California

..was reading a post on 'old favourites' on this blog ...and it featured 'Going to California' by good ol' Led Zep...reminded me of my (current) favourite 'California' number. Here goes Josh (Ritter) on the sunshine state:

Going out to California
Gonna let
the water warm my clothes
I’m alone
but I’m not lonely
Gonna trade
the weather for the Western coast
No don’t cry
I’ll be back
and I’ll bring the sun to shine
In your eyes
On your shoulders

Sunset Boulevard
will strip for money
Mulholland is a long drag
for the lonely hearts
Down along
the Imperial Valley
Runs a river
of homelessness and cinema stars

Don’t say
The trip’s been done
A hundred thousand times
Cause this one
Is mine

So I will work
at what work finds me
And I will take
what comfort I can get
I’ll be back
when I’m good and ready
California doesn’t seem to think
I’m ready yet
No don’t cry
I’ll be back
and I’ll Bring the sun to shine
In your eyes
On your shoulders

How *hopelessly* optimistic/forward-looking/shiny happy the youth is! ...maybe a case of the 'sunshine state' translating into the very being... ah well...