California Lyrics

Now so many things have been written, in poetry, stories and song

But I want to share my own feelings, rather than just sing along

The place of my birth and my childhood, the world for my first twenty years

Home where the love and affection, dealt with my hopes and my fears

California, California

Wish I'd never felt the need to roam

California, better warn yer

Looking a lot like I won't be coming home

A state that has all you could wish for, a state that delivers your dream

A land of incredible contrast, you witness every extreme

Of climate, people and landscape, there's somewhere the sun always shines

The Beach Boys have told of the women, the movies have told of the wines

California, California

Wish I'd never felt the need to roam

California, better warn yer

Looking a lot like I won't be coming home

So proud was I to sign up for my country

To go and put things right where they were wrong

But by the second year, it was getting mighty clear

That no-one thought to tell us we'd be fighting for so long

The sun's shining down on our valley, this time in a far foreign land

It's not been a very good morning, suspect this is our last stand

A moment of calm has descended, and though it is but for a while

We fill it with talk of our homeland, and comfort ourselves with a smile

California, California

Wish I'd never felt the need to roam

California, better warn yer

Looking a lot like I won't be coming home

Yeah looking a lot like I won't be coming home

It's looking a lot like I won't be coming home