April Smith & The Great Picture Show California Lyrics

All of these things that I wanted for you
You set out to find them and I hope that you do
But all that I hope for you
Is all that I fear

The thought of you leaving plays out in my head
Will you really do it or turn back instead?
When you realize that all you love is right here
You're fighting the feeling and a voice that keeps calling for you

What will it be, me or California?
Your eyes are not laughing now
I know it's no joke
Cause you've lost something in you since the last time we spoke
It's the thing I held on to
It's the thing that I loved you for

And now that I see it as it falls from your eyes
Will I just let it drop?
Cause I know now, I realize that it is not mine
You are not mine anymore And that you say to me, don't tell me I didn't warn you
Cause winter, it just isn't me, and I'm leaving for California

You have to go
You have to go
I hear it in your voice
Listen as it echoes
(x2)

Stop telling me and start walking away

And did you expect me to curl up and die
while you turn a promise into a lie?
Did it surprise you how easily I let you go?

It just wasn't meant
It must have been fate
Cause you realized but a second too late
That life without me was a life that you just didn't wanna know

And the words that I wished for
Darling I'm (something--I can't discern it) for ya
So get your ass on a plane
And I'll see you in California
(x2)