What's on your mind?

Well I love her
And she's leaving
She met a man that plays in a band last weekend
And he lives out on the west coast
And she says shes got to go
Cause it's a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A.
Anything could change her mind,
One sunset or one regret
She could turn around, come back and be mine
Happy endings happen all the time
She's almost finished packing
There's over 2,000 miles
Alot could happen
Theres going to be days and days of long stretches
Maybe she'll come back to her senses
Cause it's a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A.
Anything could change her mind
One sunset or one regret
She could turn around, come back and be mine
Happy endings happen all the time
Well I ain't waiting on no phone call
I ain't getting my hopes up and all
I ain't setting myself up for a fall
It's a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A.
Anything could change her mind
One sunset or one regret
She could turn around, come back and be mine
Then everything would be just fine
Yea happy endings happen all the time
It's a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A.

California's burning, burning, burning to the ground...and my head is turning, turning, turning round and round...alie's stomach's churning, churning, like a storm today...and your mother's crying, crying, closing up the safe...and I'm here, wondering where the sun has gone...driving through to Mexico,asking why there's no one home...Encinitas likes to miss me, like nobody's child..and my eyes like rainy Tuesdays, like to watch you smile...and I'm here, wondering where the sun has gone...driving through a Midwest storm,asking why there's no one home...

I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight
On a bed of California stars
I'd love to feel
Your hand touching mine
And tell me why I must keep working on
Yes I'd give my life
To lay my head tonight on a bed
Of California stars I
'd like to dream
My troubles all away
On a bed of California stars

Christmas break of ninety eight just flipped me upside down
One coast out to the other following the sound
Headed west to get the best of what we all knew then
One ocean to another waves come crashing down
Carrying just me and Stephanie she held my hand
Told me why I was
Blazing down that highway on my way to
Rock Star Land
California, a place they say glistens gold.
I wanna go there and never come back home, yeah.
Staring up at freeway signs in dreams that make me sad
One coast out to the other
One ocean to another
We cruised out to the other side
Loved us in Nebraska how they cheered us in Mattane
Told me why I was
Blazing down that highway on my way to
Rock Star Land
California, a place they say glistens gold.
I wanna go there and never come back home, yeah.

everybody got out of the water
in a lonesome convertible
with lipstick portables
you're part horrible (you're part horrible)
you're part affordable (you're part affordable)
... to san diego
was i seeing you or seeing double
with the palm trees adorable
in a town so explorable
you're part horrible (you're part horrible)
you're part affordable (you're part affordable)
you're part horrible (you're part horrible)
and that's why we drove to san diego

So at last southern California
Sun sets like a long goodbye
I've been dreaming about it for days
But I don't ask why
I can feel it in my bones
I'm a careless season it started just the other day
And what'd you expectT
hat just for no reason I packed it in and drove away
Now I don't mean to pin this one on you, darlin'
It's time I found something good
When it comes right down
You're just one of many people that never really understood
So at last southern California
Sun sets like a long goodbye
I've been dreaming about it for days
But I don't ask why
As I drove into a city painted on the desert
With everthing 10 miles high
Hard to believe that nobody will see what I see
Through my blood shot eyes
Now I don't mean to sound so young and naive
But I think we've found something good,
And now I can feel me leaving who I used to be
As we're driving into Hollywood
So at last southern California
Sun sets like a long goodbye
I've been dreaming about it for days
But I don't ask why
So at last southern California
Sun sets like a long goodbye
I've been dreaming about it for days
And now I know why
I can feel it in my bones
I'm a careless season it started when I woke today
And now that I'm here
It's all so very clear
The reason that I drove away
Now I don't mean to call so early now, darlin'
But the waves just feel so good
And I'll always come around
And watch the sun go down
Just like you knew I would
So at last southern California
Sun sets like a long goodbye
I've been dreaming about it for days
But I don't ask why
So at last southern California
Sun sets like a long goodbye
I've been dreaming about it for days
And now I know why

Hundreds of songs about it... there must be a good reason... see for yourself... http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-songs-about-california?cat=entertainment


It's times like these
that I want to get away
Times when the houses no longer
bleed into the sky...
but the days do seem to bleed
into one another.
And when each scar is parallel to the one before...
No, I don't think you do understand-
there are no overstatements here.
I will keep this grudge like I
"kept" that photo we took
that day
last June.
Too soon I will drive away from this
personal wreckage.
Too soon I will forget your name
and your face.
Too soon, after two days, and two days, and two more,
I drive away
with the wind at my back
and in my hair
with my ease
in the seat beside me.
No agenda,
no distractions-
just miles of highway in both directions
on recycled tires;
a circle of life new age style:
rubber to road,
the pedal to the metal.
And I will wake with the sun if I so choose-
not to make him his secret pre-dawn pick-me-up
(a quad espresso macchiato)
but to hang with him in this sky
on these lazy winter days.
I will smile on all those who I see
I'll eat nothing but bagels for weeks and weeks
living from day to day
penny to penny.
From here to there.
From this Starbucks cafe in wind blown Orlando...
To the Hot Monkey Love cafe in downtown San Diego to see
Bushwalla sing
Ghettoblaster
and Self Depricating Hip Hop.
Throw in a friendly face, barely recognisable after all these years
and off I'll flow
down the road.
Look,
there I go.