California

I always knew she'd run away

Work in a record store or some little beach cafe

Another smile, another dress, another name

One night with you I'd knew she'd never be the same

She's just an ordinary girl

Stuck in your extraordinary world

California! Send her back I'm begging you

California! Just a week or so would do

So I can show her I'm true

Cuz what’s one more to you?

I wonder where she is today

Reading Steinbeck, getting lost in Monterey

Another beach, another flower in her hair

I'll always wish I was the guy to put it there

This backwater boy is obsolete

Because with you I can't compete

California! You know you make me feel so small

California! Your blue waves drown out my call

Can she hear me at all?

Oh don't let me fall

Can she hear me at all?

Oh don’t take them all

(Can’t stand the heat)

I would follow where she goes

But I just haven’t got the clothes for it baby

(Knocked off my feet)

If I show up at her door

They’ll kick me out of town before she ever knows

She's just an ordinary girl

Stuck in your extraordinary world

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