Red Hot Chili Peppers

last updated:7/11/02


Give it away


What I've got you've got to give it to your mamma
What I've got you've got to give it to your pappa
What I've got you've got to give it to your daughter
You do a little dance and then you drink a little water


What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
Reeling with the feeling don't stop continue


Realize I don't want to be a miser
Confide w/sly you'll be the wiser
Young blood is the lovin' upriser
How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser


Give it away give it away give it away give it away
now x 3 (chorus)


I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper


Around the World


All around the world
We could make time
Rompin’ and a stompin’
’Cause I’m in my prime
Born in the north
And sworn to entertain ya
’Cause I’m down for
The state of Pennsylvania


I try not to whine
But I must warn ya
’Bout the girls
From California


Alabama baby
Said hallelujah
Good god girl
I wish I knew ya


I know I know for sure
That life is beautiful around the world
I know I know it’s you
You say hello and then I say I do


Come back baby
’Cause I’d like to say
I’ve been around the world
Back from Bombay


Fox hole love
Pie in your face
Living in and out
Of a big fat suitcase


Bonafide ride
Step aside my Johnson
Yes I could
In the woods of Wisconsin


Wake up the cake
It’s a lake she’s kissin’ me
As they do when
When they do in Sicily


I know I know for sure


That life is beautiful around the world
I know I know it’s you
You say hello and then I say I do


Where you want to go
Who you want to be
What you want to do
Just come with me


I saw God
And I saw the fountains
You and me girl
Sittin’ in the Swiss mountains


Me Oh My O
Me and Guy O
Freer than a bird
’Cause we’re rockin’ Ohio


Around the world
I feel dutiful
Take a wife
’Cause life is beautiful


I know I know for sure
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I know I know it’s you
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Mother Russia do not suffer
I know you’re bold enough
I’ve been around the world
And I have seen your love
I know I know it’s you


You say hello then I say I do


Scar Tissue


Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
Push me up against the wall
Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra
Fallin’ all over myself
To lick your heart and taste your health ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...


Blood loss in a bathroom stall
Southern girl with a scarlet drawl
Wave good-bye to ma and pa ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view


Soft spoken with a broken jaw
Step outside but not to brawl
Autumn’s sweet we call it fall
I’ll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...


Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share


This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...


Otherside


Chorus:
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever


I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I've got to take it on the otherside


Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I've got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on


Chorus


Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray's full and I'm spillin' my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I've got to take it on the otherside


Scarlet starlet and she's in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
I've got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on


Chorus


Turn me on take me for a hard ride
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that
It's not my friend
I tear it down I tear it down
And then it's born again


Chorus


How long I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever


Californication


Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your minds 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 the 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 your raging


Chorus: 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
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon's not far away
It's Californication


Born and raised by those who pray
Control of population everybody's been there and
I don't mean on vacation


Chorus


Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girls 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 your craving


Chorus


By The Way


Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for
Dani the girl
is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee... overload


Steak Knife Caro Shark
Con Job Boot Cut


Skin that flick
She's such a little DJ
Get there quick
By street but not the freeway
turn that trick
to make a little leeway
Beat that nic
But not the way that we play


Dog Town Blood Bath
Rib Cage Soft Tail


Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for


Black Jack Dope Dick
Pawn Shop Quick Pick


Kiss that Dyke
I know you want to hold one
Not on strike
But I'm about to bowl one
Bite that mic
I know you never stole one
Girls that like
A story so I told one


Song Bird Main Line
Cash Back Hard top


Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for
Dani the girl
is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee... of her soul
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for


Chant


Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for
Dani the girl
is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee... of her soul
By the way I tried to say
I know you
Looking for
Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for


The Zephyr Song


Can I get your hand to write on
just a piece of leg to bite on
what a night to fly my kite on
do you want to flash a light on
take a look it's on display ... for you
coming down, no not today


Did you meet your fortune teller
get it off with no propeller
do it up it's on with Stella
what a way to finally smell her
picking up but not too strong ... for you
take a piece and pass it on


Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
and in this perfect weather
we'll find a place together
fly on... my wind


Rebel and liberator
find a way to be a skater
rev it up tp levitate her
super friendly aviator
take a look it's on display
for you ... coming down no not today


chorus
In the water where I center my emorion
all the world can pass me by
fly away on my Zephyr
we'll find a place together


Chorus
In the water where I center my emorion
all the world can pass me by
fly away on my Zephyr
we're going to live forever

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