Lyrics for Californication as interpreted by The Marine

Californication Lyrics
Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your mind elation
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations
And if you want these kind of dreams
Its 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 your waging

First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Cailfornication

Marry me, girl, be the 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

First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Cailfornication

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 sugeon very well
To break the signs of aging
Sicker then the rest
There is no test
But this is what you’re craving

First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Cailfornication

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beefchip
12-12-2001

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soodamncold
01-05-2002

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awesome song

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luv linkin p!!
03-18-2002

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great song. lyrics dont make much sence though. i just got the tabs and now i gots ta figure out how 2 play it.

i luv u chris l.!!!

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gizelle369
03-26-2002

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whats not to understand about the lyrics? they make sense... californication is the 'deteriation of society' so to speak... plastic surgery, teen pregnancy... and so on....

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fortis
04-12-2002

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if you dont know what the lyrics mean you dont deservve to know how to play the song on ur guitar


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frusciante
04-12-2002

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i agree with gizelle. the song is about the so-called "decline of western civilization". Superficialness. Insecurity. Boob jobs, lol. The whole nine yards. It's a song about Hollywood and how extremely plastic it is.

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uncgurl
04-17-2002

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whoa whats californication? call me guilible, but someone told me once that californication is having sex and then killing your partner...im thinking thats wrong...and yeah it makes sense when u put deterioration of society into it between talking about kurt cobain and teenage pregnancy and porn and all that

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GummiBrsRYummy
04-27-2002

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fornication is having sex with someone other than your husband/wife. they put "cali" in front of that to stand for CA. like frusciante said, it's about how plastic hollywood is. it's an awesome song!

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KrazyKyle15
04-27-2002

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I think it talks about all the coruption and insecurity of Hollywood and how all the stuck up and rich are corrupting people. They talk about how this is leading to the destruction of the youth.

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Yodi
05-04-2002

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I also think this song is about the decline of western civilazation but I also think its about how california culture has spread thourghout the world and has become the mainstrem culture.

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sapphireskies
05-06-2002

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yeah, it's about how this materialistic culture that used to be so foreign and simply "california style" is now mainstream - it's not just isolated greed - it's everywhere. it's taking over.

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I And I
05-14-2002

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How come David Bowie's song "Station To Station" is mentioned in the song, and what is Alderon?

"Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon’s not far away
It’s Californication"

???

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FrankDahmer
05-15-2002

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What the hell is Kurt doing in the record?

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AmazinglyChaotic
05-15-2002

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Isn't Alderon a place? No idea off the top of my head where.
And references are throughout this song

~*Amazingly Chaotic*~

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Calculator Jose
05-15-2002

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this song is a shallow self-parody
the whole theme is
"oh, california is this very deceptive place; it's bright on the outside and a really dark place on the inside."
not as well written as you may think
OK song!

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Lem
05-17-2002

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To clarify, Alderaan is the name of a planet in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Remember the one that got blown up by the Death Star? I think it was where Leia was brought up. And yes, I agree with everyone else on the meaning ofthe song, the Peppers are telling everyone what hollywood is really like, and that despite the expensive special effects, ie.plastic surgery and Space: The Final Frontier, all the fascinating beauty is just cosmetic, covering up the greed, vanity, drug lust and hunger for power.

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jimmyfoth
05-19-2002

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a lot

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Dread Girl
05-23-2002

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I agree with everyone. Its about the corruption of society. Its a GREAT SONG!!!!

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logan_6969
05-23-2002

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its cool how they can find so many words that ryme with californication

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DEBBIE LOVES ROCK
05-28-2002

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Great song. I think that it californication is a good thing, to me anyway,

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pot
05-29-2002

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of course that have sense, anthony said its talks bout the shits of hollywood. that hollywood is not just the movies, it's the underground of society. He wrote cause he konws, cause he is an actor too as he's father.

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GodHatesACoward
05-29-2002

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Nirvana toured with RHCP in their early years, and i think that Kiedis mentions Kurt Cobain and "songs off station to station" to represent how any meaning or emotion or passion or relevence in Nirvana's songs has been bastardized by the way they've kind of been commercialised against their will.
Just a thought...

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Lusyphur
05-29-2002

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i can't remember her name right off, but this song is about a model/actress in the 40's and 50's who came to california from sweden. she did fine for a few years and was pretty popular, but she got into drugs heavily and eventually died. the references to cobain are probably relating her story to his.

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pot
05-29-2002

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I mean the shits "It’s understood that Hollywood
Sells Californication", californication its mean like flea said all the shits of L.A

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GodHatesACoward
05-29-2002

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is the model\actress Frances Farmer? she was an actress in tha 40's who was a manic depressive and ended up in an insane asylum. Nirvana wrote a song about her (Frances FArmer will have her revenge on Seattle)

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