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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 {{wp|Californication (word)|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
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
And {{wp|Kurt Cobain|Cobain}} can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off [[David Bowie:Station To Station (1976)|Station to Station]]
And {{wp|Alderaan|Alderaan's}} not far away
It's Californication
(''Ooh ooh'')
(''Ooh ooh'')
(''Ooh ooh'') Born and raised by those who praise
(''Ooh ooh'') Control of population
(''Ooh ooh'') Everybody's been there and
(''Ooh ooh'') I don't mean on vacation
(''Ooh ooh'') First born unicorn
(''Ooh ooh'') Hard core 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
(''Ooh ooh'')
(''Ooh ooh'')
(''Ooh ooh'') Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
(''Ooh ooh'') Sicker than the rest, there is no test
But this is what you're craving
(''Ooh ooh'') First born unicorn
(''Ooh ooh'') Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
| burdell (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Mar 02, 2011 - 13:57 This is a mediocre bar band at best. I don't get it. |
| run4more (The cave) | Posted: Mar 02, 2011 - 13:56 Well even if you like the song California haters are going to rate it low. I like it... I like calling all my old west coast friends Californicators |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Oct 11, 2008 - 11:14
californication!......this guys "make the bridge"......- ** 7 ** |
| EssexTex (Bee Cave, Texas) | Posted: Sep 10, 2008 - 09:50 I still love em...just finished "Scar Tissue" A.K's autobiography...I recommend it...it's a no holds barred corker! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 09, 2008 - 20:52 Great song from the last of the last millenium... |
| pierpod (Paris, France) | Posted: May 06, 2008 - 17:09 pierpod wrote: Ideal pour un soir de mai  |
| a_genuine_find (Nieuw Amsterdam) | Posted: May 06, 2008 - 17:00 Am Am Am Am 
Pay your..... F F F 
Am Am Am Am
F F F
Chorus: Am Am F
Am Am Am F 
C C G F Am
C C G F Am |
| Arianrhod | Posted: May 06, 2008 - 16:47 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication Grey Eye Glances - The Lost Coast One end of the state to the other...hmmm now all we need is a song about the high Sierras, the Mojave desert and the Central Valley |
| bokey (I'm up on the tightwire one sides ice and one is fire) | Posted: Feb 02, 2008 - 06:12 When did Tracey Chapman start singing for them? |
| MrDill (Lake Distict U.K.) | Posted: Feb 02, 2008 - 06:09 hmmm first time I heard this I thought it was a tribute to Ms Minogue dream of Kylie Fornication? " I'll close the door on the way out" |
| alanthecowboy (Lakefield) | Posted: Jan 01, 2008 - 19:14 rocco1207 wrote: how many songs can you write about California? I agree - these guys used to be funky - what happened?
They just got old. It happens when you've been doing it for as long as they have. Why just last night (new years eve) I found myself playing Ann Murray covers for a ridiculous amount of money. Happens to the best of us; (I mean the rest of us). |
| ilibjorn (San Antonio, TX (but on the move)) | Posted: Jan 01, 2008 - 19:09 shuttlecr wrote: Rough crowd here...!!!
 Nice song. Best song on the cd me think. 8 |
| kalkin84 (Sol, planet 3) | Posted: Dec 01, 2007 - 10:03 good band, aweful song. Most of thier newer work falls into this category. RobRyan wrote: I give it a 2 because there are worse songs, I have to save the 1 rating for those.
