I should have gone to California
But it's not the same as it was now that you're gone
I wouldn't know you if I saw you
Cause your not the same as I thought all along
I never meant to limit what you might achieve
With small imagination
We get so much happiness
This I believe
Trying gets too hard when you're running on your knees
And we're racing to the end of what will never be
You'll find me at the end of the trail
Of what I cannot be
I should have gone to California
But it's not the same as it was now that you're gone
I wouldn't know you if I saw you
Cause your not the same as I thought all along
You only showed us what you wanted us to know
At a time when we were both alive, maybe 1985?
We all thought you would survive, like 1999
How could I have ever known that you'd be the first to go
One last time, you'd steal the show
Say it isn't so
I should have gone to California
But it's not the same as it was now that you're gone
I wouldn't know you if I saw you
Cause your not the same as I thought all along