Mother’s Milk

+ Singles

Credits
Kristen Vigard - Vocals (bckgr)
Michael Beinhorn - Producer, Engineer
Vicki Calhoun - Vocals (bckgr)
Eddie DeLena - Engineer
Flea - Bass, Trumpet
John Frusciante - Guitar
Jack Irons - Drums
Dave Jerden - Mixing
Anthony Kiedis - Vocals, Cover Art Concept
Felix Pappalardi - Producer
Garth Richardson - Engineer
Jack Sherman - Vocals (bckgr)
Aklia Shin - Guitar, Paintings
Hillel Slovak - Drums
Chad Smith - Vocals (bckgr)
Merrill Ward - Cello
Dave Coleman - Trumpet
Patrick English - Vocals (bckgr)
Iris Parker - Art Direction, Design
Henry Marquez  - Vocals (bckgr)
Julie Ritter - Vocals (bckgr)
Gretchen Seager - Vocals (bckgr)
Peter Shea - Art Direction, Design
Nels Israelson - Photography
Bruno Deron - Vocals (bckgr)
Joel Virgel Viergel - Vocals (bckgr)
Wag - Vocals (bckgr)
Fish - Drums

 

Releases
1989	CD	EMI	E2-92152
1996	CD	Mobile Fidelity	683
1989	CS	EMI	E4-92152
1992	CD	EMI	93911
1989	CS	EMI	E4-93911
1989	CD	EMI	E2-93911

 All songs written by The Red Hot Chili Peppers except:
- "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder)
- "Fire" (Jimi Hendrix)
- "Stone Cold Bush" (with D.H. Peligro)
- "Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky" (with D.H. Peligro)
Produced by MICHAEL BEINHORN.
Mixed by DAVE JERDEN.
Engineered by GARTH "G-G-G-GARTHATRON" RICHARDSON.
Additional engineering by MICHAEL BEINHORN.

1. Good Time Boys

2. Higher Ground

3. Subway to Venus

4. Magic Johnson

5. Nobody Weird like Me

6. Knock Me Down

7. Taste the Pain

8. Stone Cold Bush

9. Fire

10. Pretty Little Ditty

11. Punk Rock Classic

12. Sexy Mexican Maid

13. Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky

GOOD TIME BOYS

Hey yeah!
Yo!
Oh, oh

Indeed it may seem that we have strange ways
But we do it with compassion and don't believe in age
Travel around the world gettin' naked on the stage
Bustin' people out of their everyday cage
We like to think we make a sad man happy
And we like to make proud our mammy and pappy

Funky young kings we sing of truth and soul
We're the modern day braves with one strong hold
Through the world of song our boldness is exposed
I'm talking about my buddy's funk it up Fishbone

Hay yeah!

Good, good time boys make me feel good
Give me good times yeah yeah yeah yeah
(x2)

Our devotion to emotion is more than evident
To the minds that are open it's you we represent
We hope you have enjoyed the time that you have spent
One day the good time boys might just be President
Like a pack of mad hatters who come from outer space
Our swinging's gonna shatter every stone cold face

Now you may not know the exact reason why
A band commands attention from the moutains and the sky
Making more that money more than money can buy
I stop and take a listen to the Monsters try

Good, good time boys make me feel good
Give me good times yeah yeah yeah yeah
(x2)

Wow!

If you don't believe me you can ask John Doe
Cause his heart is made of glory and his voice is made of gold
He'll tell you in a minute about the men he knows
He'll tell you about the band called Fire Hose
To those of you who doubt the nature of our spirit
We play it out loud for everyone to hear it

Building up our brains with the supernatural powers
We take it from the trees and the mighty watts towers
Aim the flame of freedom at the lames and sours
We're the best of the West and the West is ours

Good, good time boys make me feel good
Give me good times yeah yeah yeah yeah
(x4)

Rockinfreakapotamus, rockinfreakapotamus (x7)

written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989EMI-USA

HIGHER GROUND

People keep on learnin'
Soldiers keep on warrin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long

Powers keep on lyin'
While your people keep on dyin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long

I'm so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
Till I reach the highest ground

