Spent my days with a woman unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind to make a new start
Going To California with an aching in my heart
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

Took my chances on a big jet plane
Never let them tell you that we're all the same
Oh, the sea was red and the sky was grey
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
The children of the sun began to awake, watch out

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow
I think I might be sinking
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there
Where the path runs straight and high

To find a queen without a king
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings
La la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems, mmh oh

(Ahh, ahh, ahh)


Lyrics submitted by kevin, edited by Mellow_Harsher, giedre, LHGL

Going to California Lyrics as written by James Patrick Page Robert Anthony Plant

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    You Lord of the Rings people are nerds. Although LOTR was very poplular in the the 70's and many rock bands did write songs mentioning things in LOTR and Medievel Stories, they are just metaphors. And Led was also steeped in Mysticism, and LOTR is based off of Norwegien and Irish mythology. See the link? And the "flowers in her hair" reffers to a hippy girl, also in the 60's and 70's California was the land where everyone "wore flowers in their hair." Supposed to be a land of peace. And this song is about a man trying to find an impossible love in California.

    dhawkon March 10, 2008   Link

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