qft |
| starfishNcoffee (Brooklyn, NY) | Posted: Dec 01, 2007 - 09:47 Pretty good song. Deserves at least a 6, don't you think?  |
| RobRyan (Canyon Country, CA) | Posted: Sep 29, 2007 - 14:30 I give it a 2 because there are worse songs, I have to save the 1 rating for those. |
| shuttlecr (Houston, Texas) | Posted: Jul 28, 2007 - 17:27 Rough crowd here...!!! |
| xyphen | Posted: May 26, 2007 - 21:05 I hate this band, but this is one of two songs of theirs that I like. Overplayed, but better this than any of their other trash. |
| FlatCat (Chicago) | Posted: May 26, 2007 - 21:05 Decent song. Dumb pun. |
| Wizzuvvoz (middle of the road in the groin of America) | Posted: May 26, 2007 - 21:05 Hate this. Acknowledge, move on. |
| boblaker (Daniel Island, SC USA) | Posted: May 25, 2007 - 17:45 The only band that I rate so low- Bill, please save me from this tone imparied mush |
| TJOpootertoot (Toronto) | Posted: Apr 25, 2007 - 10:15 It gets a 2 for being another attempt at melody by one of the most tone deaf (if instrumentally skilled) bands in the history of rock. then it loses a point for being horribly overplayed. Sorry. |
| Wizzuvvoz (middle of the road in the groin of America) | Posted: Apr 25, 2007 - 10:10 FilmSurgeon wrote: What happened to these guys? They used to rock. Bring back the punkfunk! Totally agree. I think they are the only band with two "ones" from me. These "ballads" always make me long for "Organic anti-beat box band" (you just might slam. Dance that is)" |
| miguel1220 (Dayton, OH) | Posted: Apr 25, 2007 - 10:08 
love that bass line! thanks flea! |
| rocco1207 (the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat) | Posted: Apr 25, 2007 - 10:07 how many songs can you write about California? I agree - these guys used to be funky - what happened? |
| hippiechick (In the world but not of it) | Posted: Apr 25, 2007 - 10:06 Love these guys! |
| drover (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Mar 30, 2005 - 09:59 FilmSurgeon wrote: What happened to these guys? They used to rock. Bring back the punkfunk!
I don't really care for the direction RHCP took after Blood Sugar Sex Magik and haven't bought an album of theirs in over 10 years. But let's be realisitic -- you can only do the same approximate thing for so many albums before your act gets stale. At some point it's time for a band that does not intend to self-destruct to set a new path. andesitic wrote: come up with a really poor play on words (pun) add a mellow beat and people will eat it up. Not me, I am dieting.
Actually the word "Californication" existed long before RHCP thought of it. It's a word used in states near California that are experiencing an influx of erstwhile Californians who are getting the hell out but bringing with them the very same values that made California the basketcase they're fleeing from. A Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial said it best when they wrote (I'm paraphrasing here), "How would San Franciscans like it if a bunch of us Nevadans set up shop in Russian Hill and demanded the right to open up machine gun stores, casinos and brothels?" |
| timandjuliet (Lidsville) | Posted: Mar 30, 2005 - 09:55 FilmSurgeon wrote: What happened to these guys? They used to rock. Bring back the punkfunk!
Agree. Bloodsugarsexmagik rocked. It's been downhill from there. |
| keemun (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Dec 02, 2004 - 11:05 masterhead wrote: That is why you rated Samba pati a 1 and Don't give up a 3, right? I pity you and your little boring world... what, no cracks about the music I did like? maybe not as convenient. that I don't like the same music you like does not make my world either little or boring. good troll, though. |
| killahfunkadelic (Raleigh, NC) | Posted: Dec 02, 2004 - 11:00 Chilis are great---love this song. thanks for including it...somebody please upload "Cabron" to the playlist-- and yes, phenominal video. |
| FilmSurgeon (Los Angeles, CA) | Posted: Dec 02, 2004 - 10:58 What happened to these guys? They used to rock. Bring back the punkfunk! |
| lizardman_tcs | Posted: Nov 02, 2004 - 21:15 Always been one of my fav Chilis songs from my personal fav Chilis album. I'm really quite surprised at the negative comments here, seeing as I'm one of those fans who liked them after they went commercial. At the very least, I actually used this song to convert someone who previously hated RHCP because he hated "rap music". Now it's one of his fav songs. And might I also mention the kickass video that went with this song? |
| MuadDib | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:25 what a crock. - it's a horrible play on words anyway, and my mind goes numb wondering why RHCP would stoop to something like this. Isn't this the definition of "pop" music??? :P   |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell, Wyo.) | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:23 ksb wrote: ...difference between Northern and Southern California. The border being just north of San Luis Obispo, ...
Ah, poor Slotown. Nobody wants it. But most locals would like to be considered northern California. Maybe we can draw that line at Santa Maria. Actually, the dividing line betw. Northern and Southern California, if they were to break into separate states, would probably run sort of north/south starting at Vandenburg and running up toward Mono Lake. |
| masterhead (Sacramento, Ca) | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:23 keemun wrote: lord, but I despise this band. boring lyrics offering neither narrative nor insight, just junior high school students happy they could make words rhyme. music that's obnoxious for its own sake in an attempt to be "edgy". I wish they'd retire and go live out in the country making pottery. it might be as ugly as their music, but at least I wouldn't have to listen to it.
