Going To California

(album: Emily Can't Sing - 2021)

Spend my days with a woman unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind, make a new start
Going to California with an aching in my heart
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

Took my chances on a big jet-plane
Never let 'em tell ya that they're all the same
The sea was red and the sky was grey
Wondering how tomorrow could ever follow today
Mountains and the canyons start to tremble and shake
The children of the sun begin to awake (now watch out)

Seems that the wrath of the gods got a punch on the nose
And it's starting to flow, I think I might be sinking
Throw me a line, if I reach it in time
Meet you up there where the path runs straight and high
High, high
Oooooooo

To find a queen without a king
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings, (sing buddy) la-la-la-la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Trying to find a woman who's never, never, never been born
Standing on a hill in the mountain of dreams
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems