Californication – Red Hot Chilly Peppers

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[VERSE I] Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
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Psychic spies from China Be my very own constellation
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Try to steal your mind's elation A teenage bride with a baby inside
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Little girls from Sweden Getting high on information
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Dream of silver screen quotations And buy me a star on the boulevard
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And if you want these kind of dreams It's Californication
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It's Californication
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[VERSE II] Space may be the final frontier
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It's the edge of the world But it's made in a Hollywood basement
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And all of western civilization Cobain can you hear the spheres
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The sun may rise in the East Singing songs off station to station?
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At least it settles in the final location And Alderon's not far away
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It's understood that Hollywood It's Californication
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sells Californication
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[PRE-CHORUS II]
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[PRE-CHORUS I] Born and raised by those who praise
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Pay your surgeon very well Control of population
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To break the spell of aging Everybody's been there and
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Celebrity skin, is this your chin? I don't mean on vacation
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Or is that war your waging? First born unicorn
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First born unicorn Hardcore soft porn
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Hardcore soft porn
[CHORUS]
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[CHORUS] Dream of Californication
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Dream of Californication Dream of Californication
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Dream of Californication Dream of Californication
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Dream of Californication
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[VERSE V]
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Destruction leads to a very rough road
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But it also breeds creation
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And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
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They're just another good vibration
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And tidal waves couldn't save the world
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From Californication
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[PRE-CHORUS III]
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Pay your surgeon very well
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To break the spell of aging
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Sicker than the rest there is no test
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But this is what you're craving
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First born unicorn
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Hardcore soft porn

[CHORUS]
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Dream of Californication
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Dream of Californication
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Dream of Californication
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Dream of Californication