Poster Child
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Melle Mel and Richard Hell were dancing at the Taco Bell When someone heard a rebel yell, I think it was an infidel Adam Ant and Robert Plant were center of a sycophant And used to buy Ulysses Grant to record at the Record Plant Islamabad is on the nod, Havana at the riot squad And if you want to be a Mod, you'll have to meet me at the quad You got the best of my loco I'll take the rest of your showboat You got the best of my Yoko I'll take the rest of your low note Parliament's Atomic Dog that hats were filling up with fog A talk about the life and death of every penny analog The seventies were such a win, singing the Led Zeppelin Lizzy lookin' mighty thin, the Thompson's had another twin I thought I won the lottery, the numbers never thought of me Ramones had a lobotomy, so spin me like a pottery I will be your poster child You know the world is ours for a little while And then I will be your poster child tonight, ow La da da da, bum bum ba dum A funky piece, the Sandinista, me and minor Mona Lisa Judas Priest has whipped the beast, the mother love was named Teresa Bubble gum, I come bazooka, dirty dandy nanda loop A smoke banana in your hookah, now I know the band Ruca Bernie Mac and Caddyshack were dusty as the bric-a-brac And if you ask me for the time, I'll tell you that the future's back You got the best of my loco I'll take the rest of your showboat You got the best of my Yoko I'll take the rest of your low note Steve Miller and Duran Duran, the Joker dancing in the sand Van Morrison, the Astral man, the festival of hurricanes Speak of Chico and the Man, the silence of a certain lamb MC5 kick out the jam, a poncho full of contraband Dairy Queen was on the scene on every preteen magazine The Motorhead and mystic queen, I must've needed Valvoline I will be your poster child You know the world is ours for a little while And then I will be your poster child tonight La da da da, bum bum ba dum You got me on this Well, then I can't get off With no one else but you You turn me on too Well, then I can't get up, ooh For no one else but you Creem magazine, A Love Supreme, the ballad of a Billie Jean And now we know the Status Quo, but God would never save the Queen Dave Mushegain, Copenhagen, copper goose of Ronald Reagan Dollar savers, Flavor Flav the cosmic moves are power saving And my fist a double kissed unlisted number purplemist The Chubby Checker do the twist, and everyone's a narcissist You got the best of my loco I'll take the rest of your showboat You got the best of my Yoko I'll take the rest of your low note The waterbed was takin' meds, a beaver with the house of red A fatty for the natty dread, a pocket full of Talking Heads M.I.A.'s making paper planes, addiction to the ways of Janes My stuff is made of purple rain, ten fingers in the lion's mane Giant squid, Karate Kid, Sid Vicious in the Katie-did The planet that we must forbid, the English speakers in Madrid I will be your poster child You know the world is ours for a little while And then I will be your poster child tonight La da da da, bum bum ba dum I will be your poster child You know the world is ours for a little while And then I will be your poster child tonight La da da da, bum bum ba dum
Become A Better Singer In Only 30 Days, With Easy Video Lessons!
Written by: Anthony Kiedis, Chad Gaylord Smith, John Anthony Frusciante, Michael Peter Balzary
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