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Going to California - Led Zeppelin

Album: Led Zeppelin IV

genre: Folk

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
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.

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Robert Plant told "Spin" magazine in 2002 that "Going to California" is about: "Me reflecting on the first years of the group, when I was only about...20, and was struggling to find myself in the midst of all the craziness of California and the band and the groupies..."
Song details
  • Publishing: Atlantic Records
  • Co-Production: Jimmy Page
  • Recording: Headley Grange, Headley
  • Mix Engineering: Andy Johns
  • Composition: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
  • Release Date: 8 November 1971
"Going to California" it was at first a song about earthquakes.