California dreamer 

Tell me why did you go? 

I carved your ever fading figure 

Into the ever dying snow 



I'll be around 

I'll be around 

I'll be around 

Like a teenager in town 

Where all the other young lovers are found 



And I think I mighta heard you on the radio 

But the radio waves were like snow 



And you were dreaming of Los Angeles 

While I was singing songs you wrote 

You quietly gave away the winter clothes I made for you 

While I made angels in the snow 



I would have left if you just asked me to 

Or come to me before the preacher 

Now you're surviving 



And I thought I mighta heard you on the radio 

But the radio waves were like snow 

And I thought I mighta heard you on the radio 

But the radio waves were like snow 



Do the young stay pretty? 

Do the pretty stay quick? 

You know, but you never surrender 

The city doesn't belong to you anymore 

California dreamer 



You dream of seasons that never die 

You go to oceans that never touch the ice 

You dream of seasons that never die 

You go to oceans that never touch the ice 

You dream of seasons that never die 

You go to oceans that never touch the ice 



I surrender, the city to slender 

Creature's getting younger and younger 



And I think I mighta heard you on the radio 

But the radio waves were like snow 

And I think I mighta heard you on the radio 

But the radio waves were like snow 



Do the young stay pretty? 

Do the pretty stay quick? 

You know, but you never surrender 

The city doesn't belong to you anymore 

California dreamer 



I'll be around 

I'll be around 

I'll be around 

Like a teenager in town 

With all the other young lovers, their mothers have been found 

California dreamer