Credits
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Release date: July 9, 2002
Producer: Rick Rubin
Engineered and Mixed by: Jim Scott
Mastered by: Vlado Meller
Recorded at: Cello Studios and Chateau Maront; strings recorded at Warner Bros. Studios
Paintings, photos and art direction by: Julian Schnabel
All songs written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante & Chad Smith
© 2002 Moebetoblame Music (BMI)
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Mark Mann
© 2002 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
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play songshow lyricsplay video By The Way
Lyrics
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…overloadSteak knife card shark
Con job boot cutSkin 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 playDog town blood bath
Rib cage soft tailBlack jack dope dick
Pawn shop quick pickKiss 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 oneSong bird main line
Cash back hard top -
play songshow lyricsplay video Universally Speaking
Lyrics
I saw your face
Elegant and tired
Cut up from the chase
Still I so admired
Bloodshot your smile
Delicate and wild
Give me shewolf style
Rip right thru meSilveretta the jets of a lifetime
Go and get her I’ve got her on my mind
Nothing better the feeling is so fine
Simply put I saw your love stream flowCome on baby cause there’s no name for
Give it up and I got what I came for
Universally speaking
Take it back and you make me nervous
Nothing better than love and service
Universally speaking
Win in the long runI saw your crime
Dying to get high
Two of a kind
Beats all hands tonight -
play songshow lyrics This Is The Place
Lyrics
This is the place
Where all the junkies go
Where time gets fast
But everything gets slowCan I get some Vaseline
Step into a modern scene
Take a chance on that
Which seems to be
The making of a dreamI don’t want to do it
Like my Daddy did
I don’t want to give it
To my baby’s kidThis is my calling
I said my darling
Shocking, appalling
All I can do to you
Hammers are falling
I said my darling
Shocking, appalling
All I can do to youThis is the place
Where all the devils plead
Their case to take from you
What they needCan I isolate your gene
Can I kiss your dopamine
In a way I wonder
If she’s living in a magazineI don’t’ want to say it
If it isn’t so
I don’t want to weigh it
But I’ve got to knowThis is my calling…
I saw you out there yesterday
What did you want to say
A perfect piece of DNA
Caught in a flashing ray
I caught you out there in the fray
What did you want to say
A masterpiece of DNA
Caught in a flashing rayCan I smell your gasoline
Can I pet your wolverine
On the day my best friend died
I could not get my copper cleanI don’t want to take it up
With Little Joe
I don’t want to fake it
So I’ve got to goThis is my calling…
I’m a misfit
I’m born with all of it
The fucking ultimate
Of love inside the atom splitI’m in a flash ray
A mash of DNA
Another poppin’ Jay
Who thinks he’s got
Something to say -
play songshow lyrics Dosed
Lyrics
I got dosed by you
Closer than most to you
What am I supposed to do
Take it away I never had it anyway
Take it away and everything will be okayIn you a star is born
You cut a perfect form
Someone forever warm
Lay onWay upon the mountain where she died
All I ever wanted was your life
Deep inside the canyon I can’t hide
All I ever wanted was your lifeShow love with no remorse
Climb onto your seahorse
This ride is right on course
This is the way I wanted it to be with you
This is the way I knew that it would be with you -
play songshow lyrics Don't Forget Me
Lyrics
I’m an ocean in your bedroom
Make you feel warm
Make you want to re-assume
Now we know it all for sureI’m a dancehall dirty breakbeat
Make the snow fall
Up from underneath your feet
Not alone, I'll be there
Tell me when you want to goI’m a meth lab first rehab
Take it all off
And step inside the running cab
There’s a love that knows the wayI’m the rainbow in your jail cell
All the memories of
Everything you’ve ever smelled
Not alone, I’ll be there
Tell me when you want to goSideways falling
More will be revealed my friend
Don’t forget me I can’t hide it
Come again get excitedI’m an inbred and pothead
Two legs that you spread
Inside the tool shed
Now we know it all for sureI could show you
To the free field
Overcome and more
Will always be revealed
Not alone, I’ll be there
Tell me when you want to goDon't forget me I can't hide it
There's a match now let me light itI’m the bloodstain
On your shirtsleeve
Coming down and more are coming to believe
Now we know it all for sureMake the hair stand
Up on your arm
Teach you how to dance
Inside the funny farm
Not alone, I’ll be there
Tell me when you want to goI’ll be there and tell when you wanna go
Come again and tell you want to go
More will revealed my friend… -
play songshow lyricsplay video The Zephyr Song
Lyrics
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 its on display…for you
Coming down, no not todayDid you meet your fortune teller
Get it off with no propeller
Do it up its on with Stella
What a way to finally smell her
Pickin’ up but not too strong…for you
Take a piece and pass it onFly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We’ll find a place together
Fly on…my windRebel and a liberator
Find a way to be a skater
Rev it up to levitate her
Super friendly aviator
Take a look its on display
For you…comin’ down, no not todayIn the water where I center my emotion
All the world can pass me by
Fly away on my zephyr
We’ll find a place togetherIn the water where I center my emotion
