Margo Guryan
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[Verse 1]
Melon-rising California sun
Drifting in a day not yet begun
Six o'clock and peaceful and serene
Floating in a Technicolor scene
[Verse 2]
Something nearly peaceful in the sound
Rising from the San Andreas ground
Over ground it starts to feel strange
Underground, it starts to rearrange
[Pre-Chorus]
You'd better get up
And run for a doorway
[Chorus]
No time for thinking
Your life is at stake
Everyone's doing the California Shake
California Shake
[Verse 3]
Non-believing, everybody waits
Shifting on the continental plates
Thunder far below the ocean floor
Damned impartial sub-terrestrial war
[Verse 4]
Wond'ring if you're going to survive
God, it feels like eight point four or five
Fifteen seconds holding your breath
Living through a microscopic death
[Pre-Chorus]
You'd better hold on
The worst isn't over
[Chorus]
No time for thinking
Your life is at stake
Everyone's doing the California Shake
California Shake
California Shake (demo) was written by Margo Guryan & Richard Bennett.
California Shake (demo) was produced by David Rosner.
“Having moved from Manhattan to Los Angeles, I (like many non-native Californians) was terrified by the occasional shifting of the continental plates. This song attempts to make light of that fear, as though the ‘shaking’ was simply a communal dance in which we were all engaged. A rare co-write,...