Stone rider coming baby
Califia is her name
Some call her California baby
She’ll break just the same
she’ll break just the same
she’ll break just the same
Rock and grills
mountains and hills
they won’t last they won’t last
Your building’s tall very tall
your people small very small
they won’t last they won’t last
they won’t last they won’t last
Stone rider coming baby
Califia is her name
Some call her California baby
She’ll break just the same
she’ll break just the same
she’ll break just the same
Stone rider coming baby
Califia is her name
Some call her California baby
She’ll break just the same
she’ll break just the same
she’ll break just the same
Male:
I was born and running wild
a victim of a woman child
She caused the death of three young men
I killed them all and would again
They tried to touch my sweet Violet
I put them in the ground
and there they are yet
And every night I sit and listen
why my mind runs
I see her face I hear her voice
and nearly come undone
She sings
Female:
Chico come on home
Chico come on home
Chico come on home
You’ve been gone way too long
Male:
My souls locked in a private hell
my body is in a prison cell
My mind’s a jungle full of fire
my heart’s a dungeon of desire
I kiss these prison walls so cold and wet
pretending they’re the lips of Violet
And every night I sit and listen
why my mind runs
I see her face I hear her voice
and nearly come undone
She keeps singing
Female:
Chico come on home
Male:
Yeah babe
Female:
Chico come on home
Chico come on home
You’ve been gone way too long
Yesterday was blue child
'cause I never knew child
Today I found you child
now I know what I gonna do child
Gonna get next to you child
I wanted to die child
Don’t you ask me why child
Then you walked by child
now I know what I gonna do child
I’m gonna get next to you child
Wake up each morning
and that old sun shines on through
You caused a shake up
and I can’t forget about you
You're the best I’ve seen child
Now don’t you be mean child
Come and share my dream child
Now you know what I gonna do child
I’m gonna get next to you child
Wake up each morning
and that old sun shines on through
you caused a shake up
and I can’t forget about you
You're the best I’ve seen child
Now don’t you be mean child
Come and share my dream child
Now you know what I gonna do child
Gonna get next to you child
I’m gonna get next to you child
Gonna get next to you child
Gonna get next to you child
In the waking hours of some not too distant morning
you come walking barefoot to this cowl pulled mind
selling yesterday's dreams wrapped in tomorrow's paper
whistling for a dog named kindness that you'll never find
It's a cold, hard world love
these are cold hard times
these are cold hard times
Standing in some narrow space you'll hear your mother crying
for the thoughts she had and didn't use and now they're gone
and your father is still out back he's selling and he's buying
there's nothing he can give you 'cause he's never once been wrong
It's a cold, hard world love
these are cold hard times
these are cold hard times
I heard my brother died last week or was it just a rumor
from an overdose of hate taken in his veins
I heard the preachers said God must have a sense of humor
'cause when they put him in the grave it didn't even rain
It's a cold, hard world love
these are cold hard times
these are cold hard times
these are cold hard times
And you wake up one morning and you say
I feel good I don’t miss her I can live without her
And you soon learn that time will come
But it wasn’t that day
A bird can fly on just one wing
But then why should he?
Where there’s sky there must be rain
Where there’s you there’s me
So do it all get it done be all there is to be
Than wrap yourself in something warm
And come on, come on
Come on home to me
Love can die and never know
What it might have bin
You and I will never know
until we try again
So do it all get it done see all there is to see
Than wrap yourself in something warm
And come on, come on
Come on home to me
