well just look at that girl
with the lights coming up in her eyes
shes gotta be somebody's baby
she must be somebody's baby
cause all the guys on the corner
stand back and let her walk on by

i say shes gotta be somebody's baby
she must be somebody's baby
shes gotta be somebody's baby
cause shes so fine

shes probably somebody's only light
gonna shine tonight

I suppose that there's no way
To break a broken heart
But you've been gone I don't know how long
I waited with open arms

Would you please put out your cigarette?
Cause the guest is getting sick of it
And you are acting like an idiot
Oh, won't you please put out your cigarette?, oh

And once I tried to close my eyes
And I thought you disappeared

Burn me down if that's how everything's gonna start
With the flames from the heat off the look on your face
On a day like today could have made out every
Raindrop falling down on you head

Now I fear that I may taste these tears rolling down my face
And realize something is wrong
With the light of the sun and the color of the sky
With you and everyone

This time I'll get so down
My own two feet won't stand on concrete ground
I see it caving in from all around

I may not look the same
I'll smile and chat and answer to my name
But if I'm back I don't deserve the rain

Oh that's what you get that's what you get that's all
Oh that's what you get that's what you get that's all
Oh that's what you get that's what you get that's all

It cursed us all on our way home
We passed the sights like passing stones
And I will never go back there again
The tourists and the army men
The prostitutes this evening
Will start to sink under my skin
The dust and sand is what they sell
The flashing lights and ringing bells
A wish as far as I can tell
Inside this dried up wishing well
He is the shrieks I am the fear

Your crash is waiting to happen
And you you're dragging me down

All over again
I give in I give up

You splashed but you started sinking
And you you're dragging me down

All over again
I give up
I give in
I give up

You are crowding me in I want to get out
This is the end all over again
You're crowding me in I just want to get out
This is the end all over again

Everything is ok everything is fine
I give you everything you ask for don't be so unkind
Well every time you're mad about every little thing
But it's too soon to pull out or pull out that wedding ring
I'm so ready I'm not ready
This little boy is running right back home
I guess it's nobody's fault now but my own
Never had the patience never had the time

Well let me tell you I have seen a monster age of seventeen
Who'll let you in to kick you out and knows what love is "all about"

Hey now girl I see you walking by
And long ago you used to stop and talk now you just wink your eye
and I'm surprised you look all grown up
A champagne glass next to a paper cup
I stopped you just to say it
Hey now girl

Here they come the business men like a herd of cattle rumbling in
The exchange has officially begun
Now all the offices are buzzing the executives are busy bees
They watch the gears turn in the employees
They just Turn Smile Shift Repeat
There's a crowd forming on Wallstreet near the tallest building on the block
A suit has lost his fortune to the stocks

Oh yeah it started today in a cloud If I was the sun I would shout
I've got so much shining left before I'm out
Yeah it began with a spark then a flame grew into a fire and spread out again
And I just woke up here surrounded by the whole thing

Well, we have got to get out of here
In our darkest hour
When we may not make it

I can't see a thing through the smoke and if I could breathe

I woke up today a song was swimming in my head
And I hummed it to myself as I got out of bed
And on the way to take a shower it all just dawned on me
That a song like this just might go down in history
I quickly ran back to get my guitar
A pen and some paper

'Cause this whole world needs an Anthem
And I'm trying to put the words where they belong
Yeah this whole world needs an Anthem

Goodness sometimes things get bad
But I swear
I'm doing all I can
So try all you want to
I'm gonna try too

If I get one ray of sunlight to hold in my hand
Maybe we can be happy again
I'll try for one ray of sunlight to hold in my hand
Maybe we can be happy and then...

Things don't go as I planned
But I swear I'm doing all I can
So try all you want to
I'm gonna try too

I could tell from the minute I woke up
It was going to be a lonely lonely
lonely lonely day.
Rise and shine rub the sleep out of my eyes
And try to tell myself I can't
go back to bed
It's gonna be a lonely lonely lonely lonely day.
Even though the sun is shining down on me and I should feel about as happy as can be
I just got here and I already want to leave

Everybody in this place can up and move away
For all I care this town's already dead and empty
I'm told that I'm a victim of obsession
That's what my friends say
Oh I'm a fool for having ever let her tempt me

Well I turn pale when she walks by
I am lost in her eyes
She is always on my mind
She is always on my mind

She glances over but she keeps on walking down that street

We've been on the run
Driving in the sun
Looking out for #1
California here we come
Right back where we started from

Hustlers grab your guns
Your shadow weighs a ton
Driving down the 101
California here we come
Right back where we started from

California!
Here we come!

On the stereo
Listen as we go
Nothing's gonna stop me now
California here we come
Right back where we started from