Promises made promises broken,
a continuum as long as spring follows winter.
An inevitable sequence, a metal chain,
locking all pledges of honesty into a dishonest oath.
These loyal pledges will fail for both.
It may not be the promises broken,
instead the subject matter of the pledge.
If the adjuration for an honest pact
was a lifetime bond,
it may be here promises hold strong.
If there was a day
when becoming cross at a loved one
was the last breath spoken to them,
would you honor a promise to yourself
never to let that happen again.
One never knows the last time it will be,
causal callous words last spoken a tragedy.
Then all let’s make this promise together,
a pact that will be kept now and forever.
Words to one another will always have
respect, dignity and love, assuring this pact not broken,
never knowing it could be the last words spoken.
Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind’s elation
In time for the big election of the king of civilization
Why’d I have to win, I wanted retirement and a vacation
Well, time to go to Hollywood for an infinite adjuration
Give someone else the job ‘cause tomorrow there’ll be complications
Or give me the scepter anyway, it’s the rule of the automations
Pay the media well and they’ll see no psycho aging
The iron fist of freedom, interplanetary war-waging
Mothers will mourn
For their first-born
Dream of Californication…
Dream of Californication…
The public will look at me and they’ll see but pure adoration
Until the press drones break free and start publishing accusations
Then a trial with hanging jury and defamation
The strikers will face more than one silly altercation
While I find a spoon, dig out of jail, and set up a universe-nation
To replace the one destroyed, Hollywood’s Californication
Pay the media well and they’ll see no psycho aging
Extolling on your greatness and the love the world is craving
Mothers will mourn
For their first-born
Dream of Californication…
Dream of Californication…
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