California Zephyr

Up the hudson valley across new york state

To chicago then the plains

All so easy and dreamlike

Crashing the salt flat day break

I hear "i'll take you home again kathleen"

Sad in fogwinds out there that blow

Across the rooftops of eerie old hang over

San francisco

Now i'm transcontinental

3000 miles from my home

I'm on the california zephyr

Watching america roll by

I've hit the end of the trail, can't even drag my body

I've been driven mad for three years

Too much fame keeps a body busy

And a mind full of white port tears

Terrified by that sad song across rooftops

Mingled with the lachrymose cries

Of the salvation army meeting on the corner

Saying satan is the cause of it all

Now i'm transcontinental

3000 miles from my home

I'm on the california zephyr

Watching america roll by