California

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I watched as the sun came slowly rising Laying waste all the damage from the night before A blood-red knife as it cut the horizon A warrior who can't find a war [Chorus] Don't look for pain in the faces that love California Though you know that it's there by the way that they're pacing the floor And don't look for love in the city of the fallen angels Though I look for your face in every stranger that walks through the door [Verse 2] The sailors lay drunken against the bar While the whores and the gamblers lay waste their pay But I am no better than they are tonight For misery's found company in shame [Chorus] And don't look for pain in the faces that love California Though you know that it's there by the way that they've seen it all before And don't look for love in the city of the fallen angels Though I look for your face in every stranger that walks through the door [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] And such is the end of this windswept night In this season called winter that knows no snow A bird seeking shelter too late for flight The dawn shows us mercilessly alone [Chorus] And don't look for pain in the faces that love California Though you know that it's there by the way that they can't take no more And don't look for love in the city of the fallen angels Though I look for your face in every stranger that walks through the door Though I look for your face in every stranger that walks through the door