| Yellowcard – Back Home Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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So I've been at college for three years now, and I'm from the Gulf Coast. I've been to California considering my dad lives in San Clemente (Orange County.) I love California, I really do. I plan to move there after I graduate from college, but saying that this song doesn't really mean California is fake is wrong. When you're from places like Jacksonville, FL, Pensacola, FL, Mobile, AL, New Orleans, LA.. or really, just about anywhere else in the country. California is very fake. It's being actually very specific about California, or really the west coast vs the east coast. "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. |
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