California Country - I See Hawks in L.A.

I am a child of the golden state
Grew up in the orchards and fields
Seen farm towns become commuter alleys
Seen shopping malls eat up the trees
Sometimes I wish for a simpler time
When you could drink right out of the stream
The loneliness around me
Freeways just surround me
I'm thirty miles from a field of green
But I'm still standing in california country
My dad moved us to victorville in June of '82
All summer long I traversed the mojave
Went swimming in the river water pool
On a beautiful farm sloping down to the river
September I was back in school
The bulldozers stripped the topsoil
Little flags marked the mile
I never crossed that river again
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Here I land with no plan
And only now I understand
That I could never leave this land
I'm a california man
Solo
Well the radio announced the annual meteor shower starting late tonight
So we drove up to 2 to the angeles crest to get out of the city light
The traffic jam started down in glendale
Lit the mountains bright as day
We turned the car the other way
Headed back to l
A
Disappeared into the streets
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