New Insight on "Back Home"

Since I have been working on the paper, I have uncovered some more evidence in Yellowcard's "Back Home" to use in my paper. For example, I realized the lyrics "Sometimes I wish that it would rain here, and wash away the west coast dreaming from my eyes, there's nothing real for them to see here," pretty much sums up much of what this song is trying to accomplish. First of all, the point of this song is to let people back home on the East Coast know that life in California is not as glamorous as it looks in movies or on television. With this verse, Yellowcard is describing the fact that California is beautiful on the outside, but is really fake and shallow underneath. The band expresses their wish for rain, which would hopefully alert people to reality and sincerity, which life in California certainly is not. All in all, the subject of this song is that fact that life in California, even when you have "made it" like Yellowcard, is not something to be sought after. California is certainly not the utopia that everyone thinks it is.