Goodbye California
I'm leaving you now
I'm headed for a better place I've found
The things I loved about you
Have gone missing somehow
Goodbye California, goodbye
Everyday I hear about somebody getting out
It's just too hard to live here they say
Takes everything they got to pay the rent and gas the car
While everywhere they look they see nothing but decay
Goodbye California
I'm leaving you now
I'm headed for a better place I've found
The things I loved about you
Have gone missing somehow
Goodbye California, goodbye
There isn't any water left, the ground is slowly shifting
There's people living underneath the highway
There's fire burning in the hills, the smoke is never lifting
The things we were promised have all gone astray
Goodbye California
And then the winter rains fall upon the sunbaked ground
I see the red sun melting in the water
So many people, so many shades of brown
Your golden pathways lie before my son and my daughter
So goodbye to you leavers
I'll stay right here where I am
California I will surely try
To live a better life, love my neighbor if I can
Here in California 'til I die
Goodbye
Goodbye
