California, My Lover

Out here in California
We drive across the seas
That divide this great city
That strain my lover's squeeze
The cars and waves and freeways
The yellow flash of white
What gleaming in the twilit
Sun in orange light
California, my lover California
California, I love her

And here inside here inside the bog???
The easy laughs and sighs
My friends under the moonlight
Are smoke, it fills the night
And love is in the ocean
It's hard a twirling mess
Of scrabble rocks and seaweed
A strange and cold caress
California, my lover California
California, I love her

She's sleeping through the morning
I sit up on the bed
The sky is white completely
The blues are underfed
And up here in Topanga
We drink the steeping tea
I still can feel you smiling
Looking back at me, oh

California, my lover California
California, I love her
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