California (feat. Kate Fenner)

You got all the way to California before you changed your mind

If you could've found the way from California

Would you have stayed behind

And the priest and the poet both laid claim to your land

And told you look to the future Through the holes in your hands

And you lie there beside her with one foot on the floor

Because she fed you the Kool-Aid and then she showed you the door

And I know, but won't reveal, that you took both hands off the wheel

And I saw through the guile hidden behind every smile

When there was nothing, you had denial

Like the speed of sound as it crosses water late at night

You just turned around and set a new course overnight

There was a fee for the finder, paid twice through the nose

And a mournful reminder stained your skin and your clothes

It wreaked of the havoc that no cards could predict

When he said no you can't have it, you're a habit I've kicked

And on this sacred ground no one moved when you fell down

And it flowed from your eyes to this blood-red painted town

The ones who remember

You were around in the days of the kings and the crowns

I missed my only chance to say, hey, where you bound?

You got all the way to California before you changed your mind

If you could've found the way from California

Would you have stayed behind