22 Jul2025

[RHCP] Californication

Written by hasnun. Posted in Chords

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INTRO
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VERSE 1
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Psychic spies from China  
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Try to steal your mind’s elation  
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Little girls from Sweden  
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Dream of silver screen quotations  
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And if you want these kind of  
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dreams  
 
 
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It’s 
 
 
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Californication  
INTERLUDE
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VERSE 2
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It’s the edge of the world  
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And all of western civilization  
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The sun may rise in the East  
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At least it settled in a final location  
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It’s understood that  
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Hollywood  
 
 
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sells 
 
 
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Californication  
INTERLUDE
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Fmaj7 
 
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PRE-CHORUS 1
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Pay your surgeon very well  
 
 
Fmaj7 
To break the spell of aging  
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Celebrity skin, is this your chin?  
 
 
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Or is that war you’re waging?  
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First born uni
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corn  
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Hardcore soft  
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porn  
CHORUS
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Dream of  
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Californica
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Dream of  
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Californica
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Dream of  
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Californica
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Dream of  
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Californica
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INTERLUDE
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VERSE 3
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Marry me girl, be my fairy to the world  
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Be my very own constellation  
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A teenage bride with a baby inside  
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Getting high on information  
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And buy me a star on the  
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boulevard  
 
 
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It’s 
 
 
Dm 
Californication  
INTERLUDE
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VERSE 4
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Space may be the final frontier  
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But it’s made in a Hollywood basement  
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And Cobain can you hear the spheres  
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Singing songs off station to station?  
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And Alderaan’s not far a
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way  
 
 
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It’s 
 
 
Dm 
Californication  
INTERLUDE
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Fmaj7 
 
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Ooooo – ooooh Oooo – ooooh
PRE-CHORUS 2
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Born and raised by those who praise  
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Control of population  
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Everybody’s been there and  
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I don’t mean on vacation  
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First born uni
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corn  
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Hardcore soft  
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porn  
CHORUS
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Dream of  
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Californica
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Dream of  
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Californica
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Dream of  
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Californica
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Dream of  
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Californica
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SOLO
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INTERLUDE
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VERSE 5
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Destruction leads to a very rough road  
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But it also breeds creation  
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And earthquakes are to a girl’s guitar  
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They’re just another good vibration  
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And tidal waves couldn’t  
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save the world  
 
 
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From 
 
 
Dm 
Californication  
INTERLUDE
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Fmaj7 
 
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Ooooo – ooooh Oooo – ooooh
PRE-CHORUS 3
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Pay your surgeon very well  
Fmaj7 
To break the spell of aging  
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Sicker than the rest, there is no test  
Fmaj7 
But this is what you’re craving  
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First born uni
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corn  
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Hardcore soft  
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porn  
CHORUS
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Dream of  
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Californica
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Dream of  
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Californica
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Californica
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Californica
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