"California" by Joni Mitchell

“i went to college far away from home. I’d sit in my room and cry and cry and cry, listening to this as the snow fell, missing california so badly it hurt. “will you take me as i am? string out on another man?” kills me every time.”

“I maybe (absolutely) decided I was going to school out of state in California after listening to this song in high school.”

“When I moved across the country, I didn’t allow myself to listen to this song for over a year because it made me weep for home.”