All too often I set my life aside   All too often my dreams went sailing by   A chance of freedom, a chance of fate   A chance I'll take      Oh, leave it all to disappear   I'm heading anywhere but here      All too often the dreams I've dreamed have died   And all too often I'm never satisfied   A chance of freedom, a chance of fate   A chance I'll take      Oh, leave it all to disappear   I'm heading anywhere but here   Because I want a life, a souvenir   I'll find it anywhere but here      California is gonna be the place for me      Oh, leave it all to disappear   I'm heading anywhere but here   Because I want a life, a souvenir   I'll find it anywhere but here      I'll find it anywhere but here   I'm heading anywhere but here