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.
She want to move to California
She must've fucking lost her mind
She want to move to California
That's how they get you every time
She make a movie with her friends
Put it up in a minute
Everybody say it now ain't no loop at the minute
Everybody saying, "How, how you do it, you did it?"
I'ma show you what it done, but enough for a finish
Pay attention, you listen
You keep losing your mind
How you want to loop this shit but looking like a Vine?
But they no pay for no privilege, now she broke in Korea Town
In the condo you rented, better get your percentage
In California, oh
She must've fucking lost her mind, yeah
He want to move to California
He want to hang with DC Fly
All the people all around and the follower people
I go watching "ha ha" make girlfriend giggle
Make her feel so official, make it Serena Vista
Supernova, new residual, making money a little
Make smoker illegal, make living illegal
Make laughing illegal, make it snap for a people
When you make a movie now, know you making no difference
It's a tickle on the mind 'fore me finish the sentence
So go pimp a like on Vine, but don't pay for the privilege
Now you broke in Korea Town, in the condo you rented
Better get your percentage
Oh, you broke in Korea Town in that condo you rented
Better get your percentage
In California
She must've fucking lost her mind, yeah
He want to move to California
He want to hang with DC Fly
She must've fucking lost her mind
She want to move to California
That's how they get you every time
She make a movie with her friends
Put it up in a minute
Everybody say it now ain't no loop at the minute
Everybody saying, "How, how you do it, you did it?"
I'ma show you what it done, but enough for a finish
Pay attention, you listen
You keep losing your mind
How you want to loop this shit but looking like a Vine?
But they no pay for no privilege, now she broke in Korea Town
In the condo you rented, better get your percentage
In California, oh
She must've fucking lost her mind, yeah
He want to move to California
He want to hang with DC Fly
All the people all around and the follower people
I go watching "ha ha" make girlfriend giggle
Make her feel so official, make it Serena Vista
Supernova, new residual, making money a little
Make smoker illegal, make living illegal
Make laughing illegal, make it snap for a people
When you make a movie now, know you making no difference
It's a tickle on the mind 'fore me finish the sentence
So go pimp a like on Vine, but don't pay for the privilege
Now you broke in Korea Town, in the condo you rented
Better get your percentage
Oh, you broke in Korea Town in that condo you rented
Better get your percentage
In California
She must've fucking lost her mind, yeah
He want to move to California
He want to hang with DC Fly
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
California Lyrics as written by Ludwig Emil Tomas Goransson Donald Mckinley Ii Glover
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Love the song, but the lyrics are beyond me.
So this is what the kids are listening to these days? Its too meta for my liking
It's like he's rapping and singing at the same time