If it all was a dream,
Then it was worth the memories
If I don't make it out alive,
Then know that this got the best of me
My knuckles are white,
But I can't get a grip
If it's the last song I write,
I'll make all the words

Fit from the roof of this house,
I watch the sun go down
On the time that I've cursed since I turned 16
A set of keys,
I was California dreamin'
Drive, just drive

And I've been saying that I changed my ways
And "someday" seems to be
My favorite word lately
And love had it's hand out, but I pushed it away
And I damned myself for the words
I didn't say
And all the things I said I wouldn't do,
I've done
When things get hard,
All I think to do is run
But all I want
Is something to call my own

I let my heart, whoa, get the best of me this time
I lost myself
And all that matter most to me
But one thing doesn't make a man
One thing doesn't make a man

I can't believe all the things that I've seen
I was moving so fast,
Forgot to take it all in
It's the sad times and tears,
And being alone
That makes you think of the times
That matter most
And now it's five years later,
And I'm still all alone
My closest thing to a friend,
Put a dime in a payphone
And now I'm feeling all the pain that I've caused
Behind this broken down piano
In the back of this bar

So this is California
The sun still sets the exact same way as back home
On that rooftop,
The sun still sets the same
The sun still sets the same

I let my heart, whoa, get the best of me this time
I lost myself
And all that matter most to me
But one thing doesn't make a man
One thing doesn't make a man

The lies I told, the hearts I broke
The feelings I had, I never told
The tip of my tongue, fingertips
Turns at every word I must have missed
Forgot to mention when I lived back home
And now I'm going back to the only thing I ever knew

Whoa, oh get the best of me this time
I lost myself
And all that matter most to me
But one thing doesn't make a man

I let my heart, whoa, get the best of me this time
I lost myself
And all that matter most to me
But one thing doesn't make a man
One thing doesn't make a man