About a hundred years ago now,
Thought I was left for dead.
Soliloquy, she was my
A picture, a wake,
My metaphoric friend.

So then I fell in love with an irony named life,
It taught me this from that and
A picture, a wake, you're gonna be Hilikus.

History has a tendency
To block yout the popular beliefs
About the leaders of the time,
So glisten with my syllables and
Ponder the thought,
Maybe they should have
Had to dedicate more to it, go!
You've got to be,
So good to be,
You've got to be Hilikus!

So I took a walk out side
With my new found friend and the knowledge imbibe.
I figured I'd find another
With the same attitude,
Yes, then maybe I could talk
To someone other than myself!

The doors are swinging wide open,
A positive attitude and the ilk in my pocket
Had a lot to do with my new found friend,
The Hilikus.

History has a tendency
To block out the popular beliefs
About the leaders of the time,
So glisten with my syllables and
Ponder the thought,
Maybe they should have had to dedicate more to it, go!

You've got to be,
So good to be,
You've got to be
Hilikus



Lyrics submitted by Idan

Track duration: 03:56

"Hilikus" as written by Gavin Koppel, Brandon Charles Boyd, Michael Aaron Einziger, Alex Katunich, Jose Anthony Pasillas Ii

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:Hate to break it to everyone who thinks Hilikus is a pseudonym for High - Like - Us but it isn't. Hilikus means crazy or insane. Brandon even said that's what it means. I'm not saying the song still doesn't have anything to do with drugs (because let's face it you do crazy ass shit on some drugs)
    Flag Hilikus15on June 05, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I had a pipe named Hilikus once... man I love Incubus, old school, modern. Whatever it is those dudes are fucking talented. Great musicians man.
    Flag Bobby428on June 28, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Zetsumei... you claim you are a musician but you look down upon drugs. Please name one GOOD band that has stayed away from them. For most rock bands drugs have had a positive influence (i.e This album)
    Flag Cryptfiendon July 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Win!
    Flag xHilikuson January 23, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:...but the ending only shows hints of segue 1, which to me is fucking great...
    Flag necrophageon February 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i prefer the fungus amongus version, but that may be because thats what i am used to.. i just think that the adition of samples to songs that were already great on their own, took away from them...with that being said the hidden track on enjoy incubus version is pretty cool... I dont know why they discredit fungus... so much, i mean with just the guitar solos alone , they are insane. and I don't really see a problem at all with sounding similar to early mr. bungle. ok i am rambling....
    Flag necrophageon February 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i wounder who's got the biggest dick outta the band....
    hmmm probably Jose
    he seems like the type?
    Flag Hilichrison November 28, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Lol Did you guys know Hilikus also means crazy/nuts? Lol I wanted to see the slang word on dictionary.com and this is what came up!

    Main Entry: hilikus
    Part of Speech: n
    Definition: crazy, nuts
    Usage: used in "you've got to be hilikus"; slang
    Flag hilikus619on November 27, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:"see i think drugs have done some good things, i really do. and if u dont believe drugs have done good things for us do me a favor, go home and take all your records and all your tapes and all your cds and burn them. Because you know what? The musicians who made all that great music which has inhanced your lives over the years; rrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs."
    Bill Hicks
    fuck yeah brother
    Flag its_a_mad_worldon November 12, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Just to set the record straight, Incubus isn't a big fan of their high school album. At least they weren't a while after Make Yourself came out. Odds are they're even less of a fan. (I cite an Australian TV show interview. A fan is like, "Fungus Amongus rocks," and Brandon goes, "Ohhhh..." He looks at Mike "No comment...")

    Fungus Amongus is just a crazy trippy album by a bunch of high schoolers with a shitload of potential. Hell, I'd love to meet someone who could slap like Dirk did on this album. And one of Mike's solo's is berserk, I forget which. It's hard to picture some high schoolers doing this. As a musician now it's a bit scary trying to compete with it.
    Flag Zetsumeion September 21, 2007   Link

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