Going To California
from Amis Chemin by Geneviève Jodoin
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Simplement pour rendre hommage à mes frères et soeurs qui, par leur simple amour de la musique, en laissant traîner un disque de Led Zeppelin dans le sous-sol brun de mon enfance, ont tracé mon parcours. Plus tard, j’apprendrai qu’elle a été écrite en déclaration d’amour à Joni Mitchell par Jimmy Page & Robert Plant… Raison de plus!
lyrics
Spend my days with a man unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind, make a new start
Goin’ to California with an achin’ in my heart
Someone told me there’s a boy out there
With love in his eyes and flowers in his hands
Took my chances on a big jet-plane
Never let ‘em tell ya that they’re all the same
The sea was red and the sky was grey
I wonder how tomorrow could ever follow today
Mountains and the canyons start to tremble and shake
As children of the sun begin to awake / Watch out
It seems that the wrath of the gods
got a punch on the nose
And it’s startin’ to flow, I think I might be sinkin’
Throw me a line, if I reach it in time
I’ll meet you up there where the path
runs straight and high
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
Standin’ on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Tellin’ myself it’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind, make a new start
Goin’ to California with an achin’ in my heart
Someone told me there’s a boy out there
With love in his eyes and flowers in his hands
Took my chances on a big jet-plane
Never let ‘em tell ya that they’re all the same
The sea was red and the sky was grey
I wonder how tomorrow could ever follow today
Mountains and the canyons start to tremble and shake
As children of the sun begin to awake / Watch out
It seems that the wrath of the gods
got a punch on the nose
And it’s startin’ to flow, I think I might be sinkin’
Throw me a line, if I reach it in time
I’ll meet you up there where the path
runs straight and high
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
Standin’ on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Tellin’ myself it’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems
credits
from Amis Chemin,
released April 26, 2011
Paroles et musique : Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Arrangements : geneviève Jodoin / Simon Godin
Basse : Frédéric Boudreault
Piano : Nadine Turbide
Guitare : Simon Godin
Paroles et musique : Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Arrangements : geneviève Jodoin / Simon Godin
Basse : Frédéric Boudreault
Piano : Nadine Turbide
Guitare : Simon Godin
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Apr 2011 -
Mar 2009
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