Black California
Crush the innocent mind
Girl I ought to warn you
My reputation’s unkind
But you knew that anyway
Black California
Black California
Change your lives at the Speed Of Light
Show them fear and they’ll show you the knife
California tumbles into the sea
That’ll be the day I go back to Annandale
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
And Cobain, can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off Station to Station?
And Alderaan’s not far away; it’s Californication
It’s all un-in-tel-ligible
I just can’t get it through my skull
It’s hard to bargle nawdle zouss
With all these marbles in my mouth
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know, oh no
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know…
Well we don’t sound like Madonna
Here we are now, we’re Nirvana
Sing distinctly? We don’t wanna
Buy our album, we’re Nirvana
A garage band from Seattle
Well, it sure beats raising cattle
Yeah
We’re Knights of the Round Table
Our shows are for-mid-able
But many times, we’re given rhymes that are quite un-sing-able
We’re opera mad in Camelot
We sing from the diaphragm a lot
Way down among Brazilians,
Coffee beans grow by the billions,
So they’ve got to find those extra cups to fill.
They’ve got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.
I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, boy
It started when he was just a young boy
Coffee soon became his favorite toy
A cup in the morning began his day
Soon he was drinking coffee all day
Java junkie (Always has a cup of)
Java junkie (Never gets enough of)
Java junkie (Drinking coffee all day)
Java junkie
To a coffee god he prays
Lonely feeling deep inside
Find a corner where I can hide
Silent footsteps crowding me
Sudden darkness but I can see
No sugar tonight in my coffee
No sugar tonight in my tea
No sugar to stand beside me
No sugar to run with me
Well
Sugar in the mornin’
Sugar in the evenin’
Sugar at suppertime
Be my little sugar
And love me all the time
Honey in the mornin’
Honey in the evenin’
Honey at suppertime
So by my little honey
And love me all the time
Oh, sugar, I call my baby my sugar
I never may be my sugar, that’s why my baby is so
Confectionary, funny, she never pleads for my money
But when she feeds me on honey, she gets her needs every time
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way
"Kids are different today, " I hear every mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she’s not really ill, there’s a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of her mother’s little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
Well, the telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
The telephone is screaming
Won’t she leave me alone?
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone? Ahh
Well, every girl that I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Well, I hear my mother calling
But I don’t need her as a friend
Well, every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Oh, ohh, mother
Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s busy
Too busy to come to the phone”
Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s trying
To start a new life of her own”
Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s happy
So why don’t you leave her alone?”
And the operator says “forty cents more
For the next three minutes”
Diamond lights, lover boy
He move in space with minimum waste
And maximum joy
City lights, business nights
When you require streetcar desire
Or higher heights
No place for beginners or sensitive hearts
Sentiment is left to chance
No place to be ending, but somewhere to start
No need to ask, he’s a smooth operator
Operator
Give me information
Information
Give me long distance
Long distance
Give me Heaven
Oh, once in your life, you find someone
Who can turn your world around; bring you up when you’re feeling down
Now, nothing can change what you mean to me
Oh, there’s nothing I can say
Just hold me now, cuz our love will light the way
And baby, you’re all that I want
When you’re lying here in my arms
I’m finding it hard to believe we’re in Heaven
Love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn’t too hard to see we’re in Heaven
I think we’re alone now..
Doesn’t seem to be anyone around.
I hear the ticking of the clock
I’m lying here, the room’s pitch-dark
I wonder where you are tonight; no answer on the telephone
And the night goes by so very slow
Oh, I hope that it won’t end, though
Alone
Til now, I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
And now it chills me to the bone:
How do I get you alone?
How do I get you alone?