California (if you go)

from Making Friends with Ghosts by Kristen Leigh

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lyrics

You want to go nowhere -
I don’t know where that is.
My heart is calling me to a place,
any place but this.
Babe and I’m sorry
for all the lines I let you draw,
but I’m in a box now,
and the only way that’s left for me is the door.

Took to the highway thinking I would fly
out on the West coast
where the sunset burns my eyes.
I must’ve lost myself on the side of the road,
or somewhere in your kiss,
feeling so off now
but I don’t recall anything I miss.

If you go to California
don’t forget to bring yourself,
you won’t find it somewhere out there,
you won’t find it somewhere else.

I was a child once,
with a heart as wide and restless as the sea
Dreams were like water drops on an endless wave,
crashing over me
But I am the desert now and I don’t recall anything I miss,
only a memory of a time I thought I was more than this,

And if you go to California
don’t forget to bring yourself,
you won’t find it anywhere out there,
you won’t find it somewhere else.

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from Making Friends with Ghosts, released August 20, 2010
Featuring Ueli Schweizer on violins, and Justin Dickson on trumpet.

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Kristen Leigh North Carolina

North Carolina native Kristen Leigh's music blurs the lines between genres and styles, drawing from a diverse range of influences to produce unique, folk-based compositions with orchestral arrangements that are at once playful, provocative, and prophetic. Her emotionally honest lyrics explore themes like vulnerability, poverty, grief, redemption, disillusionment, courage, love, and defiant hope. ... more

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