On the road to nowhere, every day was just the same
So I took my belongings and hitchhiked, no more to blame
To California, in the warm Summer of love
All my life I've been searching
All my life I've been searching

I came to a crossroad, where a stranger gazed and spoke
He was looking kinda peculiar in a purple coloured cloak
He wore a token, never seen before
He said: "All my life I've been searching
All my life I've been searching"

Sunset in Southern California
And the morning seems so far, so far away
Sunset in Southern California
In the distance there's the light of San Diego

I came to his temple at noon the second day
It was a lot of mumbling, in the shadows did they pray
Feeling kind of dizzy, a gong struck and people chanted
All my life I've been searching
All my life I've been searching

Sunset in Southern California
And the morning seems so far, so far away
Sunset in Southern California
In the distance there's the light of San Diego

Then a kind of a leader, appeared in fume and smoke
All dressed in silver, an authoritarian bloke
He turned around and talked to me with a demagogic voice
All my life I've been searching
All my life I've been searching

Sunset in Southern California
And the morning seems so far, so far away
Sunset in Southern California
In the distance there's the light of San Diego
In the distance there's the light of San Diego 
In the distance there's the light of San Diego