That is why you rated Samba pati a 1 and Don't give up a 3, right? I pity you and your little boring world... |
| rpm (Los Alamos, NM) | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:23 vvaffle wrote: I have to say that I'm a bit suprised that the rating for this song is so low. I agree that they are nothing special, but that doesn't mean that they are not nice to listen to. Either way, I think sometimes people vote a 1 or 10 rating in order to bring the song to a rating they think is right instead of just voting for what they actually think the song deserves. I say this because I don't believe that ANY song on RP deserves a 1 rating (well maybe a few do).
It doesn't make any sense to rate a song highest or lowest "just" to change the average if it is rated by more than 100 people or so. |
| misa | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:20 The Chili Pepers use to be good but now they f***king suck. Don't play their newer stuff play their old stuff. Thank you. :( |
| keemun | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:20 lord, but I despise this band. boring lyrics offering neither narrative nor insight, just junior high school students happy they could make words rhyme. music that's obnoxious for its own sake in an attempt to be "edgy". I wish they'd retire and go live out in the country making pottery. it might be as ugly as their music, but at least I wouldn't have to listen to it. |
| andesitic | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:16 come up with a really poor play on words (pun) add a mellow beat and people will eat it up. Not me, I am dieting. |
| masterhead (Sacramento, Ca) | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:16 maniko wrote: I would love to hear more from this band.
well you can time travel to late eighties and start buying all their albums, commercial and non-commercial their work it had been always outstanding. Great essential ROCK |
| zipper | Posted: Oct 04, 2004 - 14:14 ksb wrote: I'm compelled, in the midst of this sequence of Southern California themed songs, to point out, as a native of Northern California, that there is a significant cultural difference between Northern and Southern California. The border being just north of San Luis Obispo, I'll let you decide what that difference is. Please though, for the sake of us Northern Californians (who seem to be the ones who care), be aware that there is indeed a difference.
 What's it like in your little deluded world?
Oh, never mind. I see you've rated Neil Young's Like a Hurricane as a 2.  |
| vvaffle (New Jersey, USA) | Posted: Sep 19, 2004 - 19:20 I have to say that I'm a bit suprised that the rating for this song is so low. I agree that they are nothing special, but that doesn't mean that they are not nice to listen to. Either way, I think sometimes people vote a 1 or 10 rating in order to bring the song to a rating they think is right instead of just voting for what they actually think the song deserves. I say this because I don't believe that ANY song on RP deserves a 1 rating (well maybe a few do). |
| ksb (Oakland, CA) | Posted: Sep 19, 2004 - 19:15 I'm compelled, in the midst of this sequence of Southern California themed songs, to point out, as a native of Northern California, that there is a significant cultural difference between Northern and Southern California. The border being just north of San Luis Obispo, I'll let you decide what that difference is. Please though, for the sake of us Northern Californians (who seem to be the ones who care), be aware that there is indeed a difference. |
| Luthien | Posted: Aug 06, 2004 - 17:27 dlb108 wrote: I listen to RP to get away from this crap. But I guess if your an eclectic station you can play anything - even non-eclectic songs.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=+eclectic Just helping you mate, since you don't seem well-acquainted with the word. :) |
| mikael (Houston, TX) | Posted: Jun 13, 2004 - 11:26 I love the chili peppers |
| wxman (Bethesda, Maryland) | Posted: May 04, 2004 - 14:49 I do believe this may be one of the few bands that are actually better sober compared to what they were in their party days. That's open for debate obviously. |
| dlb108 | Posted: Feb 10, 2004 - 05:29 I listen to RP to get away from this crap. But I guess if your an eclectic station you can play anything - even non-eclectic songs. |
| rrowdies (in the depths of Eastern Ontario) | Posted: Jan 20, 2004 - 07:06 Boy, they must have been spent a couple of hours on this one. Was that guitar solo a first take? These guys have never done it for me especially since they discovered their formula for hit singles ie. slow tunes that showcase their weaknesses like really bad vocals. |
| BlueHeronDruid (New Joy Sea) | Posted: Jan 20, 2004 - 07:02 I don't remember thinking that this song was self-important or tiresome before, but I sure do now. |
| maniko (Budapest) | Posted: Aug 13, 2003 - 06:53 I would love to hear more from this band. |
| gandalfbmg (Liberty, MO) | Posted: Jul 16, 2003 - 09:25 Hey, any song with a nice little Star Wars reference is OK in my book. |