Teachers keep on teachin'
Preachers keep on preachin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long
Oh no

Lovers keep on lovin'
While believers keep on believin'
Sleepers just stop sleepin'
Cause it won't be too long
Oh no

I'm so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
Till I reach the highest ground

And Stevie knows that, uh, nobody's gonna bring me down
Till I reach the highest ground
Cause me and Stevie, see, we're gonna be sailin' on the fucking funky sound
Till I reach the highest ground
Bustin' out and I'll break you out,
Cause I'm sailin' on
Till I reach the highest ground
Just, uh, sailin' on sailin' on the higher ground
Till I reach the highest ground

written by Stevie Wonder

SUBWAY TO VENUS

Step right up and listen please
You're gonna get it with the greatest of ease
Well, everybody gather around all aboard the underground
You've got to get in before you get out
And gettin' out is what it's gonna be about
Well, If you find that you are blind
Open up your bashful mind
Let my band step inside
And take you on a cosmic ride
Let my band step inside
And take you on a cosmic ride
With honest sounds I'll paint your brain
For in this song I do proclaim
That once aboard this moving train
I'll do my best to ease your pain
Slinky as my speech may be
On this trip you'll ride for free
As we leave our trailer spots
Well, outer space is lots of dots
This axis bold as love you see comes and goes so easily
This axis bold as love you see comes and goes so easily

Space is king or so I sing, subway to Venus
Space is king or so I sing, subway to Venus

Once aboard and feeling smooth
Like a liquid you will ooze
Into a state of mind that soothes
Aw be my guest inside my groove
Cause what I've got to give to you
Is gonna make you wanna boogalulu
Is gonna make you wiggle like a wiggley worm
Cause you deserve to wiggle and squirm
Life's too short to be in a hole
So bust into your funkiest stroll
Life's too short to be in a hole
So bust into your funkiest stroll

Space is king or so I sing, subway to Venus
Space is king or so I sing, subway to Venus

Aw !
What I've got to give to you
Is gonna make you wanna boogalulu
Aw, make you wiggle like a wiggley worm
Cause you deserve to wiggle and squirm
Life's too short to be in a hole
So bust into your funkiest stroll
Well, take your body shake it around
And, do the dog on the ground
And if I can't make you dance
I guess I'll just have to make you piss your pants

Space is king or so I sing, subway to Venus (x3)
Space is king or - oh-oh - so I sing, subway to Venus

written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989EMI-USA

MAGIC JOHNSON

L.A. Lakers fast break makers
Kings of the court shake and bake all takers
Back to back is a bad ass fact
A claim that remains intact

M-A-G-I-C see you on the court
Buck has come to play his way and his way is to thwart
M-A-G-I-C magic of the buck
Other teams pray for dreams
But he don't give a fuck

Penetrating the lane like a bullet train
Comes the magic blood a telepathic brain
Knucklehead suckers better duck
When the buck comes through like a truck

Scott stops pops and drops it in
On his way back gets a little skin
From the hand of a man named A.C. Green
Slam so hard break your TV screen
Worthy's hot with his tomahawk
Take it to the hole make your mamma talk
I hate to burst your bubble but triple double trouble
Is coming to your town and he's going to make rubble

L.A. Lakers fast break makers
Kings of the court shake and bake all takers
Back to back is a bad ass fact
A claim that remains intact

M-A-G-I-C a sea of purple and gold
You can swim but you won't get far so you might as well go home
M-A-G-I-C in Buck we trust
Restoring order in the court and justice is a must

Lakers are the team that I watch on the telly
Cause they've got more moves
Than a bowl of jelly
The buck stops here, pops then cheers
A roar through the forum
That deafens my ears
The one and only know of his kind
Sits in a throne
Not for the records that he holds
But for being bald and bold

Kareem Abdul Jabbar
All time great supersuper star
I hate to burst your bubble but triple double trouble
Is coming to your town and he's gonna make rubble

Does anybody wants some Magic Johnson (x4)

L.A. Lakers fast break makers
Kings of the court shake and bake all takers
Back to back is a bad ass fact
A claim that remains intact

written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989EMI-USA

NOBODY WEIRD LIKE ME

Hum hum hum
Gonna eat you alive
Oooh !

