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