The new RHCP song, Poster Child, taken from the album Unlimited Love (to be released in April), is being released world wide- it seems to be going live around the world as countries hit midnight (so you might not be able to hear it yet depending on where you live). People in Australia and New Zealand were the first to be able to listen to it.

This is the best I can do with the lyrics! Not sure about ‘YOLO’ in the chorus but I can’t think of anything else that fits!

 

RHCP: Poster Child Lyrics

Melle Mel and Richard Hell were dancing at the Taco Bell

When someone heard a rebel yell, I think it was an infidel

Adam Ant and Robert Plant were centre of a sycophant

Used to buy Ulysses Grant to record at the Record Plant

Islamabad is on the nod, Havana at the riot squad

And if you want to be a Mod, you’ll have to meet me at the quad

 

You got the best of my loco

I’ll take the rest of your showboat

You got the best of my Yoko

I’ll take the rest of your YOLO?

 

Parliam?nt’s Atomic Dog, that hats were filling up a fog

We talk about th? life and death of everything he ever loved

The seventies were such a win, singing the Led Zeppelin

Lizzy lookin’ mighty thin, the Thompson’s had another twin

I thought I won the lottery, the numbers never thought of me

Ramones had a lobotomy, so spin me like a pottery

 

I will be your poster child

You know the world is ours for a little while

And then I will be your poster child tonight, ow

La-da-da-da, bum-bum-budum

 

A funky piece, the Sandinista!, me and minor Mona Lisa

Judas Priest has whipped the beast, the mother love was named Theresa

Bubble gum, a cup of soup, dirty dandy nanda? loop

A small banana in your hoop, and now I know the band is…

Bernie Mac and Caddyshack were dusty as the bric-a-brac

And if you ask me for the time, I tell you that the preacher’s back

 

You got the best of my loco

I’ll take the rest of your showboat

You got the best of my Yoko

I’ll take the rest of your YOLO?

 

Steve Miller and Duran Duran, the joker dancing in the sand

Van Morrison – the Astral Man – the festival of hurricanes

Speak of Chico and the Man, the silence of a certain lamb

Dixie Pops kick out the jam, a poncho full of contraband

Mary Queen was on the scene on every preteen magazine

The Motörhead and mystic queen, I must’ve needed Valvoline

 

I will be your poster child

You know the world is ours for a little while

And then I will be your poster child tonight

La-da-da-da, bum-bum-budum

 

 

You got me on this

But then I can’t get off

With no one else but you

You turn me on too

Well, then I can’t get up, ooh

For no one else but you

 

Cream magazine, a love supreme, the ballad of a Billie Jean

And now we know the Status Quo, but God would never save the queen

David Mushegain, Copenhagen, cop a ghost of Ronald Reagan

All I say was Flavor Flav the cosmic rays were power saving

And my fist double kissed a listed number purple

Mr Chubby Checker do the twist, and everyone’s a narcissist

 

You got the best of my loco

I’ll take the rest of your showboat

You got the best of my Yoko

I’ll take the rest of your YOLO?

 

The waterbed was takin’ meds, a beaver with the house of red… a pocket full of Talking Heads

MIA? is making paper planes, addiction to the ways of Janes

My stuff is made of purple rain, ten fingers in the lion’s mane

Giant squid, Karate Kid, Sid Vicious and the… we did

The planet that we must…

 

I will be your poster child

You know the world is ours for a little while

And then I will be your poster child tonight

 

I will be your poster child

You know the world is ours for a little while

And then I will be your poster child tonight

 

Thanks to Nicolette and everyone else who has helped fine-tune the lyrics!