California dreamer   Tell me why did you go   I carved your ever fading figure   In to the ever dying snow      I'll be around, I'll be around, I'll be around   Like a teenager in town   Where all the other young lovers are found      And I think I might have heard you on the radio   But the radio waves were like snow      And you were dreaming of Los Angeles   While I was singing songs you wrote   You quietly gave away the winter clothes I made for you   While I made angels in the snow      And I would have looked if you'd just asked me to   Or come to me before the preacher   Now you're a survivor      And I just thought I might have heard you on the radio   But the radio waves were like snow   I thought I might have heard you on the radio   But the radio waves were like snow      Until the young stay pretty, 'till the pretty stay quick   You know, but you never surrender   The city doesn't belong to you anymore   California dreamer      You dream of seasons that never die   You go to oceans that never touch the ice   You dream of seasons that never die   You go to oceans that never touch the ice   You dream of seasons that never die   You go to oceans that never touch the ice   Surrender this city to sender   Creatures getting younger and younger      And I think I might have heard you on the radio   But the radio waves were like snow   Oh I think I might have heard you on the radio   But the radio waves were like snow      Until the young stay pretty, 'till the pretty stay quick   You know, but you never surrender   The city doesn't belong to you anymore   California dreamer      I'll be around, I'll be around, I'll be around   Like a teenager in town   With all the other young lovers their mothers may have found   California dreamer