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