Southern California

Sunlight hits a sign and I'm in Union Station

My arms are heavy in their sleeves

Everyone here thinks that I've been on vacation

But I don't ever seem to leave

And all that I can tell you is my love's unfocused

And drifting overseas

Head's all full of context better left unspoken

As scenes from old Pomona dreams come washing over me

No one wants to tell you just how long they've been here

The stars are crawling out their frames

The canvas on the ankle straps is wearing thin, dear

And I can't help but feel the same

When everything in town's been taken down for renovations

The hardest part is finding your way home

Freeway cuts the sky and I'm inside it's suppurations

But Southern California's got this way of creeping up on you

And all that I can tell you is my love's unfocused

And drifting overseas

Head's all full of context better left unspoken

As scenes from old Pomona dreams come washing over me

One last look around and then I'm always leaving

The stars are falling out of tune

Fingers bear the stains of shipping and receiving

These songs that carry me to you

But this is not some list of all the ways I should have loved you

Hold you in my arms and let you down

Turn my crooked smile up to the sky and I'm thinking of you

But Southern California's got me driving home in rental cars

And Southern California's got this way of tearing me and you apart

And you know it's true, California's tearing us apart

And I want it to

But all that I can tell you is my love's unfocused

And drifting overseas

Head's all full of context better left unspoken

As scenes from old Pomona dreams come washing over me