The freakiest show I know is the show of my own
Living my life in and out of the twilight zone

Burst my britches
Bless my soul
I'm a freak of nature
Walking totem pole
Look and see I think you'll agree
Nobody weird like me

Oh, I love you
And you love me too

Intercourse with a porpoise is a dream for me
Hell bent on inventing a new species

Burst my britches
Bless my soul
I'm a freak of nature
Walking totem pole
Look and see I think you'll agree
Nobody weird like me

Aw aw aw aw!
Gonna eat you alive

Riding down the path on the back of a giraffe
Me and the giraffe laughed cause I passed some gas

Burst my britches
Bless my hole
I'm a freak of nature
Walking totem pole
Look and see I think you'll agree
Nobody weird like me

Aw aw aw aw !
I love you too
Hum, yeah, yeah,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah !

Enchanted as a rabbit that my life is a dream
Well everything is never just as it seems

Aw !
The freakiest show I know is the show of my own
Aw, living my life in and out of the twilight zone

Hey, yeah, you some freak !

Have a little dream we could live in the sky
A moutain on a dream gonna give it to you
Open my eyes to the very blue sky
The sky is high, our crew can fly
A monkey cannot fly cause he never gets why
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989EMI-USA

 

KNOCK ME DOWN

Never too soon to be through
Being cool too much too soon
Too much for me too much for you
You're gonna lose in time
Don't be afraid to show your friends
That you hurt inside, inside
Pain's part of life don't hide behind your false pride
It's a lie, your lie

If you see me getting mighty
If you see me getting high
Knock me down
I'm not bigger than life
(x2)

I'm tired of being intouchable
I'm not above the love
I'm part of you and you're part of me
Why did you go away
Finding what you're looking for can end up being
Being such a bore
I pray for you most everyday, my love's with you
Now fly away

If you see me getting mighty
If you see me getting high
Knock me down
I'm not bigger than life
(x2)

If you see me getting mighty
If you see me getting high
Knock me down
I'm not bigger than life
(x6)

It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself
It's so lonely
(x3)

written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989EMI-USA

TASTE THE PAIN

Flat on my back in a lonely sprawl
I stare at the ceiling because I cannot fall
Asleep tonight
No not at all

Headlights flash across my bedroom wall
Crying eyes open cause I cannot fall
In love with you
No not at all

Walk away and taste the pain
Come again some other day
Aren't you glad you weren't afraid
Funny how the price gets paid
(x2)

Busted in two like a brittle stick
I cannot drink because my throat constricts
Lovesick from you
That will never do

Open my mouth I couldn't make a sound
I could not sceam you know I could not shout
It out to you
Nothing to do

Walk away and taste the pain
Come again some other day
Aren't you glad you weren't afraid
Funny how the price gets paid
(x2)

Yeah, yeah !

This may come as a shocking surprise
I have to take a walk I have to kiss it goodbye
Goodbye my love
Goodbye my love
I am not alive

Walk away and taste the pain
Come again some other day
Aren't you glad you weren't afraid
Funny how the price gets paid
(x2)

Yeah, how the price gets paid
Well I, I, I, I, I, aw !
I've got to pay the price
I think I'll walk away
Everyday it is okay
If you want to play it again

I got to pay the price

written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989EMI-USA

STONE COLD BUSH

Ah yeah, yeah yeah yeah !

She's stone cold bush yeah
And baby that's alright
She's stone cold bush yeah
And that's alright with me
Get up off your knees
Come on walk with me
Tell me what you need to get along
A statue come to life
I cut you with my knife
Bleeding to the tune of Dolly Dagger

She's stone cold bush
She's stone cold bush

Ah yeah yeah yeah yeah !
Haight street got nothing to show
Except the shirt on your ass
When you're living in the streets you've got to let it roll
Get on with what you've got
Aw, everybody knows that its alright
You've got no secrets to tell
But when you smoke that rock and suck that cock
You do it all so well

She's stone cold bush
She's stone cold bush

Aw !
Bum bum bum bum bum !

