Age Of Cancellation
We should be more frightened of online mobs than psychic spies from China. But hey, at least if we get cancelled, we'll know why!
"Age Of Cancellation"
Ostracized online by mobs of righteous indignation.
Dismissed into the void without defense or consolation.
A casualty of sophistry - the age of cancellation.
It’s the death sentence writ without the fuss of litigation
The plaintiff cries as the beast can feast on groveling - extorted prostration
The brotherhood of victimhood and endless cancellation…
Fear compels the ne’er-do-wells to posturing and staging,
Celebrities spin, confess your sin, the culture wars are raging!
Hate and public scorn,
New crowns of thorns
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
Voice your concern, you’re the next one to get burned, it’s a delicate conversation,
We now deride what our parents supplied, just misguided fornication
So Rock gets his scars when a fresh prince spars and Hart earns cancellation
Truth may seem the safest of speech, but it still needs a sanctification
And mutineers will disappear for a lack of authorization
And facts deface a safe space in the age of cancellation
Write afraid of new charades and lines of demarcation
Livings lost by pronouns or Chinese pronunciation
Hate and public scorn,
New crowns of thorns
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
An Op-ed’s script is a heretic’s crypt in a newsroom altercation
And classroom feuds stifle latitudes of several types of conjugation
And ivory towers cower in the age of cancellation
Disaffect in retrospect and raise your hands for waving,
Jefferson we shun with Washington, but who are we enslaving?
Hate and public scorn,
New crowns of thorns
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
In the age of cancellation
Written By: "Weird Ev" Coopersmith & AE Studio
"Californication"
Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams it's Californication
It's the edge of the world and all of Western civilization
The sun may rise in the East at least it's settled in a final location
It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication
Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin, is this your chin, or is that war you're waging?
First born unicorn
Hardcore soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Marry me, girl, be my fairy to the world, be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard, it's Californication
Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement
And Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station To Station?
And Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication
Born and raised by those who praise control of population
Well, everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation
First born unicorn
Hardcore soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Destruction leads to a very rough road but it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar, they're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world from Californication
Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest, there is no test, but this is what you're craving?
First born unicorn
Hardcore soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Written By: Red Hot Chili Peppers, June 1999
