California

[Verse 1]
I watched as the sun came slowly rising
Laying waste all the damage from the night before
A blood-red knife as it cut the horizon
A warrior who can't find a war

[Chorus]
Don't look for pain in the faces that love California
Though you know that it's there by the way that they're pacing the floor
And don't look for love in the city of the fallen angels
Though I look for your face in every stranger that walks through the door

[Verse 2]
The sailors lay drunken against the bar
While the whores and the gamblers lay waste their pay
But I am no better than they are tonight
For misery's found company in shame

[Chorus]
And don't look for pain in the faces that love California
Though you know that it's there by the way that they've seen it all before
And don't look for love in the city of the fallen angels
Though I look for your face in every stranger that walks through the door

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
And such is the end of this windswept night
In this season called winter that knows no snow
A bird seeking shelter too late for flight
The dawn shows us mercilessly alone

[Chorus]
And don't look for pain in the faces that love California
Though you know that it's there by the way that they can't take no more
And don't look for love in the city of the fallen angels
Though I look for your face in every stranger that walks through the door
Though I look for your face in every stranger that walks through the door