that boy all in his heart Come what may the cosmos will Take me up and down on Primrose Hill What could be wetter than An English girl American man Chorus Cuss me out and it'll feel all right It's all right now Call me now use the satellite It's all right It's all right Down and out and it'll sound all right It's all right now It's all right The California flower is poppy child Felony sends me all the gold in your smile Drift away from anyone you can Nothing ever goes according to plan Though I know that every river bends Time to say hello to snow on the Thames What could be wetter than An English girl American man Chorus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Like Dirt Some come up and some come young Live to love and give good tongue Sit down get down in the sun Rocket to the woman is on the one Chorus: I like dirt I like dirt I like dirt I like dirt The earth is made of dirt and wood And I'd be water if I could Live in a dream In your stream Live in a dream Some come up and some come young Live to love and give good tongue Sit down get down in the sun Rocket to the woman is on the one Chorus Some come slow and overload Must roll over when you're told Let's unzip and let's unfold A letter to the pet better get it to go Chorus Space is made of everything And I'd be fire that I bring Live in a dream In your spring Live in a dream Some come slow and overload Must roll over when you're told Let's unzip and let's unfold A letter to the pet better get it to go Chorus Some come up and some come young Live to love and give good tongue Sit down get down in the sun Rocket to the woman is on the one Chorus Some come up and some come young Live to love and give good tongue Sit down get down in the sun Rocket to the woman is on the one -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Velvet Glove Close to my skin I'm falling in Someone who's been Sittin' by the phone I'm left alone In another zone John says to live above hell My will is well No one is waiting For me to fail My will could sail yeah It's such a waste to be wasted In the first place I want to taste the taste of Being face to face with common grace To meditate on the warmest dream And when I walk alone I listen To our secret theme Your solar eyes are like Nothing I have ever seen Somebody close That can see right through I'd take a fall and you know That I'd do anything I will for you Sailin' for the sun 'Cause There is one Knows where I'm from I care for you I really do I really do Come closer now So you can lie Right by my side Sit alone in the sun I wrote a letter to you Getting over myself Your solar eyes are like Nothing I have ever seen Somebody close That can see right through I'd take a fall and you know That I'd do anything I will for you Your solar eyes are like Nothing I have ever seen Somebody close That was made for you I'd take a fall and you know That I'd do anything I will for you Close to my skin Someone who's been I'm a falling in Disasters are Just another star Falling in my yard John says to live above hell My will is well Long to be with Someone to tell I love your smell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Savior Dusting off your savior You were always my favorite Always my man ÷ All in a hand To celebrate you is greater Now that I can ÷ Always my man Now you see what I came for No one here is to blame for Misunderstand ÷ All in a hand Just like you 'cause you made me All that I am ÷ All in a hand A butterfly that flaps its wings Affecting almost everything The more I hear the orchestra The more I have something to bring And now I see you in a beautiful And different light He's just a man and any damage done Will be all right Call out my name Call and I came Dusting off your savior Forgiving any behavior He's just a man ÷ All in a hand Your hero's destined to waver Anyone can ÷ Always my man I would never betray you Look at me who could raise you Face in the sand ÷ Safe in your hand You were always my favorite Always my man ÷ All in a hand We are the red hots and We're loving up the love me nots The flowers in your flower pots Are dancing on the table tops And now I see you in a beautiful And different light He's just a man and everything he does Will be all right Call out my name Call and I came Dusting off your savior The life that you have narrated You were my man -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Purple Stain To finger paint is not a sin I put my middle finger in Your monthly blood is what I win I'm in your house now let me spin Python power straight from Monty Celluloid loves got a John Frusciante Spread your head and spread the blanket She's too free and I'm the patient Black and white a red and blue Things that look good on you And if I scream don't let me go A purple stain ÷ I know Knock on wood we all stay good 'Cause we all live in Hollywood With Dracula and Darla Hood Unspoken words were understood Up to my ass in alligators Let's get it on with the alligator haters Did what you did ö did what you said What's the point yo what's the spread Black and white a red and blue Things that look good on you And if I scream don't let me go A purple stain ö I know And if I call for you to stay Come hit the funk on your way It's way out there but I don't care 'Cause this is where ö I go Knock on wood we all stay good 'Cause we all live in Hollywood With Dracula and Darla Hood Unspoken words were understood It's way out there But I don't care 'Cause this is what I want to wear Knock on wood we all stay good 'Cause we all live in Hollywood To finger paint is not a sin I put my middle finger in Your monthly blood is what I win I'm in your house now let me spin Feather light but you can't move this Farley is an angel and I can prove this Purple is a stain upon my pillow Let's Sleep weeping willow Black and white a red and blue Things that look good on you And if I scream don't let me go A purple stain ÷ I know And if I call for you to stay Come hit the funk on your way It's way out there but I don't care 'Cause this is where ö I go Knock on wood we all stay good 'Cause we all live in Hollywood With Dracula and Darla Hood Unspoken words were understood It's way out there But I don't care 'Cause this is what I want to wear Knock on wood we all stay good 'Cause we all live in Hollywood -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Right On Time One shot all I need I've got rhythm when I bleed 'Til death do us part Break my heart so I can start Supercalifragilistic Kiss me in the futuristic Twisted but I must insist It's time to get on top of this Chorus: It's right on time It's right on time It's right on time It's right on time it's right on time it's right on time it's right on time Lookin' fine you're lookin' fine get on 1999 It's right on time Discard to bombard Calling all you shooting stars Holy cow bow wow wow Now I'm here I'm nowhere now Joan of Arc reincarnated Maybe we could be related So much blood to circulate And so much space to decorate Chorus Plain and simple pain I want to but I can't complain Death row let us go It's time to blow up for the show All the world reverberated Coming through we motorcaded Vibrate when we operated Turning up in solid stated Oh Lord -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 U.S.A. Let's go get lost Let's go get lost Chorus: 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 Sur we take some time to linger on We three hunky dory's 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 U.S.A Chorus These smiling eyes are just a mirror for These smiling eyes are just a mirror for Your smiling eyes are just a mirror for -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All songs written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1999 Moebetoblame Music BMI Lyrics reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Produced by Rick Rubin Engineered and Mixed by Jim Scott Additional Engineering: John Sorenson, Greg Fidelman, Greg Collins, David Schiffman Assistant Engineers: John Sorenson, Greg Collins, Jennifer Hilliard, Ok Hee Kim Our Man: Louis "Make It So" Mathieu Production Coordinator: Lindsay Chase Recorded at Ocean Way Recording Mixed at The Village Mastered by Vlado Meller at Sony Music Studio, New York, NY Greg Kurstin played keyboards, and appears courtesy of Luaka Bop Records Patrick Warren played Chamberlin Organ on "Road Trippin'" For Fan Club Information: e-mail to: UR@redhotchilipeppers.net Mail: RHCP, P.O. Box 801, Rockford, MI, 49341 USA (Please include a self-addressed envelope with U.S. Postage or International Postal Coupon.) Official Web Site: http://www.redhotchilipeppers.net Management: Q Prime Inc. 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