All the world can pass me by
Fly away on my zephyr
We’re going to live forever -
play songshow lyricsplay video Can't Stop
Lyrics
Can't stop addicted to the shin dig
Cop top he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt the pistol that you pay for
This punk the feeling that you stay for
In time I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the west end
Knock out but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth is some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright I wonder what the wave meant
White heat is screaming in the jungle
Complete the motion if you stumble
Go ask the dust for any answers
Come back strong with 50 belly dancersThe world I love
The tears I drop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Ever wonder if it's all for you
The world I love
The trains I hop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Come and tell me when it's time toSweetheart is bleeding in the snowcone
So smart she's leading me to ozone
Music the great communicator
Use two sticks to make it in the nature
I'll get you into penetration
The gender of a generation
The birth of every other nation
Worth your weight the gold of meditation
This chapter's going to be a close one
Smoke rings I know your going to blow one
All on a spaceship persevering
Use my hands for everything but steering
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
Mop tops are happy when they feed you
J. Butterfly is in the treetop
Birds that blow the meaning into bebopWait a minute I'm passing out
Win or lose just like you
Far more shocking
Than anything I ever knew
How about you
Ten more reasons
Why I need somebody new just like you
Far more shocking than anything I ever knew
Right on cueCan't stop addicted to the shin dig
Cop top he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt the pistol that you pay for
This punk the feeling that you stay for
In time I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the west end
Knock out but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth is some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright I wonder what the wave meantKick start the golden generator
Sweet talk but don't intimidate her
Can't stop the gods from engineering
Feel no need for any interferingYour image in the dictionary
This life is more than ordinary
Can I get two maybe even three of these
Come from space
To teach you of the Pleiades
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
This life is more than just a read thru -
play songshow lyrics I Could Die For You
Lyrics
Something inside the cards
I know is right
Don’t want to live
Somebody else’s life
This is what I want to be
And this is what I give to you
Because I get it free
She smiles while I do my timeI could die for you
Oh this life I chooseI’m here to be your only go-between
To tell you of the sights
Eyes have seen
What I really want to do is
Turn it into motion
Beauty that I can’t abuse
You know that I’d use my senses to
You can see that
It’s only everywhere
I’d take it all and then
I’d find a way to shareCome along and go
Along with me
Wander with me yo
It’s all for freeI could die for you
Whatchu wanna do
Oh this life I chooseCome again and tell me
Where you want to go
What it means for me
To be with you alone
Close the door and
No one has to know
How we areCome along and go
Along with me
Wander with me yo
It’s all for freeI could die for you
Whatchu want to do
Oh this life I choose -
play songshow lyrics Midnight
Lyrics
Things will never be the same
Still I’m awfully glad I came
Resonating in the shape of things to come
Never waiting when I know there’s only oneMessed it up but rest assured
No one ever thinks they’re cured
Just a minute while I reinvent myself
Make it up and then I take it off the shelfOver the laws of light
Over the moon by midnight
Let’s do it all this time
Everyone wishing well we goEveryone knows anything goes
We are the lotus kids
Better take note of this
For the storyThe rising moon is on the shine
The blood of Scorpio’s a nine
Like the fear that’s in the eyes of every doe
Say in now ‘cause John and Jane would like to knowIs it safe inside your head
Songs to serenade the dead
All along I said I know no enemies
Mix it up until there are no pedigreesEnter the rolling tide
Over the ocean so wide
Let’s do it all this time
Everyone wishing well we go -
play songshow lyrics Throw Away Your Television
Lyrics
Throw away your television
Time to make this clean decision
Master waits for its collision now
It’s a repeat of a story told
It’s a repeat and it’s getting oldThrow away your television
Make a break big intermission
Recreate your super vision now
It’s a repeat of a story told
It’s a repeat and it’s getting oldRenegades with fancy gauges
Slay the plague for it’s contagious
Pull the plug and take the stages
Throw away your television nowThrow away your television
Take the noose off your ambition
Reinvent your intuition now
It’s a repeat of a story told
It’s a repeat and it’s getting oldThrow away your television
Salivate to repetition
‘Leviate this ill condition now
It’s a repeat -
play songshow lyrics Cabron
Lyrics
Cabron cabron
Cabron cabronI see you in the park
You’re always wearing
Dodger blue
Mad doggin’ me and
Anyone from any other crewI am small but I am strong
I’ll get it on with you
If you want me to
What else can I doEveryone would take a cue
From anything you do
If you want them to
What else can they doI don’t want to fight
I want to get along with you
This time of night’s
For singin’ songs
