[Chorus]

I call my baby "California" so I don't have to choose

Acid tests and native grass, and you were out here too

I never knew how caught I was, 'til the breaks they cut me loose

So I call my first love "California," and I don't wanna choose

[Verse]

I see you in the pretty things that spring up from the dirt

Desert trees for you and me, you're sleeping in my shirt

And when I'm cold and lonely, all your love will get me through

'Cause just like California, I breathe the magic air in you

Blowing in the wind, oh it's you

Up the mountain land, yeah it's you

[Chorus]

I call my baby "California" so I don't have to choose

Acid tests and native grass, and you were out here too

I never knew how caught I was, 'til the breaks they cut me loose

So I call my first love "California," and I don't wanna choose