California
It seems like only yesterday
I wasted time, wasted away
I hit the west coast two months out of school
Well life was soft and we drank hard
We'd crawl down Hollywood Boulevard
And Saturday meant Stoli's by the pool
All that sunshine on the brain
Enough to drive a boy insane
It's easy to lose sight of why you came
A mohawked girl with train-track arms
She squawked how life on daddy's farm was
Not the life that she was meant to live
A grand deluded whacked out scheme
She found the town of broken dreams had
Taken all that she had had to give
All that sunshine on the brain
Not enough to dull the pain
And some they never get back home again
California here I come
Right back where I started dumb
I'm not much smarter than the day I left
I'm going back to California
Dressed in black, I'm going to mourn the
Fact I never lived in California when I did
Far away and long ago
I shuffled off from Buffalo
A fearless deed for such a fearful lad
Now yesteryear's like yesterday
I rue the time I threw away and
Love the time I thought I never had
All that sunshine on the brain
Paradise was lost in vain
Still I knew I'd get back there again
California here I come
Right back where I started dumb
I'm not much smarter than the day I left
I'm going back to California
Dressed in black, I'm going to mourn the
Fact I never lived in California when I did
When I did
When I did
Samilou Publishing
I wasted time, wasted away
I hit the west coast two months out of school
Well life was soft and we drank hard
We'd crawl down Hollywood Boulevard
And Saturday meant Stoli's by the pool
All that sunshine on the brain
Enough to drive a boy insane
It's easy to lose sight of why you came
A mohawked girl with train-track arms
She squawked how life on daddy's farm was
Not the life that she was meant to live
A grand deluded whacked out scheme
She found the town of broken dreams had
Taken all that she had had to give
All that sunshine on the brain
Not enough to dull the pain
And some they never get back home again
California here I come
Right back where I started dumb
I'm not much smarter than the day I left
I'm going back to California
Dressed in black, I'm going to mourn the
Fact I never lived in California when I did
Far away and long ago
I shuffled off from Buffalo
A fearless deed for such a fearful lad
Now yesteryear's like yesterday
I rue the time I threw away and
Love the time I thought I never had
All that sunshine on the brain
Paradise was lost in vain
Still I knew I'd get back there again
California here I come
Right back where I started dumb
I'm not much smarter than the day I left
I'm going back to California
Dressed in black, I'm going to mourn the
Fact I never lived in California when I did
When I did
When I did
Samilou Publishing
Credits
Writer(s): Nicholas William Francis Johnston, Daniel Berriman Wallage, Jack Rollins
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