California dreamer 
 Tell me why did you go? 
 I carved your ever fading figure 
 Into the ever dying snow 

 I'll be around 
 I'll be around 
 I'll be around 
 Like a teenager in town 
 Where all the other young lovers are found 

 And I think I mighta heard you on the radio 
 But the radio waves were like snow 

 And you were dreaming of Los Angeles 
 While I was singing songs you wrote 
 You quietly gave away the winter clothes I made for you 
 While I made angels in the snow 

 I would have left if you just asked me to 
 [bad word] to me before the preacher 
 Now you're surviving 

 And I thought I mighta heard you on the radio 
 But the radio waves were like snow 
 And I thought I mighta heard you on the radio 
 But the radio waves were like snow 

 Do the young stay pretty? 
 Do the pretty stay quick? 
 You know, but you never surrender 
 The city doesn't belong to you anymore 
 California dreamer 

 You dream of seasons that never die 
 You go to oceans that never touch the ice 
 You dream of seasons that never die 
 You go to oceans that never touch the ice 
 You dream of seasons that never die 
 You go to oceans that never touch the ice 

 I surrender, the city to slender 
 Creature's getting younger and younger 

 And I think I mighta heard you on the radio 
 But the radio waves were like snow 
 And I think I mighta heard you on the radio 
 But the radio waves were like snow 

 Do the young stay pretty? 
 Do the pretty stay quick? 
 You know, but you never surrender 
 The city doesn't belong to you anymore 
 California dreamer 

 I'll be around 
 I'll be around 
 I'll be around 
 Like a teenager in town 
 With all the other young lovers, their mothers have been found 
 California dreamer