All alone not by myself
Another girl bad for my health
I've seen it all through someone else
And I
(Another girl bad for my health)

I celebrated but undisturbed
And serenaded by the terror bird
It's seldom seen and it's never heard, oh
(Serenaded by the terror bird)

Never in the wrong time or wrong place
Desecration is the smile on my face
The love I made is the shape of my space
My face, my face

Disintegrated by the rising sun
A rolling black out of oblivion
And I'd like to think that I'm your number one
I'm
(Rolling black out of oblivion)

I wanna leave but I just get stuck
A broken record runnin' low on luck
There's heavy metal coming from your truck
And I'm a
(Broken record runnin' low on luck)

Never in the wrong time or wrong place
Desecration is the smile on my face
The love I made is the shape of my space
My face my face

We could all go down to Malibu and make some noise
Coca Cola doesn't do the justice she enjoys
We could all come up with something new to be destroyed
We could all go down

I love the feeling when it falls apart
I'm slow to finish but I'm quick to start
And beneath the heather lies the meadowlark
And I'm
(Slow to finish but I'm quick to start)

Never in the wrong time or wrong place
Desecration is the smile on my face
The love I made is the shape of my space
My face, my face

Never in the wrong time or wrong place
Desecration is the smile on my face
The love I made is the shape of my space
My face, my face, hey


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Desecration Smile Lyrics as written by John Anthony Frusciante Michael Balzary

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    I'd say it's about looking back on past failed romances.

    "All alone, not by myself" - The feeling that although you're "with" someone, you're still alone with that "girl bad for my health". "I've seen it all through someone else" - You've grown from those times, recalling those memories from your life can often seem like you were someone else back then.

    The "terror bird" for me, is that feeling when things are starting to go wrong, the terror of it falling apart.

    The chorus, especially "The love I made is the shape of my space", seems that despite failure the shape of your space or your life now is forged around love.

    "I love the feeling when it falls apart" - Relief at sadness is coming to an end. "I’m slow to finish but I’m quick to start" - Stubbornly refuse to let it finish, even after lighting the fuse of the relationship's end. "Beneath the heather lies the meadowlark" - Heather, grown in a wilderness where you're lost and alone after a relationship's end, but there's a meadowlark, there's life and hope - Another way of saying every cloud has a silver lining.

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