Light You Up

Well, he was from a small town
In Northern Mississippi
She was raised on the Puget Sound
A third generation hippie

Fate would take them to L.A. County
And get them stuck in a traffic jam
And El Camino and a red Trans Am

Burst stereo was blaring Dylan
The bootleg sessions
And all the times, they are a-changing
Made a pretty good impression

She looked over and caught him smiling
Under the California setting sun
They fell in love on the one-o-one

California, California
California dreams come true

Well, they got in with the in crowd
And got off on the rock 'n' roll
Cocaine spree and the music's loud
Backstage at the Hollywood ball

They got the house and to paint the Canyon
The partied at the viper room
Blending into the neon gloom

California, California
California dreams come true
California, California
California dreams come true

Well, you see them down on the sunset strip
Trying so hard to be so hip
Manhattan Beach to Malibu
It's all about the ocean view

And who you know in Hollywood
It's cut throat but it's understood
Champagne Cooley, drink it down
You're the toast of tinsel town

California, California
California dreams come true
California, California
California dreams come true

Cold outside but I don't blame the weather
No one is calling no one is at the door
But I can't stay inside all day
Blinds pull to the floor.

There is no blue sky in my town lately
Everybody looks at the ground
Where I am is making me hazy
But the sun has never looked so pretty going down.

It ain't right it feels like forever
So many changes I start keeping score
And if you want me you want me
You'll know where I will be
I don't get out much any more.

There is no blue sky in my town lately
Everybody looks at the ground.
I've been distracted and no thy crazy
But the sun never looked so pretty going down
The sun never looks so pretty going down
Blue sky come find me I'm waiting
Oh the sun never looks so pretty .

The sun never looks so pretty
The sun never looks so pretty.

Cloud and rain smoke and smart here
Won't see many too stars tonight
Bad in time waiting on the sunset
One last glance of gold in the goodnight

There is no blue sky in my town lately
Everybody looks at the ground
And where I am is making me hazy
But the sun has never looked so pretty

There is no blue sky in my town lately
Everybody looks at the ground

I've been distracted in gold eye crazy
But the sun never looks so pretty going down
The sun never looked so pretty going down
The sun never looked so pretty
The sun never looked so pretty.

There's a factory standing empty
Where we built your Chevrolet
And we sent our kids to college
On a forty hour wage

But now the windows all are broken
There's graffiti on the walls
And the kids came home from college
And took a job down at the mall

And the winter is getting longer
And this town is frozen now
And I can't remember summer
It feels like spring may never come

There's a half full whiskey bottle
On the table by my bed
And there's a hollow in the pillow
Where she used to lay her head

And all the dreams and all the memories
Faded pictures and crooked frames
Hang in silence down the hallway
In the chill of what remains

Now the winter is getting colder
And my heart is frozen now
And I can't remember summer
It feels like spring may never come

Shades of hopeless on the faces
Of the souls who stand in light
And Holy Jesus hangs on crosses
And I hear Mother Mary crying

Halleluiah, halleluiah
Soon it all will disappear
Buried under the snows of winter
Just like we all were never here

I know a girl with a frozen heart
You never see her cry
I know a girl with a frozen heart
You couldn't break it if you tried

She slept alone
In a three bedroom home
But lived inside her mind

I knew that girl with a frozen heart
She was a friend of mine

I know a girl with a broken soul
Chained to a memory
I know a girl with a broken soul
She just couldn't let it be

She killed the pain

Only in vain
Just to feel good for awhile

I knew that girl with a broken soul
And a complicated smile

I know a girl with a one track mind
She's too far gone to know
I know a girl with a one track mind,
It hurts to watch her go

She never found a way to get down
Without shooting for the moon
I knew that girl, with a one track mind,
She left this world too soon

Never did think life would lead me here
To celebrate the day, dreams would disappear
I've been running around from the day I was born
When I finally stopped, found myself at home

I didn't ever think I'd be here right now
That I wouldn't feel like I was missing out
Somewhere out there someone's living my old dreams
Hope he's happy, I wouldn't trade for anything

I never saw myself as a family man
Smoke in my head and drink in my hand
And too hard to laugh, too low to cry
And the smoke went south and the drink went dry

Somewhere out there someone is living my old dreams
Hope he's happy, I wouldn't change a single thing
I'm living a new dream

I never did think I'd be here with you
I'm worse ? but I'm tried and true

Somewhere out there someone is living my old dreams
Hope he's happy and wouldn't trade for anything
I'm living a new dream