She's stone cold bush yeah
And baby that's alright
She's stone cold bush yeah
And that's alright with me
She's got marble eyes
Sweet China doll her thighs
And animal in pain she starts to cry
Her pipes are open wide
She blows more than my mind
Echo sound of soul time after time

She's stone cold bush
She's stone cold bush

written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989EMI-USA

FIRE

Well alright
Now dig this

You don't care for me
I don't care about that
Lock down on a fool
I like it like that
I have only one burnin' desire
Come on let me get all over your fire

Let me stand next to your fire
Fire, fire, fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Fire, smoking fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Please start a fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Oh yeah

Ah, huh
Now listen to this baby
Stop acting so crazy

Say your mom ain't home
It ain't my concern
Girl don't play with me
And you won't get burned
I have only one burnin' desire
Girl let me do it in your fire

Let me stand next to your fire
Fire, smoking fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Oh do your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Please start a fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Oh yeah

Aw, move over Rover
And let Mr Huckleberry take over
You know he's bad
You know he jams
You know he gives it to you
Yeah !

That's right
Now dig this

You try to give me your money
You better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day
I have only one burnin' desire
Girl, let me get all over your fire

Let me stand next to your fire
Fire, smoking fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Please start a fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Oh do your fire
Let me stand next to your fire

You better slide your ass over girl
Cause I'm coming to you once
And I'm coming to you once real

Wow

Huh !

written by Jimi Hendrix

PRETTY LITTLE DITTY

PUNK ROCK CLASSIC

I'm a radio Joe of the biz called show
I'm a rockin' popstar with a get up and go
Rubbin' elbows with the big wigs at my sold out shows
I've been on the cover of every Rolling Stone

Put us on MTV
All we really need
Begging on our knees
Pease please please please please

Conforming to the norm straight out of the mold
Compromising each and every ounce of soul
I'm a doing anything for the records of gold
I only want what I can hold

Put us on MTV
All we really need
Begging on our knees
Pease please please please please

We know that we'll never be better than
Mister slick superstar David Litterman
I promise we'll be perfect gentlemen
Just put us on the show you'll regret us then

Put us on MTV
All we really need
Begging on our knees
Pease please please please please

Thank you very much be sure to label us
We wouldn't want to cause a ruckus or a fuss
Just put us in a category if it's a must
AOR, CHR, top forty, or bust

Put us on MTV
All we really need
Begging on our knees
Pease please please please please

Go Juanito !

What I am is a picture on the TV screen
Don't make waves don't make a scene
What I say when I play isn't worth a bean
I'm a video Joe in an industry

Put us on MTV
All we really need
Begging on our knees
Pease please please please pleasewritten by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989EMI-USA

 

SEXY MEXICAN MAID

Mm mm mm mm mm mm
Huh a-huh a-huh a-huh uh uh uh uh
Aw, yeah

Hair so smooth, black as coal
Aw baby the way you sway
You wear the dress so very blue
That you can take my blues away
She comes and goes that I know
She cums at least once a day
I can't resist I kiss your lips
You're my sexy mexican maid

She cum (x4)
Shattered please get on my knees
I come alone

When I wake up in the morn
She greets me where I lay
I look outside to find
That it's a bright and sunny day
So serene she gives to me my toast and marmelade
What more can I say
She's my sexy mexican maid

She cum (x4)
Shattered please get on my knees
I come alone

She puts me in a bubble bath
She tickles me and I laugh
She washes me until I'm clean
Then she does a little sexy dance
Happy to feel my hand go slap
Upon her sexy ass
We make fun so very slow
Then we make it very fast

She cum (x4)
Shattered please get on my knees
Aw, marry me

 

 

JOHNNY, KICK A HOLE IN THE SKY

Does that star-spangled banner yet wave

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I
I cry, I cry
I was born in a land
I don't think you understand
God damn what I am
I'm a native of this place
Please don't kick me in my face
My race has been disgraced

Pow pow !
Sing it again y'all!
Rap it !

