I met him on the edge of a good bye   i was standing there with no where left to fly   i was young but never green   a little wiser than my time it seemed   he told me bout the places we couldhide      wild and kind of crazy most of the time   my heart was hanging on his every line   i memorized his every thought   but the walls he had could never be brought down   and now he's not around   i guess i'm just another face left in the crowd      oh california   please come back to me   oh california   and who i want to be   live inside of me   i know you're lying somewhere in the arche or destiny    your memory is still eager here and i'll never set it free      oh california   please come back to me    oh california   who i want to be   lives inside of me   lives inside of me