California from Furious Joy by Billy Shaddox

I saw sunrise from your mountains
A light that bathed me in your sage
You’re not quite how I remember
But I forgive your need to change

All the inland hills and valleys
A place my mother used to roam
And carried me before I understood
That this would come to be my home

Take me back in California
I don’t know just why I run
Away from everything that made me
Into the person I’ve become

How could you grow me and not offer
A warning of the consequence
When the path away allured me
I knew not to what expense

I’ll drag my feet across your desert
Wash my sorrow in your rain
When the ocean takes my body
The waves will know my song of praise

Take me back in California
I don’t know just why I run
Away from everything that made me
Into the person I’ve become
Into the person I’ve become
Into what I might become

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