Back to California Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Nugan 

Cover art for Back to California lyrics by Wallflowers, The

I agree Stoolhardy. This one is pretty straightforward.

Of course, Dylan uses religious references ("Straightis the gate..") to turn California into a sort of substitute for an Eden-esque paradise, which makes the song a bit more transcendent than it originally appears.

(Some day I'm just going to count how many references there are to the Biblical Eden story in the Wallflowers' songs. There's a bunch of them.)