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California Girl
by Howie Spielman
| NY Boy: | |
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only twenty-three, but feeling old from your other lives, And sometimes it's a burden, being so very wise, You have a gift you can't control, that forces you to See, Well then I'm a babe stumbling in the dark, but that's just fine with me... Because I'm the one who had the knack For acquiring Earthly goods, And you believed in me as long as I Shared them exactly as you would. So it baffled you when I took our love And simply turned it off - Girl you're so California And I'm just too New York. |
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| CA Girl: | |
| You
resemble a boy, but what a man, with so much on your mind You've already learned to buy success by selling all your time You have a drive you don't even see, always striving for control And you chastise me for lacking strength, bending with the winds that blow Well I'm the one with inner peace I know my way is right And to see the whirlpool in your heart Needs less than second sight But if turmoil's what you thrive on Go where you'll get the most Go back to your asylum I'll stay here on my coast. |
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| NY Boy: | |
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lived together in the fog, but your head was in the clouds You spoke of sunshine everywhere, I saw storms all around Protected by your innocence, you stayed safe and warm Trusting everyone you met, suspecting none While I lived in a colder world Fostered by my own belief And all the warmth you had inside Couldn't bring on my release I guess your soul was on a higher plane Well my plane's taking off Leaving for the the real world Back there in New York. |
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| CA Girl: | |
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the times you pledged your love your mind was somewhere else Scheming ways to mutate me to an image of yourself And though I prayed you'd see the truth it came as no surprise When the love I gave to others too, was viewed with jealous eyes For as I tried to thaw your heart You were trying to freeze mine And now you want to fly away Leaving your last chance behind I hope your plane reaches greater heights Than your spirit has achieved For if it were as down to earth I know you'd never leave. |
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