Uploaded August 2014 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago

---

© 1994 American Recordings

"Mascara" by John Frusciante from 'Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt,' available now.

Download 'Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt' on iTunes: bit.ly/NiandraLadesLP

Buy 'Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt' on CD format here: bit.ly/NiandraLadesCD

Buy 'Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt' on Cassette format here: bit.ly/NiandraLadesCassette

John Frusciante's new album, 'Enclosure,' is available now.

Buy 'Enclosure' on iTunes: bit.ly/1hhTWaU

Buy 'Enclosure' on CD format: bit.ly/EnclosureCD

Buy 'Enclosure' on vinyl format: bit.ly/EnclosureVinyl

Links:
Website: johnfrusciante.com
Facebook: facebook.com/Johnfrusciante
Twitter: twitter.com/johnfrusciante

"Mascara" Lyrics:

(Verse)
There's a bright red sun dripping through a porthole
In a set design,
Can you read your name?
It's been so long since we bloomed from the inside.

(Bridge)
So where have you been,
Since you fell off the flat edge
Of the world under an ugly sky?
You've been lying right
There, claiming you dance under the moonlight
To what you think is a song but is the flesh and
Blood of a dismembered groin that's been bleeding
Tears for thousands of your years.

(Pre-Chorus 1)
You fell like history in your thighs,
You're the one that makes me realize.

(Chorus 1)
Big water flowing through to tomorrow,
Apples and cake must have been your stake,
Your little duck house.

(Pre-Chorus 2)
You're hidden by your wooden legs,
Stay here in down at the world's edge.

(Chorus 2)
Down by the whirlpool,
'Finally realized you must have
Bitten your snake, you little duck.

(Outro)
I've been insane, well the time is slow,
The pope don't matter when the pawn
Is your sea, don't you agree?
When you're around, I'm wound 'round your thumb,
You wanna be numb, inside the gun;
All your billboards in lights are one big fight,
Against the baby inside,that you've mistaken for pain!

-------------------------------------------------------------------

[Second Voice]

(Pre-Chorus 1)
You get four red candles,
On the table with your penis by your eyes.

(Chorus 1)
Through to your addiction,
'Had to force you to drink a gallon of wine,
But the smile you send in my direction

(Pre-Chorus 2)
Makes me feel like I'm alive,
You're my kind, you're my kind,
You always make me feel
Like the moon is in my life, all the time.

(Chorus 2)
It always makes me feel good to know you're alive,
Your wrapping your ties.

(Outro)
Yeah, I've been glued to a society, made you,
I'll make a ceiling, so you can't feel sunshine
And if you see me roaming the hillside,
Won't you come along? It's a hard road,
To the top of yourself,
You'll always be alone, I like you in my life,
It's like a plague-out while
'Feels good just to know I can love someone like you,
But I'll make it hard for you choose,
I can understand why when you see the tears coming,
You should close your eyes, to you I'm sure it's no surprise
That I could be one of the dead, thank God my underwear's full
Of lead without you, without you.