BACK TO CALIFORNIA...I don't need no money, don't need my things Just Sunset Strip and six guitar strings Going back to California Where my new life is born, yeah Got a good job, a pretty girl, too But there ain't no ocean water that blue Back to California Back to California, here I go Drive west, guzzling my gas Going best when the stress all comes to pass For the Great Escape, red grape, taking in the landscape I'mma make my way to L.A. I can't wait And when I get there, without a care I ain't gonna be a millionaire All I care to do is stare At the ocean's gleaming beam and it screams a new stream of consciousness and a bliss that I've missed since I returned to all this See, the plain mundane will make you go insane and my brain keeps sayin' it's cravin' for a stain of brown on my skin from some west coast livin' and I'm givin' it all away for L.A. I don't need no money, don't need my things Just Sunset Strip and six guitar strings Going back to California Where my new life is born, yeah Got a good job, a pretty girl, too But there ain't no ocean water that blue Back to California Back to California, here I go Everyday would be the same Wake up from a dream just to seem like it's a game I take my guitar to the beach And let the world teach me and preach to me through God's beautiful speech to me spoken through pictures, not words I'll praise Him for the days that He made living best in the grade, under the shade of the palm trees and a breeze that can ease the meanest disease 'cuz I hurt more than I ever did before Find a tiny place to live up on the 2 A short sunny walk from Ocean Avenue Maybe hitch a ride up north to Malibu No matter what I do It's paradise, ya'll know it's true And I sing to you I don't need no fancy car I don't need to be no superstar I just know that I'm so far from a place to heal my scars I don't need no money, don't need my things Just Sunset Strip and six guitar strings Going back to California Where my new life is born, yeah Got a good job, a pretty girl, too But there ain't no ocean water that blue Back to California Back to California, here I go |
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