Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers

1. Put the lines into the correct order:

a. Try to steal your mind's elation
b. It's Californication
c. Dream of silver screen quotations
d. Psychic spies from China
e. Little girls from Sweden
f. And if you want these kind of dreams

2. Complete the gaps with a/an/the/-

It's _____ edge of the world
And all of western civilization
_____ sun may rise in _____ East
At least it settles in _____ final location
It's understood that _____ Hollywood
sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very well

To break _____ spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that _____ war your waging

[Chorus:]
First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

3. Put the lines into the correct order:

a. Be my very own constellation
b. It's Californication
c. Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
d. A teenage bride with a baby inside
e. And buy me a star on the boulevard
f. Getting high on information

4. Match the sentences:

Space may be the final frontier
Cobain can you hear the spheres
And Alderon's not far away
Born and raised by those who praise
Everybody's been there
Control of population
Singing songs off station to station
And I don't mean on vacation
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
It's Californication

[Chorus]

5. Complete the gaps with a/an/the/-

Destruction leads to _____ very rough road
But it also _____ breeds creation
And earthquakes are to _____ girl's guitar
They're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save _____ world
From Californication

Pay your surgeon very well

To break _____ spell of aging
Sicker than the rest
There is no test
But this is what you're craving
1. What is this song about?
The song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood and the export of culture through the movie industry. The song
begins "Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation." Kiedis says in his book Scar Tissue that he got the
inspiration for the lyric from when he was in New Zealand and he heard a woman on the street ranting about there
being psychic spies in China. The track also makes references to topics such as pornography ("hardcore soft porn")
and plastic surgery ("pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging") and even some pop culture references
including Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain and David Bowie ("Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station
to Station?"), Star Wars ("and Alderaan's not far away"), and Star Trek ("Space may be the final frontier but it's
made in a Hollywood basement").
2. Have you ever dreamt to be a Hollywood star? What is your opinion about Hollywood?
3. Would you consider having a cosmetic surgery? Why (not)? If so, in which cases?
4. Why are cosmetic surgeries so popular in some countries, like the USA and Brazil, and not so popular in others, like
Japan and China?