Won't somebody testify
Kick a hole right in the sky
Testify, testify, kick a hole right in the sky
Slap a liar in his eye
Kick a hole right in the sky
Testify, testify, kick a hole right in the sky
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I
I wonder why, why
Put us in your pumpkin shell
Where you keep us very well
It's Hell, where I dwell
When history books are full of shit
I become the anarchist
I'm pissed at this
What this country claims to be
It's a lie, no place for me
I bleed

Pow pow !
Sing it again y'all!
Pow pow !

Won't somebody testify
Kick a hole right in the sky
Testify, testify, kick a hole right in the sky
Slap a liar in his eye
Kick a hole right in the sky
Testify, testify, kick a hole right in the sky
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I
I decide to defy
Kill my trust if you must
But in my blood there is a lust for life
That's right
Apache blood is in my heart
Thrashing through me like a shark
Crashing through the dark

Pow pow !
Sing it again y'all!
Slap it !

Won't somebody testify
Kick a hole right in the sky
Testify, testify, kick a hole right in the sky
Slap a liar in his eye
Kick a hole right in the sky
Testify, testify, kick a hole right in the sky
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I
I confide, confide
What am I supposed to do
I feel like I'm cut into
Confused by rules
Do these two cultures clash
Or am I living in the past
I ask
Please tell me fast

Pow pow !
Sing it again y'all!
Rap it !

Won't somebody testify
Kick a hole right in the sky
Testify, testify, kick a hole right in the sky
Slap a liar in his eye
Kick a hole right in the sky
Testify, testify, kick a hole right in the sky
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I
I, that's right
To what do I belong
And if I change will I be wrong
Be wrong, just wrong
I took my foot and kicked a hole in the sky
I proceeded to plead for fathers help me decide
A jagged flash of light struck me in the eye
I turned around and found that I was still alive
Snakes rise high from the purple black sky
The red cloud rains and the black horse rides
Then it dawned on me like the mornin' sun
I'm a part of two worlds and the mornin' comes
Glowing embers tend to remember when
The power that is peace was treated as a friend
I am a master of objection and I've got to take action
I'm a man
The animal man

+ Singles

Show Me Your Soul
(Transcribed by Skinny)

In a world that can be so insane
I don't think its very strange
For me to be in love with you
I want to know more than your brain

Into my life you were injected
Not something that I expected
Now I smile from your affection
We have made a soul connection
Just for whom does your bell toll
Don't be cold show me your soul

Sentimental gentlemen are not afraid
To show you when I am you
You're my best friend
Show me your soul

In a world that can be so insane
I don't think its very strange
For me to be in love with you
I want to know more than your brain

Yes I find you so appealing
When you show me how you're feeling
You my friend need not be kneeling
Open up and stop revealing
Trust in me, my heart is whole
I need to see
Show me your soul

Sentimental gentlemen are not afraid
To show you when I am you
You're my best friend
Show me your soul

In a world that can be so insane
I don't think its very strange
For me to be in love with you
I want to know more than your brain

Don't expect too much from me
Perfection is no test for me
Because the best I'll ever be
Im just like you, a human being
You won't offend, I need to know
Please my friend
Show me your soul

Sentimental gentlemen are not afraid
To show you when I am you
You're my best friend
Show me your soul

written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith ©1989 Moebetoblame Music BMI

Castles Made Of Sand (Live)

Down the street you can hear her scream
"You're a disgrace" as she slams the door
in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
All the neighbors start to gossip and drool
He cries "Oh girl, you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?"
Against the door he leans and start a scene
And his tears fall and burn the garden green

And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea
Eventually

Was an Indian brave who before he was ten
Played wargames in the woods with his Indian friends
And he built a dream that when he grew up
he would be a fearless warrior Indian chief
Many moons past and more the dream grew strong
Till tomorrow he would sing his first war song
And fight his first battle
But something went wrong
Surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night

And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea
Eventually...
Take it Johnny!

There was a young girl
Whose heart was a frown
Cause she was crippled for life
And she couldn't speak a sound
And she wished and prayed
that she could stop living
So she decided to die
She drew her wheelchair to the edge of the shore
And to her legs she smiled
"You won't hurt me no more"
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and
say
"Look a golden winged ship is passing my way"

And it didn't really have to stop
It just kept on going
And so castles made of sand
Slips into the sea
Eventually

written by Jimi Hendrix I