California Dawn

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Maybe I'll take the coast road home (Whistling as I go)
Maybe I'll wake tonight (Groping in the dark)
Gliding down phosphorescing waves (With the sea aglow)
Epiphanic and bright (Till there comes a spark)

California dawn
I got so much riding on
California dawn
I got so much riding

Maybe I'll wake before too long (Maybe finally know)
Maybe break through tonight (Tripping in the dark)
Deep into trance on some moonlit dry lake (There comes a glow)
When there comes a light (When there comes a spark)

(How can you bear it?) California dawn
(How I could scream) We got so much riding on
(What this state?) California dawn
(Is this a dream?) Everybody's riding

Maybe I'll take the old road home (Whistling as I go)
Maybe I'll go tonight (Groping in the dark)
Talking in vanished tongues, in Esselen (Murmuring low)
Walking into the light (Will I leave a mark?)

(How can you bear it?) California dawn
(How I could scream) We got so much riding on
(What this state?) California dawn
(Is this a dream?) We got so much riding

(How can you bear it?) California dawn
(How I could scream) Everybody's riding on
(Everybody's riding)

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from Goodbye, Carbon, released April 1, 2012
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Written & produced by Goodbye, Carbon
String arrangements by Carla Capretto
Recorded, engineered & mixed by Pete Min
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine

Brad Miskell: vocals
Pete Min: guitars
Carla Capretto: keyboards, vocals

Daphne Chen: violin, viola
Bram Inscore: bass
Richard Dodd: cello

Recorded at Pete Min Studios

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