SONATA ARCTICA - California

Taken off the album "Clear Cold Beyond" (March 8th, 2024)
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Front-man Tony Kakko adds, "This is a song about persons who think that it's possible and okay to charm and have any and all people for themselves - use and lose - and who don't care about the amount of pain and broken hearts left behind. And now you're the target, but you know better and make sure that this will not happen until 'California falls into the sea,' what I've come to understand is impossible and will never happen, at least in the sense of science fiction. Simply put: The track deals with self-protection. If you're strong enough, you can of course give such persons a serving of their own poison what can be satisfying."

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Music & Lyrics: Tony Kakko
Mikko Karmila at Finnvox Studios
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers West

Video credit: Jarkko Piipari @mediapiipari
Additional footage by Tony Kakko and Timo Kauppinen @timokauppinenmusic

SONATA ARCTICA is:
Tony Kakko - Vocals & Keyboard
Elias Viljanen - Guitar
Pasi Kauppinen - Bass
Tommy Portimo - Drums
Henrik Klingenberg - Keyboard

Lyrics:
So, you think you now have found yourself a game
With smiles and lies you climb the walls
To every heart, far apart
The seer’s thousand faces share a name
A thousand tales, unfolding now within a day, everywhere

Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love’s a game, a chore
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I’m yours on the day when

California falls into the sea
The birds know the way and fly away, if one day
California falls into the sea
You’ll never find the way, the key
To lock me down, I’m free

Now, as you have failed to hear me out, again
Made deaf by your own open mouth…
I think it’s only fair I live my life
Enjoy the day, go find my beach
And have my moments in the sun

Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love’s a game, a chore
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I’m yours on the day when

California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
The day you find a way to lock me down

California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
You wait for
California to fall into the sea
I cannot find a tongue you speak
I’ve tried them all, can you leave me be?

Preeeeego!

When California falls into the sea
When California falls in to the sea
It’s safe to say
We’ll never see the day

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