Learning to Let Go

In California, I cried

Familiar world, but not my own

Electric buzz, the TV shown

Me all my life, another way of being known

Another way of being

I'd had my fill of city sounds

Of pacing San Francisco round and round and round

So we took the Golden Gate to another land

Down winding roads, out to the sea

But still, I could not hear the waves

Just the work I'd left behind

Whispering poisoned words to me

In California, I cried

And with each breathless tear, I realized

That I'm still learning to let go

I'm still learning to let go

I'm still learning to let go

I'm still learning to let go

California (California), California (California)

I know the who, but I still don't know what I want to be

California (California)

I'm still learning to let go (California)

I write it on magnolia leaves

California, stay with me

In Berkeley, on a call through

While the barber does his thing to you

I find myself sat beneath the pink white trees

While streams of students flow around and around me

Such rivers of potential

In an intangible symphony

And I'm still learning to let go

I'm still learning to let go

I'm still learning to let go

I'm still learning to let go

California (California), California (California)

I know the who, but I still don't know what I want to be

California (California)

I'm still learning to let go (California)

I write it on magnolia leaves

California, stay with me

California (California), California (California)

I know the who, but I still don't know what I want to be

California (California)

I'm still learning to let go (California)

I write it on magnolia leaves

California, stay with me

I write it on magnolia leaves

California, stay with me