Katie Belle’s “West Coast,” is a song that takes the reader on a beautifully penned journey, capturing the bittersweetness of ambition and the emotional complexity of leaving home. Her words explore a world of opposites: East coast comfort and West coast dreams.

The song opens with the heroine choosing to leave her roots behind for a whole new life in LA. It can be seen that there is a sacrifice involved in chasing our dreams as we trade off between love and ambition or between staying comfortable and going into uncertainty. Therefore, the line “I left my love for fortune and fame, to a place where it never rains” implies that abandoning love for material gain is part of pursuing an ambition which may not necessarily be fulfilled.

Katie Bell poetically writes about what should happen when every decision has been made but there are still feelings of longing for somewhere else–home perhaps. “I miss my bed and I miss my home, it’ll paint me blue” plays on listeners’ emotions as they realize that she is missing the safety blanket created by her upbringing even though she seems to have moved on.

The lyrics also discuss about how seductive yet unsafe this destination is; phrases like “land of sex and daisies” or “the city that will save me” juxtapose glamour against its underlying threat whereby one may lose him/herself due to stardom pursuit.

“West Coast” by Katie Belle is a song which justifies why people who are ambitious always want to leave their homes for mysterious places. This means that anyone who makes choices based on fear cannot relate to her lines because they have never had to make any difficult ones in their lives.