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Don't know
What I was looking for
When I went home
I found me alone
And sometimes
I need someone to say you'll be all right
What's on your mind?
But the water's shallow here
And I am full of fear
And empty handed after two long years
Another sunny day in California
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But what they don't know is what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance to feel it
Back home
I always thought I wanted so much more
Now I'm not too sure
Cause sometimes
I miss knowing someone's there for me
And feeling free
Free to stand beside
The ocean in moonlight
And light myself a smoke beneath the
Dark Atlantic sky
Another sunny day in California
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But what they don't know that what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance to feel it
Everybody here is living life in fear
Of falling out alive
Tearing lives apart and breaking lots of hearts
Just to pass the time
And the eyes get red in the back of your head
This place will make you blind
Put it all behind me and
I'll be just fine
Another sunny day beneath this cloudless sky
Sometimes I wish that it would rain here
And wash the west coast dreaming from my eyes
There's nothing real for them to see here
Another starry night in California
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But they don't know that what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance to feel it
What I was looking for
When I went home
I found me alone
And sometimes
I need someone to say you'll be all right
What's on your mind?
But the water's shallow here
And I am full of fear
And empty handed after two long years
Another sunny day in California
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But what they don't know is what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance to feel it
Back home
I always thought I wanted so much more
Now I'm not too sure
Cause sometimes
I miss knowing someone's there for me
And feeling free
Free to stand beside
The ocean in moonlight
And light myself a smoke beneath the
Dark Atlantic sky
Another sunny day in California
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But what they don't know that what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance to feel it
Everybody here is living life in fear
Of falling out alive
Tearing lives apart and breaking lots of hearts
Just to pass the time
And the eyes get red in the back of your head
This place will make you blind
Put it all behind me and
I'll be just fine
Another sunny day beneath this cloudless sky
Sometimes I wish that it would rain here
And wash the west coast dreaming from my eyes
There's nothing real for them to see here
Another starry night in California
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But they don't know that what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance to feel it
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"Free to light myself a smoke beneath the dark Atlantic sky."
I just went to California during Christmas break and a friend came with me who smokes. Everyone gave him completely hell, while here... you're left alone about it. That's absolutely true.
"Sometimes I wish that it would rain here."
I mean... how much more specific can you get?
"There's nothing real for them to see here."
That's true. That's because a lot of people go to places like L.A. and end up getting into drugs and alcohol and a party lifestyle because things aren't taken seriously out there like they are most places. Say what you want... but if you're actually from the area, you don't see what other people see looking in.
"The water's shallow here..."
"Everybody here is living life in fear of falling out of line. Tearing lives apart and breaking lots of hearts just to pass the time."
My dad talks about this all the time. How the people in Southern California are all looking out for themselves and forget to look out for their neighbors. He tells me all the time not to trust anyone I meet out there. And he's been out there for over 10 years now.
I think the song is just saying that you think this place is so great because it's idolized and it's where the entertainment business is located. Then you get there and realize that the people around you are mostly all full of shit and you have no real friends. It's beautiful and he recognizes that it is and that no one would disagree, but it doesn't seem real.
this is my first time posting something
kinda wierd but here i go
well one day we were watching a video in my U.S. history class
about irish immagrants which sometimes went to CA to make money
with me so far
ok
then they put an old folk song theat they played on the ride over here
and they said it "californ-i-a"
exactly like they say it in this song
and of course the dads were sometimes the only ones that could come
and then later they would send money to send the rest of the family over here
so when it says
"I'm sure back home they'd love to see it"
he's talking about the people back where he came from
that his family would love to be in the land of oppertunity
which was what people needed
and new place to start
but when it says
"But they don't know that what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance to feel it"
hes talking about how before he even was able to get start a new life
it was taken away
the line "There's nothing real for them to see here"
he was talking about his family and that he didnt want them to come from the home land
that he didnt want them to suffer like he did
and that everythign is fake here
when it says
"But the water's shallow here "
he is talking about how people in america didnt care much for anything
besides themselves and he had no one to talk to about his feelings
hence the lines,
"And sometimes I need someone to say, 'You'll be all right. What's on your mind?'"
and "Everybody here is living life in fear of falling out of line"
when he says
"Tearing lives apart and breaking lots of hearts just to pass the time"
hes talking about the people that owned buisnesses
that just fired people for the heck of it and because the next day they new they would have someone ready to work there
the line "And the eyes get red in the back of your head, this place will make you blind"
hes talking about how the U.S. has made him forget about all the other things in life
bcz he didnt have hope left after seeing a place like this
most ppl dont know that the US wasnt a pretty place in the past
and now-a-days it still inst very nice
when he says"And light myself a smoke"
it shows that its not in any modern time
but finaly i had problems with the first lines,
"Don't know what I was looking for when I went home, I found me alone"
and "I am full of fear, and empty handed after two long years"
he is saying that, well, that he waisted two years of his life going to America
and having to go home bcz he hated being alone and getting nowhere
so he went back home and he didnt know how his family would look at him
that he had failed at what he was suppose to do
I LOVE THIS SONG
i mean its amazing how each line is connected
this took me a long time to type
and im pretty sure that is the real meaning
its kinda wierd to but i mean in my class we went deep into the immagrants that came b4 WWI
and it matched the song completely
so thanxs for reading this
People live in one place, and they dream of a far-away place where everything seems so beautiful and perfect and they imagine that they'll be so happy there. Then they finally get there and miss their home. Not because one place is better than the other... it's because of an undescribable wanting and longing for the familiar.
It meant so much for me, specially last year when the love of my life was finishing high school and going to university and i wasnt going to see him again :(
and as my school was joining another, and i was like sooo pleased with my school, it was a pleasure to go to school, and i knew that with this new school joining us things wouldn't be the same, and i would have my love neither.
"But they don't know that what you love is ripped away before you get a chance to feel it"
gosh... that sentence meant so much for me, as i fell in love with a boy i was going to see for only like 2 months... it was really hard, i was extreamly in love with him...
and as im always like cheerful and smiling and everything, it's like they think im ok but i felt really bad when all this happened