
SOMEWHERE IN SANTA MONICA
[Chorus]
Somewhere in Santa Monica you left me.
Somewhere in Santa Monica you leave.
It's as universal as the shoreline
stained and rinsed by the sea.
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[Verse]
Somewhere in Santa Monica,
rolling a cigarette,
you're recruiting some new love
at the All Night Laundromat.
You sit with them
just like you sat with me.
Still I don't regret
getting caught in that routine.
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[Chorus]
Somewhere in Santa Monica you left me.
Somewhere in Santa Monica you leave.
It's as universal as the shoreline
stained and rinsed by the sea.
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[Verse]
Sometimes I think I hear your laugh,
sarcastic and shrill,
like when we used to make our rounds
drunk on the boardwalk pier.
Tourists were easy money
and easy was your way.
But sadly you moved on somewhere
and somewhere's so far away.
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[Chorus]
Somewhere in Santa Monica you left me.
Somewhere in Santa Monica you leave.
It's as universal as the shoreline
stained and rinsed by the sea.
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[Bridge]
I still think about
that dead-end pier,
a retired and worn out
American highway.
It was loved hard
then put to sleep,
with so much more to say.
We were never
good at talking
but when you said goodbye
I knew I'd often see you
in strangers walking by.
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[Chorus]
Somewhere in Santa Monica you left me.
Somewhere in Santa Monica you leave.
It's as universal as the shoreline
stained and rinsed by the sea.
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[Verse]
Somewhere in Santa Monica
I'm picturing the ways
your hair flows down, in curls of brown
and drowns your desert face.
Somewhere in Santa Monica
you’re sticking out your thumb
at them, at him, at those city kids
you love so much.
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