Lyrics Copyright © Wendell G. Sweet 2011 ♪ ♫ ♪ Date Written; 08-06-2011
Song Title: California Calling Style: Rock / Alt
Verse One:
Waiting on your doorstep … Oh I'm a sorry man...
What will be tomorrow... Tell me if you can...
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I know that life is calling... Don't leave me behind...
In all the world there's no one left for me... to find...
Hook #1
But you're thinking it over... such a sad sad day...
Thinking it over... Will you go or stay...
California's calling... Leave on a Saturday...
Have your new life in your hands by Monday...
It's so far from a sunny day...
Verse Two:
California's calling... Feel you have to go...
Leave behind the cold and snow... For something you think you know...
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California's calling... Ain't no more to say...
Nothing here but rain and cold... You need your sunny day...
Hook #2
But you're thinking it over... Such a sad sad day...
Thinking it over... Nothing's in your way...
California's calling... Oh what a sorry day...
Tried to make you see... But there ain't no way...
It's so hard to see beyond today...
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Instrumental-------------------------------Slow to acoustic single--------------------------
Verse Three:
Waiting on your doorstep... Oh what a sorry day...
What will be tomorrow... Need your sunny day...
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California's calling... Must be on your way...
Have your new life in your hands by... Monday...
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Hook #3
Tell me you're thinking it over... It's such a long, long way...
You're thinking it over... And there's nothing I can say...
So much ice between us... Oh I'm a sorry man...
What will be tomorrow... Tell me if you can...
It's so far from a sunny day... So far from a sunny day...
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Instrumental------------------------------ Slow to opening tempo and single acoustic to out ---
Verse Four:
I am nearly freezing... Open up and let me in...
Cold out here without you... Where do I fit in...
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Yeah I am barely breathing... Waiting on your love...
Traveling with the sun across the sky... so far above...
Xtro
But you're... Thinking it over...
Oh what a sorry day...
But you're... thinking it over...
Need your sunny day...
Yeah you're thinking it over... … … ...
Why I Wrote It:
I am in the middle of writing a book about Jesus. So, I am only writing Christian Lyrics because that is where my head is at.. But I'm not writing those lyrics out because I don't want them to influence what I'm writing book wise... Maybe they will become another play. When I was writing manuscripts regularly I rarely wrote lyrics at all. But, occasionally a set would show up and be so strong that I had to write it out. That's what California Calling is... A concept of leaving New York for Golden California has been kicking around in my head for awhile. After I finished my manuscript writing for the day today a snatch of lyric was kicking around in my head... “I am nearly freezing... Open up and let me in”
I wrote it down and as soon as I did the rest of the song showed up. It happens that way a lot. The song wrote itself in just a couple of minuets. It's likable, to me anyway.
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