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California

Bruce Springsteen

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California

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Well you know when you're young there's such a distance between you and your familyYou just can't see things from the same point of viewPapa wants a lawyer and mama she wants an authorAnd all you want is for them to want youWell, I saw lot of bad signs and we had some real bad times back on the east coast.And I guess you could say it took California to bring us closeThere was a lot of hard livin' and some stone cold women on the east coastAnd I saw my papa turn away when I need him mostAnd California, she's an angel oh so heavenly dressedAnd the Pacific she's a woman The Lord must have loved her bestI've got a California rainbow come give them thunder clouds a restOh and the mountain is my friend now, she put me to her testWell you know every father has dreams and schemes fo his own kidAnd dreaming it ain't been declaired no capital crimeBut I just hope when I grow up to have my own kidsThat I'll love them all I can and let 'em make their own mindsNow you know how a mother can hold the son through understandingAnd my father he once held me close by cryingWhoa, and my mama's love it don't ever leave me standingAnd papa's love it just leaves me smilingWhoa, and my mama she's a rainbow,gotta see hen on Sunday when she's dressedWhoa, and my papa he's a good man, he gives me and mama his bestWhoa, my mama she's a rainbow, come to give them thunder clouds a restAnd my family is my friend now California put us through her test
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