Common amount of the time at home
Hardly a world on the telephone
Finally find the time to get to know ya

Mapping it out like a master plan
Something to do with my idle hands
Write you a letter addressed from California

Vivid and strong in my memory
Absence that smacks of abandoning
Led to the battle that ultimately destroyed us

Nothing if I don't know your mistakes
The pill is as bitter as I can take
Twists like a blade when I leave for California

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Hope that you know this is killing me
It's all in the name of the family
I only can play the cards the dealer dealt us

The end of the cycle is closing in
You I see new hope begin again
Suddenly seems to be promise in California

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Heavy as all this is weighing me
Believe in the words I am promising
I'm still here for her

Distance is only an obstacle
Hardly a match for a miracle
I'm finally ready to go to California