[postlink]http://yesstube.blogspot.com/2011/08/led-zeppeling-going-to-california.html[/postlink]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreKfi5Pit4endofvid
[starttext] Going to California Lyrics
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 they’re all the same.
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 | As the children of the sun began to awake.
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 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.
This song is actually about one of the themes from the 1944 Archibald T. Higgs book, "Manslaughter Madhouse: "The Transition From Isolationism to Corporate Slavery of The Mind"
In the song, "California" represents a place far away. It is important to note that the singer never mentions where he is coming from. This is the essence of a modern social free-roam prison (America).
He may not even know where he is, but he knows where he wants to go. His life is blurry, but his dreams are clear. The singer fills the role of the waking spirit traveler, as described in so many books by Higgs and his contemporaries.
At the beginning of the song, the singer is entering the second spirit mind phase, the birth of the life center essence. Most people go their entire lives without ever reaching this stage. You could say that, as a newly awakened spirit, he is just beginning to wipe the sleep from his eyes. He still longs for shattered images of things he once believed in, but his spirit of adventure shines through.
In the second part of the song, the singer has reached the most critical part of his journey, where time and light become as one, dancing in a cascade of beauty and love. This period of a spirits travel is known as the communication. It is said to be the most beautiful thing the universe has to offer.
This is a song of hope. It tells the story of a man throwing of the shackles placed on him at birth in order to pursue his honest destiny.
As a personal note, I can only listen to this song once every year or two, because it's so powerful.
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