(Verse) Why's everyone still singing about California? Haven't we heard enough about the Golden State? I guess if you like sandy beaches and blue ocean water There's something about it, to which I cannot relate I need to see the leaves change and the snowflakes falling I need to hear the call, the wind whistling through the winter pines Why's everyone still singing about California? Haven't we heard enough about the Golden State? And people still follow them dreams to sweet California And from time to time I pass on by, but I will never stay (Verse) Sure there are beautiful people, in the city of lost angels They're living like they're kings and queens, from some royal age But fortune and fame won't save you, when California Is wiped out by the ring of fire or a great earthquake Why's everyone still singing about California? Haven't we heard enough about the Golden State? And people still follow them dreams to sweet California And from time to time I pass on by, but I will never stay No, I will never stay Never stay x2

I fear I'll die from complications Complications due to things that I've left undone That all my debts will be left unpaid, feel like a cripple without a cane I'm like a jack of all trades who's a master of none Then there's my father, he's always looking on the bright side Saying things like "Son life just ain't that hard" He is the grand optimist, I am the world's poor pessimist You give him burdens sometimes and he will escape unscarred I guess I take after my mother I guess I take after my mother But I used to be quite resilient Gained no strength from counting the beads on a rosary And now the wound has begun to turn, Another lesson that has gone unlearned But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy I guess I take after my mother I guess I take after my mother I guess I take after my mother I guess I take after my mother

You need not to climb mountain tops You need not to cross the sea You need not to find a cure For everything that makes you weak You need not to reach for the stars When life becomes so dark And when the wind does blow against the grain You must follow your heart You must follow your heart All your friends have come and gone And the sun no longer shines And the happiness for which you long Is washed away like an oceans tide When all the hard times outweigh the good And all your words are misunderstood When the day seems lost from the start You must follow your heart You must follow your heart If you feel you've paid the price And your wounds should cease to heal And everything you love in life Spins like a winding wheel If you should wake to find your abandoned And the road you traveled leads to a dead end When death creaps in to play it's part You must follow your heart. You must follow your heart.