Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Band: The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Writer: Anthony Kiedis

Album: 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
in all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the East
At least it 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

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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
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

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Dream of Californication
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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

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Dream of Californication
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

californication = california + faunication.
nuf said.

Anonymous said...

my opinion, however, is that the writer is using the word "californication"
to refer to the impure, self-indulgent, materialistic lifestyles that we
live that are represented by America and "California". The song however
seems to force the listener to some sort of empathy because the writer seems
to blame all the evils of our present age upon this "californication" and,
it must be admitted, there are few people who would not have some personal
misgivings about som aspect of our "age".

Anonymous said...

oh. my. god. way to literature-ise it up there aimee...
IT'S ON!!!

Califorication speaks of the way in which American society is acting as a corrupting influence on the rest of the world.
It also speaks of the ease with which modern socity can be influenced, and controlled, by select groups of people, for something as simple as acceptance from the wider community.
Californication challenges the way that western societies function, showing that we live in a materialistic, shallow world where something like plastic surgery is considered a normal way for people to gain the acceptance their society has taught them to crave.

(take that aimee!)

Taylin said...

I like this song, and im not going to get all "literatury". i think its just trying to make a statement about how, as maddy said, the western civilistation is very materialistic. Like in the line "pay your Surgeon very well to break the spell of aging". Once upon a time there was nothing wrong with getting old, now that "calafornication" has come along, everyone feels that they have to be young forever to be loved or admired. Also that everything produced by the west is kinda fake, eg "space may be the final frontier but its made in a hollywood basement". The sad thing is its true, "little girls" dream of fame, i know i did (still do :P), and to get their "dream" they exploit themselves with their body, "teenage bride with a baby inside", "hard core soft porn", and then when their old they get thrown out of things. And then its emphasised that it can't be gotten rid of, this "all for me" attitude is kinda of embedded in our society, as "tidal waves couldn't save the world from californication".
But any way thats just my kinda morbid take on this song.

Anonymous said...

isnt califorication sex inside of a marriage with someone other that your partner like an affair?

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