Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication: A Closer Look at the Lyrics

Yes, it's the Red Hot Chili Peppers song, Californication.

Twenty-five years have passed since they released the song, and billions of people have listened, including you. But did you listen to the lyrics carefully?

Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation. And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation. It's the edge of the world and all of Western civilization. The sun may rise in the East, at least it's settled in a final location.

Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging. Celebutant skin, is this your chin or is that war you're waging? Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

And 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 that praise control of population.

Everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation