For a moment I believed

Once you came you'd never leave

Lay like that not long enough for me



You got the trackmarks of the trade

And every promise ever made

Swore that it would be the last for me



Does it give you a rush

To think that I want you so much



Said you were back to stay

I shoulda know better

Now you're half the way to California

Now I'm curled up on your side of the bed

And I'm thinkin' bout things you never said

I would have followed you to California



Smoked me like a cigarrette 

Said that this won't hurt a bit

But you lied because it burned and it burned



Thanks a lot for leaving town

I'm so high I can't come down

Makes me wonder if I'll ever learn



Don't it give you a rush

To think that I want you so much



Said you were back to stay

I shoulda know better

Now you're half the way to California

Now I'm curled up on your side of the bed

And I'm thinkin' bout things you never said

I would have followed you to California



Do you come back 'cause you can 

Am I just waiting for a ghost of a man?



And does it give you a rush

To think that I want you so much



Said you were back to stay

I shoulda know better

Now you're half the way to California

Now I'm curled up on your side of the bed

And I'm thinkin' bout things you never said

I would have followed you to California



Said you were back to stay

Well I shoulda know better

Now you're half the way to California

(I want you so bad)

Curled up on your side of the bed

I'm thinkin' bout things you never said

I would have followed you to California

(I want you so bad)

California



Said you were back to stay

I shoulda know better

Now you're half the way to California

Curled up on your side of the bed

I'm thinkin' bout things you never said

I would have followed you to California

(I want you so bad)