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Californication

Listen to the song 'Californication' by the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and complete the gaps missing in the lyrics below while listening. It really is quite amazing how something as everyday as listening to song lyrics can improve overall listening comprehension skills. If you're feeling particularly clever you could try and guess the missing words from their context before you listen!

Psychic spies from
Try to steal your elation
Little girls from
Dream of screen quotations
And if you want these kind of
It's Californication

It's the edge of the
And all of civilization
The sun may rise in the
At least it settles in a location
It's understood
Sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very
To break the spell aging
Celebrity skin is this your
Or is it you're waging

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Marry me girl be the fairy to my
Be my own constellation
A teenage bride with a inside
Getting on information
And buy me a on the boulevard
It's Californication

Space may be the frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood
And Cobain can you the spheres
Singing songs off to station
And Alderon's not away
It's Californication

Born and raised by who praise
Control population
Well, everybody's been
And I don't on vacation

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Destruction leads to a very rough
But it breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's
They are just another vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the
From Californication

Pay your surgeon very
To break the spell of
Sicker then the rest, there is no
But this is you're craving

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