Lyrics to
California

This version of California was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1978.

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How you doin’ out in California
Now that you’ve made the grade
Is there a chance you’d think of me
And all the things we made together

How you doin’ out in California
Now that you’ve got it made
You must be glad you made the break
But how I wish you’d stayed

Livin’ out in California
Seems to suit you well
But my news is all second hand
So it’s hard for me to tell

One day I’ll make it out to California
See if it’s what it seems
I’ve been there many times before
But only in my dreams

One day I’ll make it out to California
See if it’s what it seems
I’ve been there many times before
But only in my dreams

Oh it could be the money
It could be the sun
Something’s keeping you away from me
California know what you’ve done

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides California. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to California, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Some of the lyrics to California have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to California if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to California" means the words set to the music of California, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to California and the lyrics to California are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to California, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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