In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Like a sinkhole
Like a sinkhole
Stars are born then fucking ate up in a day slow
What does it show?
What does it show?
C-c-cut off all the tethers to your lost soul
Think about a time on a dotted line
Venice Beach, cutthroats on the shoreline
It ain't a fucking crime
I'm taking back what's mine
Los Angeles, we on the front line
Click-click-boom
Let 'em fall
Lining 'em up with a semi-matic auto
Hear the call, hear the call
Hop in the whip to demonstrate that I'm out though
When I do it like this
With a wiffle ball bat
Surf's up, bitches, and it's like that
Hollywood coming to attack
I'm no shooting star
Just a burning heart
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
Running through the dark
Broken boulevards
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
Armageddon now, Armageddon now
Coked out skeletons come back down
Break 'em down, gotta break 'em down
Broke down Ford lights, sing so loud
The greatest story ever told
The greatest five ever known
Dead men walking
Audition for the big show
It's biblical
It's also cynical
In the land of make-believe, the situation's critical
Sink into the ocean like some martyrs at our pinnacle
Yeah, it's just a vision, but the waves are fucking literal
As above
So below
You wanna go to heaven, but you sold your soul
Dying young
I'm growing cold
Cut yourself apart, so you don't grow old
We're living in denial
But we're doing it in style
Out here in California, it's a trial by fire
I'm no shooting star
Just a burning heart
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
Running through the dark
Broken boulevards
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
Tension hidden in the question
Underneath the dreams I hold
I can see rejection in my own reflection
I can feel my dreams grow cold
Dreams grow cold
I'm no shooting star
Just a burning heart
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
Running through the dark
Broken boulevards
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
In California
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
In California
Like a sinkhole
Stars are born then fucking ate up in a day slow
What does it show?
What does it show?
C-c-cut off all the tethers to your lost soul
Think about a time on a dotted line
Venice Beach, cutthroats on the shoreline
It ain't a fucking crime
I'm taking back what's mine
Los Angeles, we on the front line
Click-click-boom
Let 'em fall
Lining 'em up with a semi-matic auto
Hear the call, hear the call
Hop in the whip to demonstrate that I'm out though
When I do it like this
With a wiffle ball bat
Surf's up, bitches, and it's like that
Hollywood coming to attack
I'm no shooting star
Just a burning heart
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
Running through the dark
Broken boulevards
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
Armageddon now, Armageddon now
Coked out skeletons come back down
Break 'em down, gotta break 'em down
Broke down Ford lights, sing so loud
The greatest story ever told
The greatest five ever known
Dead men walking
Audition for the big show
It's biblical
It's also cynical
In the land of make-believe, the situation's critical
Sink into the ocean like some martyrs at our pinnacle
Yeah, it's just a vision, but the waves are fucking literal
As above
So below
You wanna go to heaven, but you sold your soul
Dying young
I'm growing cold
Cut yourself apart, so you don't grow old
We're living in denial
But we're doing it in style
Out here in California, it's a trial by fire
I'm no shooting star
Just a burning heart
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
Running through the dark
Broken boulevards
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
Tension hidden in the question
Underneath the dreams I hold
I can see rejection in my own reflection
I can feel my dreams grow cold
Dreams grow cold
I'm no shooting star
Just a burning heart
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
Running through the dark
Broken boulevards
We never sleep
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
In California
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
In California, we're dreaming
In California
Lyrics submitted by jpihlblad, edited by SkullKrusher16
California Dreaming Lyrics as written by Dylan Alvarez Jorel Decker
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