The lengthy (nearly nine minutes) song is divided into three parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MG6rKuCfyo

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Peep the lyrics aqui!

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The guitar riff played here is intentionally identical to the iconic riff from “Can’t Stop”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOdWSiyWoc

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The chorus guitar effect is used here to parody RHCP’s own heavy use of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcN12uVHeQ

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This is specifically referencing the Target in Glendale being better than the Hollywood Target because it has a shopping cart escalator.

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Arguably the most hilarious part of the song, the bridge riffs on RHCP vocalist Anthony Kiedis' own explicitly sexual lyrics. Similar lines to these are seen on “Sir Psycho Sexy”:

Standing there with my hard on bleedin'
Theres a devil in my dick and some demons in my semen
Booty looking too good not to beAnnotate squeezin'
Creamy beaver hotter than a fever

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Nonsense lyrics that connect the major theme of the song: Burbank and Glendale are both cities in SoCal. “Abracadabralifornia” is a parody of the band’s own coined portmanteau, “Californication”. The gibberish used here is also a parody of the gibberish sang in “Soul to Squeeze

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The rhyme scheme is meant to parody a similar one in “Dani California”:

In Alabama she was swinging hammer
Price you gotta pay when you break the panorama

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Variation of “motha fucka” commonly used in funk music, either for censorship purposes or, in this case, to match the rhyme scheme of the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v5vrfPcavc

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