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Artist: Robert Ellis
Canonical path: /robert-ellis/california
Related lyric paths: 6
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California
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California
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It was a long way to go
From Louisiana to Laredo
With everything that they owned
Boxed up in the back of a van
She would have gone to the moon
If that's what it took to follow him
It's funny what love makes you do
Standing alone
There in the kitchen she's packing up plates again
Standing alone
She is remembering every fight with him
Thinking alone
What am I doing here in this ghost town?
Now that he's gone
There isn't a reason for me to stick around
And she says maybe I'll move to California
With the unbroken part of my heart I still have left
Maybe I'll fall in love again someday
I'm not gonna hold my breath
I'm not gonna hold my breath
Which way to go
When every road leads away from the things you wanted
Which way to go
When every memory is built like a home that's haunted
Closing your eyes
Dream of a place where things turn out the way you plan
Everything dies
Dream of a place where the living resides again
And she says maybe I'll move to California
With the unbroken part of my heart I still have left
Maybe I'll fall in love again someday
I'm not gonna hold my breath
I'm not gonna hold my breath
Maybe I'll move to California
With the unbroken part of my heart I still have left
Maybe I'll fall in love again someday
Maybe I'll move to California
With the unbroken part of my heart I still have left
Maybe I'll fall in love again someday
I'm not gonna hold my breath
I'm not gonna hold my breath
I'm not gonna hold my breath
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