southern california

on the road to nowhere

every day was just the same

so i took my belongings

and hitchhiked no more to blame

to california

in the warm summer of love

all my life i been searching

all my life i been searching

i came to a crossroad

where a stranger gazed and spoke

he was looking kinda peculiar

in a purple coloured cloak

he wore a token

never seen before

he said: all my life i been searching

all my life i been searching

sunset in southern california

and the morning seems so far so far away

sunset in southern california

in the distance there's the light of san diego

i came to his temple at noon the second day

it was a lot of mumbling

in the shadows did they pray

feeling kind of dizzy

a gong struck and people chanted

all my life i been searching

all my life i been searching

then a kind of leader

appeared in fume and smoke

all dressed in silver

an authoritarian bloke

he turned around and talked to me

with a demagogic voice

all my life i been searching

all my life i been searching

in the distance there's the light of san diego