California saved your life Stated the policy in black and white You cornered off your facetious sides And they left their heads on foreign soil California saved your life Proclaimed the modern-day jeremiad Timbre changed in the man*script As it pleaded, pale, with you not to... Broadcast the lie Faded and white Promised to say Only to say What you see California saved your life But that was only at illness's height A documentary proof that you cannot Bleed in public is enclosed And there's a modern day skid row Coming over your bistro No-o-oh And there's a modern day skid row
Coming over your bistro No-oh Castrate the falling of mind (?) Mis-sold your head one more time (?) See the six-shooter to stay Cost-cutting plans underway You can't describe the guns today They left their homes to fly away Attention slipped, a curious flight Among the ruins of the child California saved your life But that was only at illness's height A red pulse on the smallest child As he blasted over the roof And there's a modern day skid row Coming over your bistro No-o-oh And there's a modern day skid row Coming over your bistro No-oh