CALIFORNIA CALLING

California calling like a burning light

Over a million miles of wrong and right

With a billion places to eat along the way

It doesn’t matter much though when you’re flat out broke

And everybody thinks that you’re a joke

But you’ve still got your dues to pay

 

No matter who or where you are

Love should be the only star

That guides on that road you find yourself upon

Love with just a hint of laughter

and getting rid of all that matters

That’s how you walk down that road in fun

 

Joy and heart and peace and pain

Sometimes feels like all the same

When the drums beat loud and out of time

And the poems all forget…

 

A voice singing loud but out of key

In a subway hall for a tiny fee

Cry’s to love, for love past and still to come

And everybody that walks right by

Just can’t help but wonder why

They worry themselves so blind and so dumb

 

Every last song you sing

Can boil down to just one thing

You just can’t hold on to what you’ve got

But if you work enough you know you’ll get it back

Before you have a heart attack

Come to think of it, I think maybe not

 

Joy and heart and peace and pain

Sometimes feels like all the same

When the drums beat loud and out of time

And the poems all forget to rhyme

 

Joy and heart and peace and pain

Sometimes feels like all the same

When the drums beat loud and out of time

And the poems all forget…