About the local newsCabron cabron
Cabron cabronI’ll come around and make peace
Get down have a barbecue
Let’s keep the moon awake
And do electric boogilooI am small but I am strong
You see I’m just like you
If you only knew
That I’m just like youAll the world would
Take a cue from
Anything you do
If you only knew
That they’re just like youI don’t want to fight
I want to get along with you
This time of night’s
For singin’ songs
About the local newsCabron
What else can I do
If you want me to
Cause I’m just like you
If you only knewCabron
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play songshow lyrics Tear
Lyrics
This is my time
This is my tear
I can see clearly now
That this is not a place
For playing solitaire
Tell me where you want me
This is my time
This is my tearComin' on strong
Baudelaire
Seems to me like
All the world gets high
When you take a dare
Let it rise before you
This is my timeAll in all I'm
Loving every rise and fall
The sun will make and I will take
Breath to be sure of this
In the end
All will be forgiven when
Surrender rises high and I
Gave what I came to give
Say it now because you never knowDevil may cry devil may care
Distiller's got a scream
And now I know just why
When she's movin' air
Can you feel the voltage
This is my timeCalifornia skies
Got room to spare
This is my timeTake it outside
Take it out there
Seems to me like
All the world gets high
When you take a dare
In the final moment
This is my time -
play songshow lyrics On Mercury
Lyrics
I’ve got myself
In a masochistic hold
Why don’t you let go
Shake it off
Just to redirect my flow
Come on let’s goSit up straight
I’m on a double date
I’ve got to find my way
Into the light, heavy, middle weight
We don’t stop, rock around the clock
Motor mouthing off
In front of every other road blockCome again and tell me
What you’re going thru
Like a girl who only knew
Her child was dueMemories of everything
Of lemon trees on Mercury
Come to me with remedies
From five or six of seven seas
You always took me with a smile
When I was down
Memories of everything
That blew thruLooking up into
A reverse vertigo
What an undertow
Give it up
Another stubborn Scorpio
Come on, let’s goSit up straight
Come again
To the moon she gave
Another good review
Turn around and look at me
It’s really really you -
play songshow lyrics Minor Thing
Lyrics
I change the key from C to D
You see to me it’s just a minor thing
He knows everything
To readjust you’ve got to trust
That all the fuss is just a minor thing
He knows everything
It’d just a minor thing
And I’m a minor king
He knows everythingYou’ve got your bit part, Mozart
Hot dart acceleration
Pop art, pistol chasin’
Cat fight intimidationTo read a mind you’ve got to
Redefine the line to make your circle sing
He knows everything
You make a sound
The spell is bound to come around
It’s just a minor thing
He knows everything
It’s just a minor thing
And I’m a minor king
He knows everythingYou’ve got your…
All out interfacing
Black star motivation
Vampire sugar junkie
Data basin’ infiltration -
play songshow lyrics Warm Tape
Lyrics
Shiver for me girl
Deliver for me my darling
Pushin’ up to you
A river that runs right thru you
Swim for your smile
In a blue rock quarry
Make it for me baby
You won’t be sorry
Shiver for me now
Deliver for me my darlingMiles and miles of netherworlds I roam
Settle for love you’re never far from home
Carry me down into the waters of
Carry me down into the waters of love
Two of us were made of angels dust
I’ve been around
But not around enoughShadow my free form
A woman that I could keep warm
Quiver for me girl
Give me your head and shoulders
Shot from the pages of love and glory
Sleeping next to you and I’m in your story
Shadow my free form
A woman that I could keep warmLet’s go
I know, I make it for two
Intuitions only what you take from it
I know, I make if for two
You were there and I was fortunate
I know I make it for twoShiver for me now
Deliver for me my darling
A living that I could
Be giving to you my sweet love
Swim for your smile
In a blue rock quarry
Make it for me baby
You won’t be sorry
Shot from the pages of
Love and glory
Sleeping next to you
And I’m in your dreamSettle for love
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play songshow lyrics Venice Queen
Lyrics
Does it go from east to west
Body free and body less
Come again just to start afresh
Once again to find a home
In the moment of the meantimeDropping in coming through the mesh
Checking in just to get it blessed
Hard to leave when it’s picturesque
Find a form that’s free to roam
Where you come from
Where you goingDo it all then it all again
Make it up and you make a friend
Paddle on just around the bend
Find a place where you can see
All the mamas and the papasTake a chance on a recommend
Hard as hell just to comprehend
Disbelief that I do suspend
Easy now to find a breeze
Where you come from
Where you goingWe all want to tell her
Tell her that we love her
Venice gets a queen
Best I’ve ever seen
We all want to kiss her
Tell her that we miss her
Venice gets a queen
Best I’ve everI know you said you don’t believe
In God do you still disagree
Now that it’s time for you to leave
G*L*O*R*I*A
Is love my friendYour stylish mess of silver hair
A woman of your kind is rare
Your uniform returns to air
G*L*O*R*I*A
Is love my friendAnd now it’s time for you to go
You taught me most of what I know
Where would I be without you Glo
G*L*O*R*I*A
Is love my friendI see you standing by the sea
The waves you made will always be
A kiss goodbye before you leave
G*L*O*R*I*A
Is love my friend