California

There was fire in the valley
Smoke was blowing cross the beach
It was circling round your city
Like a wild, hungry beast
And I thought about the last time
That I saw you here back east
We built a campfire on a mountain
A thousand coyotes filled the trees

And I hope that's how you're sleeping now
With angels round your head
Cause we were safe despite the dogs that might
Have torn us from our beds

But if the beating of your heart leaves you lonely
And you can't sleep for the wheels spinning round
Remember me way out in California
And know that you are always on my mind

You went driving late last summer
To find a ghost town in the hills
It looked just like the movies
Dust that curled round the sills
But the desert it kept whispering
It pulled you further still
Until the sunk sank in the sand
The world turned black beyond the wheel

And I hope the stars broke through the dark
To light your way back home
And the spirits in the desert
Didn't keep you for their own

But if the beating of your heart leaves you lonely
And you can't sleep for the wheels spinning round
Remember me way out in California
And know that you are always on my mind

There were trees older than Moses
Curled and calloused like his hands
We went walking there as brothers
Through the hills where time began
We were fools to think our footsteps
Side by side could form a plan
For we drifted like the breeze
That erased them from the sand

And I hope that stones can roll towards home
But maybe until then
In the space between asleep and dream
Think on your absent friend

And I hope that stones can roll towards home
But maybe until then
In the space between asleep and dream
Think on your absent friend

If the beating of your heart leaves you lonely
And you can't sleep for the wheels spinning round
Remember me way out in California
And know that you are always on my mind
And know that you are always on my mind
And know that you are always on my mind