I'm coming home from my hardest year    I'm making plans not to make plans while I'm here    And this life has been no holiday, a complicated situation    I'm fine with all my memories    Still I could use vacation       It's Christmas in California    And it's hard to ignore that it feels like summer all the time    But I'll take a west coast winter to remove my splinters       It's good to be alive    It's good to be alive       I'm coming home to the lights and buzz    Streets look the same, still nothing's as it was    This place is paradise I'm sure, here's my reservation    I've gotten lost here once before    Inside a good vibration       It's Christmas in California    And it's hard to ignore that it feels like summer all the time    But I'll take a west coast winter to remove my splinters       It's good to be alive    It's good to be alive    It's good to be alive       And time, time it stops for no one    The seasons come and go and that's just time    Yeah time it stops for no one    The seasons keep on going    Whether or not we're blind       Christmas in California    And it's hard to ignore that it feels like summer all the time    But I'll take a west coast winter to remove my splinters       It's good to be alive    It's good to be alive    It's good to be alive