California

omg i love this song! i;m not really too sure what it's about though but to me it seems like he has moved away to california and his girlfriend is visiting him and she just doesn't fit in and feels alone out there.

I just had a thought that maybe its about how California is about as close to perfect you can get and he's tried to make this girl's life as perfect for her as he can but sometimes its still not enough?

I think you maybe right there finallyfree, i think its basically about long distant relationships.coping with being alone?? not sure

I don't think it's about long distant relationships (even when she surely it's only visiting him). I think it's about an old relationship that well, was dead from the start. I've got my personal interpretation of this song, being a Darren and Savage Garden's fan for quite a long time. I see it as a sequel to the SG's song "The Lover After Me", which was about moving out of the city (he moved to America in 1998) and accepting the fact of that separation from his then ex-wife, and how she moved on with her life but he was still stuck on her. In California, Darren talks about an old love he's glad to welcome, and an old wound that doesn't seem to ever heal. It looks like he's talking about the same person, but after some years (like 5, 6 maybe). It might be about someone else's (and not his former wife) though.

In any case, Darren managed to make me weep again with this song. He's not promising anything to this person (like in Truly Madly Deeply), he sees clearly how this person is NOT for him and viceversa...but what can he do about it? He loves her anyway..."even though he's no good for her" and even though he surely "deserves more"...he still wants HER.

How sad...how true...when you've always been aware of that...of how different you both are...but years go by and there is still an undeniable bond between the two of you. And you can't seem to move on. I've been in this situation that Darren describes for about six years now and it's so so hurting.

OMG I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!! and I LOVE DARREN!! he is such an extrovert, lol jus like me i wish he'd hurry up and release another album i cant get enuf of him

I completely agree with what Gabigs said. I think a lot of what Darren writes about in this song is very relateable. I know also that I've been in such a "relationship". I'm actually attempting to get over it right now. So not only is this song very beautiful, it's also very special and cathardic for me.

I'm attempting to get over it right now as well, Misseverus, I know how you feel like. To me it's like, when you think you're ready to move on, that person is always trying to hold you back, not realizing the pain that it brings to you. I wish you the best, and I hope we can both be strong about it.

Aww, the best to you as well Gabigs. I hope you don't mind, I added you to my MSN contact list.

such a sad song!! about not being good enough for someone, or thinking you aren't, and they have used you and left you.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Darren, I actually feel like his lyrics reach right down into my soul and touch me. I think this song is about his ex band mate from Savage Garden - they went their seperate ways and I believe it ended badly. I think he is saying that he was a big dreamer in the band and always wanted more fame, more recognition, but his old partner was happy with what they had hence him saying "all the world's never going to satisfy you" and that they are no good together and deserve better - but he still cares about him and misses him. He is welcoming him back into his life, and the "californian home" is a metephor for his perfect new life that he always wanted but that isn't so perfect after all.