Road Trippin'

Album: Californication (1999)
Charted: 30
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  • 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
    Sparkle 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
    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 snake finger on
    Now let us drink the stars, it's time to steal away
    Let's go get lost right here in the U.S.A.
    Let's go get lost, let's go get lost
    Blue, you sit so pretty west of the one
    Sparkle 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
    These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
    Your smiling eyes are just a mirror for Writer/s: Anthony Kiedis, Chad Gaylord Smith, John Anthony Frusciante, Michael Peter Balzary
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

  • Boris from Marechal Rondon, BrazilA great song, into a great album!
  • Tello from Boston, Maawesome song; it is really peaceful and happy. great album.
  • Emma from San Deigo, Cathis song is so peaceful ,i love it!
  • Johnny from Los Angeles, CaI think the concept for this whole album is Los Angeles and Anthony's perspective of it. If you guys want a point by point analysis just post here that you do. I'm reading "Scar Tissue" (Anthony Kiedis' autobiography, but he had a ghostwriter).
  • Nikie from Stockholm, SwedenThe concept.. I've been trying to figure out that one, but.. Like "This life is shining more forever in the sun.." and "let us drink the stars" ..It's like they think they can do about anything, 'cause they're so "happy" and all, almost exaggerated, to convince themselves.. But then.. "Just a mirror for the sun, these smiling eyes are just a mirror for". They're really not happy even though they might look like they are on this roadtrip, pretending they're feeling so good..
    Anyways, I love this song.. It's really sad I think.
  • Johnny from Los Angeles, CaWhat's the concept? Anyway this song is great, one of RHCP best and most underrated.
  • Spencer from Equinunk, PaI totally agree, Patrick. It's one of the best albums of all time!
  • Patrick from Humboldt, IaCalifornication is definitely a concept album.
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