This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Well East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there
The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
Keep their boyfriends warm at night
I wish they all could be California (girls)
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls
The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a french bikini on Hawaii island
By a palm tree in the sand
I been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world
I wish they all could be California (girls)
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls
(I dig girls, girls, girls) I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
(I dig girls, girls, girls) I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there
The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
Keep their boyfriends warm at night
I wish they all could be California (girls)
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls
The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a french bikini on Hawaii island
By a palm tree in the sand
I been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world
I wish they all could be California (girls)
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls
(I dig girls, girls, girls) I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
(I dig girls, girls, girls) I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be California (yeah I dig girls, girls, girls)
I wish they all could be
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California Girls Lyrics as written by Michael Edward Love Brian Douglas Wilson
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