Southern California Lyrics

Southern California lyrics

(Billy Sherrill, George Richey, Sammy Lyons)

 

 (G.J.)

 You always  said someday you'd go to live

 (In Southern California)

 And me I'd stay right here in Tennessee

 

 You always talked about the better days

 (In Southern California)

 But if you'll stay in Tennessee

 I promise there'll be better days with me

 

 (T. W.)

 It's not that I don't love you

 But I hear the call

 (From Southern California)

 There's something I can't find in Tennessee

 

 Silver screens and limousines

 They wait for me in Southern California

  

 Though you've been so good to me

 The time has come you'll have to set me free

 

 (G.J.)

 Tomorrow when you leave

 You'll take my heart

 (To Southern California)

 But just remember I'll be here

 To keep your heart with me until you see

 

 (T.W.) speaks:

 Well, it's been five years

 N' I guess I've cried a million tears

 Lookin' out the window of this little room

 Right over that flashin' neon sign that says, "Bar"

 It's almost midnight,

 An time to go downstairs and go to work

 I wonder how he's doin' in, Tennessee?

  

 (G.J.) spoken:

 Well, here I sit by the window 

 Of this big old lonely mansion

 Lookin' out over the Smokies

 And on in everything I can see

 

 Oh, I guess by now she's found

 What she was lookin' for

 And as I look at this old faded photograph

 Of the girl that I still love

 I wonder if she ever, thinks of me

 

 (both)

 But the weather's good

 In Southern California.