Love's a list of things And I'm already late What will stay the same In a body made to blame Are the reasons and that's all As fast as you can drive And lost as you arrive They will be permanently... And that's more than California could ever promise you More than California, California... And it's only California staring back at you Only California, California... Coincidence could trace In chalk around this place Or shake out the dust and cover us gently But the math is new again The numbers will do us in, oh yeah Not today, but one day like today And songs for California are catching up with you Songs about California, California... When we call it California, they named it after you You are California, California... In sentences and in pieces of them You will be covered, or something And California, California... California, California...