some old girl says the feeling strikes starin in the mirror turned ya knuckles white just some old girl, you used to know and some old kid out past his prime crows feet and sunken eye’d just some old kid, ya used to know but you and i don’t wanna fight it and left our love a sleeping giant and left our love a sleeping giant a sleeping giant, oh a sleeping giant some old girl weighs on ya mind heavy as the web of lies, that some old kid has always told left ages since we spoke, like boney branches overgrown hack out the limbs, with roots below but you and i undivided don’t leave ya love, a sleeping giant don’t leave ya love, a sleeping giant a sleeping giant, a sleeping giant don’t leave ya love, a sleeping giant…

at the mercy of wind, that sweeps up this l.a. brushfire gonna take it to the canyon may i be, taken, taken too at the mercy of the tide that drove in another swell gonna take it to the shoreline maybe i’m still, taken with you but i aint gonna be ya runner up and i don’t wanna stay in touch, california, oh california san andreas waits to unwind like a row of dominos gonna shake down that skyline and maybe i’m still all shook up, shook up too but i aint gonna be your runner up and i don’t wanna stay in touch california, california, oh california but i aint gonna be your runner up and i don’t wanna stay in touch california… oh california

we don’t go out in the city, we aint been part of the scene i can’t lie, i am yours like you are mine no lie we are free and aint no lie the girls out on the strip ain’t got nothin on you kid, aint got on ya we been down in saint rose and high as the cascades stand but wherever i sleep tonight will be with hat in hand and this iron will to quit, aint got nothin on you kid aint got nothin on you. aint got nothin on ya…

forty-five is slower when it spins on our recorder and before they all come over my oh myshook as the wheel spun, lost from everyone, they dont know where we come from where we come from 45 is slower with grooves that skip over, every word ya heard before, my oh my cause our hot blood, bound by wonderlust still don’t know where we come from where we come from my my oh my…oh oh… my oh my….

a street riot outside, they wont reign em in tonight seen the crowd from ya rooftop, said ‘they can’t take their eyes off all they want, don’t matter if the city goes’ haywire, haywire its only you and i as our cities gone, haywire a motorcade busted up, flames pour out the roofline seen it spark up again, just when we thought it’d died won’t ya lie low and watch the city go haywire, haywire its only you and i, as our cities gone, haywire, haywire its only you and i, as our cities gone, haywire hayyywire, hey hey…

down highway miles your sleepin in our middle seat with my heart as full as an ashtray at a slot machine oh california, god your cold sometimes like you and your, like you and your vivid eyes on mine, on mine down highway miles where the twilight, turns on everything well my heart’s as pure as war, has a clear enemy oh new york your stray dogs run wild like you and your, like you and your vivid eyes, on mine, on mine…

aint we been tense piano strings, are we ever struck by anything? aint we been moved wayward teeth, how long ya been drifting? but dont we burn rising heat or are you only blowing smoke? off tongues we roll hey didn’t i tell you, didn’t i tell you so, everythings under control cmon i told ya, i got everything under control like a wild moan, like a wild moan been static snowy tv screen howd ya picture this to be? cause this lowkey little melody been shook to snap them strings but maybe i still cant, still cant shake ya and need to sing myself to sleep hey didn’t i tell you, didn’t i tell you so, everythings under control cmon i told ya, i got everything under control like a wild moan, like a wild moan

a conscience is gonna clean like bleach white teeth ya i know, this aint what it used to be said ‘the choice was easy’ came on like a thief gone like a thrill, sang the key after ya leave, after ya leave said your gonna be, guiltfree after ya leave, after ya leave how ya gonna be? guiltfree so let the highway bring release and distance take the memory hey hey don’t let no history stand between but mine aint ghostly, hums like a reed and clings to these, bleach white sheets after ya leave, after ya leave how ya gonna be? guilt free after ya leave, after ya leavehow ya gonna be? guilt free guilt free oh c’monoh cmon will ya let your love be? oh cmon, hey cmon will ya let love be? guiltfree

ooo have ya had some revelation? been hopin that you’d find it and aint made up your mind yet cause theres no replacing them fingers in the blackness moving so backhanded oh how long?… have you been waitin on some? revelation ooo have ya thoughts gone as hazy as this california fog lies draped along her coastline and your that slowdiving dawn who sings ‘whenever i rise gonna be mine dead to rights’ oh how come?… your still waiting on some revelation