California Zephyr

Up the Hudson Valley across New York State

To Chicago then the plains

All so easy and dreamlike, crashin' the salt flat daybreak

I hear, "I'll take you home again, Kathleen"

Saddened fog winds out there to blow

Across the rooftops of Eerie, old hangover San Francisco

Now I'm transcontinental, three thousand miles from my home

I'm on the California Zephyr, watchin' America roll by

Now I'm transcontinental, three thousand miles from my home

I'm on the California Zephyr, watchin' America roll by

I've hit the end of the trail, can't even drag my body

I've been driven mad for three years

Too much fame keeps a body busy and a mind full of white port tears

Terrified by that sad song across rooftops

Mingle with the lachrymose cries

Of the Salvation Army meeting on the corner

Saying, "Satan is the cause of it all"

Now I'm transcontinental, three thousand miles from my home

I'm on the California Zephyr, watchin' America roll by

Now I'm transcontinental, three thousand miles from my home

I'm on the California Zephyr, watchin' America roll by