Like A California King

This is on whitelightning.org Art: "[It's about] me. It was written looking at me through a jaundice eye. I was poking fun at people who picked on us. There's a lot of tongue and cheek on this album that a lot of people don't pick up on." (Ticketmaster - 1997)

So yeah its what he imagines people are saying about him and Everclear but its not entirely serious

i think everyone can relate this to someone in their life thats been a prick and thought they were better than everybody else.

We are all our own worst critics. No one will ever be as critical of our work and our actions as we are. Doubt can seems to manifest itself into a voice always talking you down, that's what this song is about.

Well, I've also heard it's about Gavin..somethingorother (lead singer of Bush). Art doesn't like him for some reason (never did find out why) but yeah... it's about himself (Art) though.

when bush was on tour with everclear, everclear got a fruit basket from a fan, and bush didn't. gavin rosdale started freaking out and yelling at everyone, and basically being a dick. when everclear toured with no doubt, they told gwen what he did, and she in turn told gavin, and they ended up dating. (i think they're married now) but art didn't like him because of that fact. i'm going to go to a bush concert and give him a fruit basket, and say, "here. a fruit basket from an everclear fan"

So, I only found out recently that a "California King" is a size of mattress. I guess there could be some symbolism in burning an obscenely large bed or maybe the sound of the phrase just appeals to the idea of a sell out. This might have something to do with the album art on "Welcome to the Drama Club," though.

A California King is also a type of snake. Whether he's reerencing the bed size, or the snake, I don't know. But I don't care, because it's such an awesome freaking song.

Come on people, these speculations are amateur.

According to So Much For The Afterglow’s co-producer, Lars Fox, this song is aimed at the Portland’s local music scene’s hostile rejection of Everclear (specifically Art Alexakis’s efforts to breakthrough Everclear in the mainstream), written with two particularly notable members of said community Pete Krebs, lead vocalist, and guitarist of Hazel and Courtney Taylor-Taylor, lead vocalist and guitarist of the Dandy Warhols

True. But this song is actually about himself. Sort of like a little voice in his head pointing out all his faults. I can relate to that.

I heard this song was about Scott Weiland. Art Alexakis was disgusted with how he felt Weiland glorified heroin use to children.