Goodbye California, after 9 long years of playing by your rules

You'd think I'd have a clue

I might miss the ocean if I cared to make that fifteen minute drive

But I hardly made the time

I'l be on my way, gone today

In a way I always knew this day would come

When you don't belong, then move along

Try to get back all the years you may have lost

Hey, you might be better off

Careful what you wish for, you might suffer from the moment you arrive

If you don't watch out for the lies

And pay your parking meters and 10 dollars for a beer at most the bars

With all them fancy cars

I'll be on my way, gone today

In a way I always knew this day would come

When you don't belong, then move along

Try to get back all the years you may have lost

Hey, you might be better off

On your own, lost...

When you're lost, call

Goodbye California, I guess a memory of you will have to do

From a foreign point of view

And to the friends that I believe in, now I understand why you can't come along

but that's another song

So goodbye, California

Goodbye, California

Goodbye, California

Goodbye, California