Stadium Arcadium

Album: Stadium Arcadium (2006)
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  • Bells around Saint Petersburg
    When I saw you

    I hope I get what you deserve
    And this is where I find

    Smoke surrounds your perfect face
    And I'm falling

    Pushing a broom out into space
    And this where I find the way

    The stadium arcadium
    A mirror to the moon (a mirror to the moon)
    Well I'm forming and I'm warning
    State of the art
    Until the clouds come crashing

    Stranger things have happened
    Both before and after noon (before and after noon)
    Well I'm forming and I'm warning
    Pushin' myself
    And no I don't mind asking
    Now

    Alone inside my forest room
    And it's storming

    I never thought I'd be in bloom
    But this is where I start

    Derelict days and the stereo plays
    For the all night crowd
    That it cannot phase
    And I'm calling

    Tedious weeds that the media breeds
    But the animal gets what the animal needs
    And I'm sorry

    The stadium arcadium
    A mirror to the moon (a mirror to the moon)
    Well I'm forming and I'm warning
    State of the art
    Until the clouds come crashing

    Stranger things have happened
    Both before and after noon (before and after noon)
    Well I'm forming and I'm warming
    Pushin' myself
    And no I don't mind asking
    Now

    And this is where I find

    Rays of dust that wrap around
    Your citizen

    Kind enough to disavow
    And this is where I stand

    The stadium arcadium
    A mirror to the moon (a mirror to the moon)
    Well I'm forming and I'm warning
    State of the art
    Until the clouds come crashing

    Stranger things have happened
    Both before and after noon (before and after noon)
    And I'm forming and I'm warning
    Pushin' myself
    And no I don't mind asking

    The stadium arcadium
    A mirror to the moon (a mirror to the moon)
    Well I'm forming and I'm warning
    State of the art
    Until the clouds come crashing

    Stranger things have happened
    Both before and after noon (before and after noon)
    Well I'm forming and I'm warning
    To you Writer/s: Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith, John Frusciante, Michael 'Flea' Balzary
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Genghischronic from OmahaI listened to this song for years, loved it, but had no idea what it meant. The other day I was talking to one of my besties and somehow made the revelation that our perception of reality is all fabricated from a series of reflections, obviously starting around the where to the sun did. A day or two later I make the connection from that revelation to the chrous in this song. I rushed to listen to the lyrics and it lined up perfect. Now being the skeptic that I am, I came here. Anthony's quote will forever had made my day, if not my next few days. He subliminally educated me about a significant realization in life if you're trying to make your coexistion optimal, and I got to jam out the whole time.
  • Mark from New York, NyJhon Frusciante went downhill fast. This is the only real fact as far as Stadium Arcadium goes.
  • Eddie Moran from Jupiter, AntarticaI think this song is about how the audience and the band connect with one another.
  • Mariah from Colorado Springs, CoThis song is obviously a very important and sybmolic song to the band, i mean they named the whole album after it...so it has to show some significance to the album, and I think it does. For me...it makes me think of space. Or people walking arround at night and looking at the moon "a mirror to the moon"
    This is a song kind of like Charlie becuase it leaves alot up to the imagimation. Just like "charlie" be anything you make it just like the "stadium arcadium" what I get from it is that the Stadium Ardadium can be whatever connects you to something bigger then yourself, like reflections from above "a mirror to the moon"
    For me...the "Stadium Arcadium" defines what music is to me becuase it connects us all to something bigger then ourselves
  • Zach from Carlsbad, CaThe X games uses this song and others from the CD in its commercials, and it is cool because I think it represents what they think a stadium arcadium is.
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