Don't know what I was looking for when I went home, I found me alone   And sometimes I need someone to say   "You'll be all right, what's on your mind?"   But the water's shallow here and I am full of fear   And empty handed after two long years      Another sunny day in California   I'm sure back home they'd love to see it   But they don't know that what you love is ripped away   Before you get a chance to feel it      Back home I always thought I wanted so much more, now I'm not too sure   'Cause sometimes I miss knowing someone's there for me and feelin' free   Free to stand beside the ocean in moonlight   And light myself a smoke beneath the dark Atlantic sky      Another sunny day in California   I'm sure back home they'd love to see it   But they don't know that what you love is ripped away   Before you get a chance, before you get a chance to feel it      Everybody here is livin' life in fear of fallin' out of line   Tearin' lives apart and breakin' lots of hearts just to pass the time   And the eyes get red in the back of your head   This place will make you blind, put it all behind me and I'll be just fine      Another sunny day beneath this cloudless sky   Sometimes I wish that it would rain here   And wash away the west coast dreamin' from my eyes   There's nothin' real for them to see here      Another starry night in California   I'm sure back home they'd love to see it   But they don't know that what you love is ripped away   Before you get a chance, before you get a chance to feel it