We Turn Red

Album: The Getaway (2016)
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  • We got large and we got small
    We got a swimming pool and a cannon ball
    We turn red and we turn green
    It's the craziest thing I've ever seen

    Lost my mind 'cause I'm on the plastic
    Who knew it's so damn drastic
    Show me what it is you believe in
    Slowly she sinks all her teeth in
    Do you want to go fishing in New Orleans?
    Do you want to get up early in the morning?
    Take me to the river where we do the little storming
    Hallelujah, I feel it warming

    Sitting here I count the moons
    The orders we obeyed
    Every night 'fore we go to bed
    I watch while the others pray

    Send it off through Delaware just
    Make it fair for the legionnaires
    Paint a simple portrait of my kind
    Permission to the heartless bombs
    Gold Plated Hate and the waitress moms
    Serving up the stories of my mind

    Mexico, you are my neighbor
    Home of the let's be braver
    Give me all your sick and your tired
    Races that we admire
    Do you want to go dancing in Chicago?
    Trinidad's got it bad for Tobago
    Take me to the lake where we do the Avocado
    Hallelujah, a desparado

    Sitting here I count the moons
    The orders we obeyed
    Every night 'fore we go to bed
    I watch while the others pray

    Send it off through Delaware just
    Make it fair for the legionnaires
    Paint a simple portrait of my kind
    Permission to the heartless bombs
    Gold Plated Hate and the waitress moms
    Serving up the stories of my mind

    Coming down from the deserts where you
    Caught a glimpse of the billionaire
    Tell me I'm the right one for the ride
    Paper signs out on the lawns
    Gold minds and the priceless pawns
    Does your canyon really open wide?

    We got large and we got small
    We got a swimming pool and a cannon ball
    We turn red and we turn green
    It's the craziest thing I've ever seen Writer/s: Anthony Kiedis, Brian Joseph Burton, Chad Gaylord Smith, Josh Adam Klinghoffer, Michael Peter Balzary
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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