Soft clouds all drift away
Bright sunshine never stays
Warm afternoons turn
Fair to Midland is all that I need
If I had
Here I sit all alone
Just a wonderin' why
You must have
If teardrops were diamonds
And only mine were used
They could pave
There's no such thing
As tears or heartache
There's no such thing
As
This place will tell you lies
With each passing shadow
That goes
I've been stayin' up late
Just a thinkin' about
Ways to get
when you give it up for gone
but you're still digging
In the late great golden state
It's getting hard to negotiate
When
Trains and boats and planes
Are passing by,
Could mean a trip
To