Southern California Is Your Girlfriend - Indigo Girls

I caught every red light on the way to catch you

But that train’s pulled out, been long gone anyway

There was no note in frost on the window

Second thoughts or hidden signs

It’s not like you stole off in the night

From the weight of something you just couldn’t bear

You were never trying to elude me

You just had your plans and they didn’t include me

Southern California is your girlfriend

The sunny twist of Venice Chez-Jay some gay not all the way

Here I stand Midwestern corn fed squinting down the track

It’s time to unpack

I know what it means now, that je ne seis quoi

It means something taught you not to tell

Soon enough the air of your mystery

Is choked with the poisonous mix of your history

Southern California is your girlfriend

The sunny twist of Venice Chez Jay some gay not all the way

Here I stand Midwestern corn fed staring down the track

It is time to unpack

The ferris wheel were the tourist go

The late night deals behind the Loews

The hopeful stunner who takes your order

Your last chance mojo south of the border

There’s a soldier on leave in a foreign land

There’s a girl who dreams of lands across the sea

The postcard pictures are rare and exotic

The hum of the engines is deep and hypnotic