Lyrics: RHCP - Greatest hits

1. Under The Bridge
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

Sometimes I feel like
I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel like
My only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

I drive on her streets 'cause
She's my companion
I walk through her hills 'cause
She knows who I am
She sees my good deeds and
She kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie

I don't ever wanna feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way

Yeah... Yeah, yeah...

It's hard to believe that
There's nobody out there
It's hard to believe
That I'm all alone
At least I have her love
The city she loves me
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

Yeah... Yeah, yeah...
Oh no, no no no, yeah yeah...
Love me, I say, yeah yeah...
One time

Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away

Yeah... Yeah, yeah...
Oh no, no no no, yeah yeah...
Way down I said, oh, yeah yeah...
Will I stay?

2. Give It Away
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

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
Then 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 wanna to be a miser
Confide with 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 now
I can't tell if I'm a king pin or a pauper

Greedy little people in a sea of distress
Keep your more to receive your less
Unimpressed by material excess
Love is free love me say "Hell yes"

Low brow but I rock a little know how
No time for the piggies or the hoosegow
Get smart get down with the powwow
Never been a better time than right now

Bob Marley poet and a prophet
Bob Marley taught me how to off it
Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it
Goodness me can't you see I'm gonna cought it?

Give it away Give it away Give it away now
Oh, oh yeah!
Give it away Give it away Give it away now
I can't tell if I'm a king pin or a pauper

Lucky me swimmin' in my ability
Dancin' down on life with agility
Come and drink it up from my fertility
Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility

My mom, I love her 'cause she loves me
Long gone are the times when she scrub me
Feelin' good, my brother gonna hug me
Drink up my juice, young love, chug-a-lug me

There's a river born to be a giver
Keep you warm, won't let you shiver
His heart is never gonna wither
Come on everybody time to deliver

Give it away Give it away Give it away now
I can't tell if I'm a king pin or a pauper

Give it away Give it away Give it away now

Give it away now

3. Californication
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

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

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 praise
Control of population everybody's been there and
I don't mean on vacation

Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's 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 you're craving

4. Scar Tissue
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

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...

5. Soul To Squeeze

I got a bad disease,
Up from my brain is where I bleed.
In sanity it seems,
Is got me by my soul to squeeze.
Well all the love from me,
With all these dying trees I scream.
The Angels in my dreams,
have turned to demons of greed,
That's me.

Where I go I just don't know,
I got to, got to, gotta take it slow.
When I find my piece of mind,
I'm gonna give you some of my good time.

Today loves smile on me,
It took away my pain, said please
All that you ride is free,
You gotta let it be,
Oh ya.

Where I go I just don't know,
I got to, gotta, gotta take it slow.
When I find my piece of mind,
I'm gonna give you some of my good time.

You're so polite indeed,
Well I got everything I need.
Oh make my days a breeze,
And take away my self destruction.

It's bitter baby,
And it's very sweet.
I'm on a rollercoaster,
but I'm on my feet.
Take me to the river,
Let me on your shore.
I be coming back baby,
I be coming back for more.

Doo doo doo doo dingle zing a dong bone,
ba-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong gone bad,
like an apple gift but i went out and never said my pleasures
I'm much better but I won't regret it never

Where I go I just dont't know,
I got to, got to, gotta take it slow.
When I find my piece of mind,
I'm gonna give you some of my good time.

Where I go I just don't know,
I might end up somewhere in Mexico.
When I find my piece of mind,
I'm gonna keep for the end of time!

6. Otherside
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

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

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

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

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

7. Suck My Kiss
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

Well, I'm sailin'
Yeah! Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Hit me

Should have been
Could have been
Would have been dead
If I didn't get the message
Goin' to my head
I am, what I am
Most motherfuckers
Don't give a damn
Aw, baby, think you can?
Be my girl, I'll be your man

Someone full of fun
Do me 'till I'm well done
Little Bo Peep
Cumin' from my stun gun
Beware, take care
Most motherfuckers
Have a cold ass stare
Aw, baby, please be there
Suck my kiss, cut me my share

Hit me you can't hurt me
Suck my kiss!
Kiss me please pervert me
Stick with this!
Is she talking dirty?
Give to me sweet sacred bliss
Your mouth was made to suck my kiss

Look at me
Can't you see
All I really want to be
Is free from a world
That hurts me
I need relief
Do you want me girl
To be your thief?
Aw, baby, just for you
I'd steal anything that you want me to

K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Chicka chicka dee
Do me like a banshee
Low brow, is how
Swimming in the sound
Of bow wow wow
Aw, baby, do me now
Do me here I do allow

Hit me you can't hurt me
Suck my kiss!
Kiss me please pervert me
Stick with this!
Is she gonna curtsy?
Give to me sweet sacred bliss
That mouth was made to...

