My brother lived in San Francisco
He said he finally found his place
And when I go to San Francisco
Everywhere I look, I see his face
But then I faced childhood
Under stark Montana skies
And but he seemed to always have cities in his eyes
He longed for possibility
He lived to move away
And he finally found his dream
In the city by the bay
Joe and I were best friends
In our small-time college town
And Joe had personality
What a campus clown
His jokes hid deep rivers
That bubbled far bеlow
And he rode the currеnt west
Where the rapid waters flow
Lots of us have brothers there
Who would love to show the sights
And share the balmy freedom
Of San Francisco nights
They liked it so much more
Than anywhere they'd been
And we thought they would be there
When we made it back again
My brother lived in San Francisco
He said he finally found his place
And when I go to San Francisco
Everywhere I look, I see his face