Happiness Loves Company

Album: I'm With You (2011)
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  • Stop marching 'cause you think you shot to number one
    Counting days and skipping your stones into the sun
    Over age and under thumb, oh, does it weigh a ton?
    I'll be yours tonight
    Living the dream of a meteorite

    Stop jumping 'cause we got something to say, yeah
    Young lovers keep it pumping in the streets of L.A., yeah

    Short stroking doesn't fly, better to go for broke
    What you smoking? Mary Jane? And does it make you choke?
    Jumping the fence, riding the waves, oh, can you take a joke?
    I'll be yours today
    Living the dream with a capital K

    Stop jumping 'cause we got something to say, yeah
    Young lovers keep it pumping in the streets of L.A., yeah

    Tell me now, I'll tell you how
    Just show me where to send

    Make time for love and your happiness
    The mothers of invention are the best
    We all know and struggle with some loneliness
    A tender mess for everyone, I guess
    I guess

    Half-blinded, I'm reminded how to find the stairs
    Nickel and dimin', think, it's time to play some musical chairs
    Dirty laundry, what a quandary, ask her if she cares
    I'll be yours and more
    Better than ever, like never before

    Stop jumping 'cause we got something to say, yeah
    Young lovers keep it pumping in the streets of L.-

    Make time for love and your happiness
    The mothers of invention are the best
    We all know and struggle with some loneliness
    A tender mess for everyone, I guess
    I guess

    Sweet talking, as I'm walking through your part of town
    Never again will Johnny C. A Love Supreme be found
    Is it ever meant to be? And is it so profound?
    Is it you and me? A billion to one make history, a history

    Said, yeah, oh, yeah
    Said yeah, oh, yeah
    I said yeah, oh, yeah Writer/s: Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith, Josh Adam Klinghoffer, Michael Balzary
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Eloquentracer92 from Your LocationI don’t think Flea can play the pipe organ, Layton. Or the bassoon. Who knows, though. He’s probably playing both those instruments simultaneously right now.
  • Julio Benitez from La Paz, BoliviaIn "Happiness Loves Company", as Flea plays the piano, Josh Klinghoffer plays a 6-string bass guitar.
  • Layton from Paris, TxAwesome song. What's an instrument Flea can't play?
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