Hit me you can't hurt me
Suck my kiss!
Kiss me please pervert me
Stick with this!
Is she talking dirty?
Give to me sweet sacred bliss
That mouth was made to suck my kiss

8. By The Way
(Flea/Frusciante/Kiedis/Smith)

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

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

9. Parallel Universe
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

Deep inside of a parallel universe
It's getting harder and harder
To tell what came first

Under water where thoughts can breathe Easily
Far away you were made in a sea
Just like me

Christ I'm a sidewinder I'm a
California King
I swear it's everywhere
It's everything

Staring straight up into the sky
Oh my my a solar system that fits
In your eye Microcosm

You could die but your never dead spider web
Take a look at the stars in
Your head fields of space kid

Psychic changes are born in your heart Entertain
A nervous breakthrough that makes us the same
Bless your heart girl

Kill the pressure it's raining on
Salty Cheeks
When you hear the beloved song
I am with you

10. Breaking The Girl
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

I am a man, cut from the know
Rarely do friends, come and then go
She was a girl, soft but estranged
We were the two, our lives rearranged
Feeling so good that day
A feeling of love that day

Twisting and turning
Your feelings are burning
You're breaking the girl
She meant you no harm
Think you're so clever
But now you must sever
You're breaking the girl
He loves no one else

Raised by my dad, girl of the day
He was my man, that was the way
She was the girl, left alone
Feeling the need, to make me her home
I don't know what, when or why
The twilight of love had arrived

11. My Friends
(Kiedis/Balzary/Navarro/Smith)

My friends are so depressed
I feel the question of your loneliness
Confide... 'cause I'll be on your side
You know I will, you know I will

Ex-girlfriend called me up
Alone and desperate on the prison phone
They want... to give her seven years
For being sad

Chorus :
I love all of you
Hurt by the cold
So hard and lonely too
When you don't know, yourself

My friends are so distressed
They're standing on the brink of emptiness
No words... I know of to express
This emptiness

Chorus

Imagine me taught by tragedy
Release is peace

I heard a little girl
And what she said was something beautiful
To give... your love no matter what
Is what she said

Chorus

12. Higher Ground
(Wonder)

People, keep on learnin'
Soldiers, keep on warrin'
World, keep on turnin'
'Cause it won't be too long

Powers, keep on lyin',
While your people, keep on dyin'
World, keep on turnin',
'Cause it won't be too long

I'm so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
Till I reach the highest ground

Teachers, keep on teachin'
Preachers, keep on preachin'
World, keep on turnin'
'Cause it won't be too long
Oh, no

Lovers, keep on lovin'
While believers, keep on believin'
Sleepers, just stop sleepin'
'Cause it won't be too long
Oh, no !

I'm so darn glad he let me try it again
'Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
Till I reach the highest ground

(Spoken) An' Stevie knows that, uh, no-body's gonna bring me down.
Till I reach the highest ground
(Spoken) 'Cause me 'n' Stevie, see, we're gonna be a sailin' on the funky sound
Till I reach the highest ground
(Spoken) Bustin' out, an I'll break you out, 'cause I'm sailin' on.
Till I reach the highest ground
(Spoken) Just, uh, sailin' on sailin' on the higher ground
Till I reach the highest ground

13. Universally Speaking
(Flea/Frusciante/Kiedis/Smith)

I saw your face
Elegant and tired
Cut up from the chase
Still I so admired
Bloodshot your smile
Delicate and wild
Give me she wolf style
Rip right thru me

[Pre-chorus]
Silveretta the jets of a lifetime
Go and get her ive got her on my mind
Nothing better then feeling is so fine
Simply put I saw love stream flow

[Chorus]
Come on baby 'cause 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 then love and service
Universally speaking
Win in the long run

I saw your crime
Dying to get high
Two of a kind
Beat all hands tonight

[Pre chorus]

[Chorus]

[Pre Chorus]

14. Road Trippin'
(Kiedis/Balzary/Frusciante/Smith)

Road trippin' with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It's time to leave this town
It's time to steal away
Let's go get lost
Anywhere in the U.S.A

Let's go get lost
Let's go get lost

Blue you sit so pretty
West of the one
Sparkles light with yellow icing
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun

These Smiling eyes are just a mirror for

So much as come before those battles lost and won
This life is shining more forever in the sun
Now let us check our heads
And let us check the surf
Staying high and dry's
More trouble than it's worth
In the sun

Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun

These Smiling eyes are just a mirror for

In Big Sur we take some time to linger on
We three hunky dory's got our snakefinger on
Now let us drink the stars
It's time to steal away
Let's got get lost
Right here in the U.S.A

These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
Your smiling eyes are just a mirror for

15. Fortune Faded
(Flea/Frusciante/Kiedis/Smith)

This ain't a test you gotta
Kill it, can you, yea you made it
Oh I, feel you

You take the time, I stop and miss
You'll think it�s not what they did

Ohhh, Ya�
Everytime I lose
Altitude

C'mon darlin' do I seem bulletproof

Set me down, there goes my elevator?
And all the while, my fortune faded
Nevermind, the consequences of
The wildest time, my fortune faded

To complicate the space you make
You find it's overrated
Oh I, feel you

To vacate the state of mind
You're so sedated
Ahh, now

Everytime I lose
Altitude

C'mon darlin' do I seem bulletproof

Set me down, there goes my elevator?
And all the while, my fortune faded
Nevermind, the consequences of
The wildest time, my fortune faded

16. Save The Population
(Flea/Frusciante/Kiedis/Smith)

History's so strong
History's so strong
History's so strong
History's so strong

Thinking of a drinking song the honkytonk will do
Making another breaking bone your favorite ingenue
This the distant dawn
This the distant dawn

I put my cards upon the table
I do the speakers 'cause I am able
One picks is broken-down devotion
I threw my pistol in the ocean
Eyes wide with revelation
Chime at the police station
And when the verdict comes round
I'm sure that you will go down

CHORUS:
Stay all night
we save the population
Stay all night
we save the population
Stay all night
we save the population
Stay all night
we save the population

(Instrumental Bridge)

Pistol end its fawn
Sell it to the lexicon
A pistol landed hard
Lot on bottom lines be drawn

Take another bottle down to proper lam the shrew
Make another awful sound to rap the gothic through
History's so strong
History's so strong

CHORUS x4

Lyrics: RHCP - Greatest hits

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