In Salinas

There is a town, past the county border
When you're coming down Highway One, Highway One
There in the valley, between the golden hills
There lives a man, lives a man in Salinas

He lives alone in a studio apartment
He spends his days wondering how to get ahead
She often thinks that she'd like to go there
See him again and all the colors in Salinas

But there's nothing there for her now
Oh, there's nothing there for me
He said he could no longer entertain her
Still she thinks about that drive
And all the colors in his eyes
She thinks about that man in Salinas

Well he shuttered all the windows and he closed all the doors
And he dances with his ghosts across the old hardwood floors
And he told her that he doesn't want to love her anymore
It's too hard to get ahead in Salinas

And the other men who want her love blow kisses through the fog
But the roads to their hearts are all dead ends, all dead ends
When you lose everything, you've got nothing to lose
And anyway, she left her heart in Salinas

But there's nothing there for her now
Oh, there's nothing for me
He said he could no longer entertain her
Still she thinks about that drive
And all the colors in his eyes
She thinks about that man in Salinas

Yes, I think about that drive
And all the colors in his eyes
I think about that man in Salinas