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California Sunrise

by Ian Carlton

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1.
The morning sun is shining There ain't a cloud in the sky Today is gonna go all right It's a California sunrise I'm passing out at midnight Tomorrow's gonna be my time Wake up in time to see the light Of a California sunrise There's innocence writ large upon the face of this, our new beginning A whole new world, a whole new life, to lead and to live It's gonna go right this time, I can feel it in the air and in my heart Gotta trust it's gonna work out in the end The morning sun is shining There ain't a cloud in the sky Today is gonna go all right It's a California sunrise I'm passing out at midnight Tomorrow's gonna be my time Wake up in time to see the light Of a California sunrise The weeks are hard, the weekends worse, and if I care about the Earth it hurts We persevere, we'll see it through, what else are we supposed to do? The nights are dark, the hearts they break, don't know how much more I can take But together we can face it all The morning sun is shining There ain't a cloud in the sky Today is gonna go all right It's a California sunrise I'm passing out at midnight Tomorrow's gonna be my time Wake up in time to see the light Of a California sunrise The morning sun is shining There ain't a cloud in the sky Today is gonna go all right It's a California sunrise I'm passing out at midnight Tomorrow's gonna be my time Wake up in time to see the light Of a California sunrise The morning sun is shining There ain't a cloud in the sky Today is gonna go all right It's a California sunrise I'm passing out at midnight Tomorrow's gonna be my time Wake up in time to see the light Of a California sunrise I'm passing out at midnight Tomorrow's gonna be my time Wake up in time to see the light Of a California sunrise
2.
Call me Ishmael, I'll sail the seas for you Call me Orpheus, I'd walk through hell for you With only a lyre and a spear, I'll brave the deep So the night will fall and you can sleep I'm the Paris to your Helen of Troy But I hope that you don't read through to the end When the fates come and knock on the door And the ship it will sink And she's gone in a blink And I'm just another number of war And the day may come when I drift out to sea And there's nothing left that I can do Oh, give me a voice I'll say that I made a choice And it's only what I'd do for you But I hope that you don't read through to the end When the fates come and knock on the door And the ship it will sink And she's gone in a blink And I'm just another number of war And the day may come when I drift out to sea And there's nothing left that I can do Oh, give me a voice I'll say that I made a choice And it's only what I'd do for you
3.
Can't shake the feeling I done something I should not have done Yeah yeah Oh, I can't shake the feeling I said something I should not have said Yeah yeah And I'll try to make some sense of it all While I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall And I can't shake the feeling That I've never been so wrong We were made for each other I can see it every day Your beauty stands up in the sunlight I'm enraptured by your face These lies and others that I tell myself Just so I can make it through the day Will I stand up and face my own reality? Or will I hide my face and hope it goes away? 'Cause I can't shake the feeling I done something I should not have done Yeah yeah Oh, I can't shake the feeling I said something I should not have said Yeah yeah And I'll try to make some sense of it all While I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall And I can't shake the feeling That I've never been so wrong In this sea you are my lifeline We will hold each other from the fall Always on the brink of destruction But together we can stand and face it all I tank the hits for you daily Doing all I can to keep us safe The promise is that someday this will all be worth the pain But somehow that day it seems so far away Cause I can't shake the feeling I done something I should not have done Yeah yeah Oh, I can't shake the feeling I said something I should not have said Yeah yeah And I'll try to make some sense of it all While I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall And I can't shake the feeling That I've never been so wrong Can't shake the feeling I done something I should not have done Yeah yeah Oh, I can't shake the feeling I said something I should not have said Yeah yeah And I'll try to make some sense of it all While I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall And I can't shake the feeling That I've never been so wrong
4.
Oh, I've sailed away to an isle in the sea Where I can forget my woes I'll soak up the sun till the night has begun And go running with the sand between my toes Now back on the main, what awaits me is pain Under storm clouds of doom and gray But I'll savor the time that there's reason and rhyme What I searched for when I sailed away Here the end of the world is the waves on the shore And the start is the sun in the sky And once all aboard, leave your worries at the door 'Cause we don't want to bring down the vibe Oh, I've sailed away to an isle in the sea Where I can forget my woes I'll wax up my board, leave my shirt on the shore Paddle out get up and go with the flow [surf rock guitar lick] Now back on the main, what awaits me is pain Under storm clouds of doom and gray But I don't have to face with that cold, stiff embrace For at least another couple of days Here the end of the world is the waves on the shore And the start is the sun in the sky And once all aboard, leave your worries at the door 'Cause we don't want to bring down the vibe Oh, I've sailed away to an isle in the sea Where I can forget my woes I'll soak up the sun till the night has begun And go running with the sand between my toes Now back on the main, what awaits me is pain Under storm clouds of doom and gray But I'll savor the time that there's reason and rhyme What I searched for when I sailed away
5.
I lost my way tonight On my way to you And it felt so right And who knows where I've gone When the sunrise comes along I don't mean to run away From this life that's leading me But don't try and tell me that everything's fine I'm a long way from paradise I'm riding home tonight High above the clouds In the pale moonlight City sprawls along the bay Like a parasite grows on its prey I hear the traffic roar And the wind, it blows so cold Oh, the streetlights, they glow and they block out the stars And I'm a long way from paradise I never wanted to hurt you So I let you hurt me instead And I drove my body til my heart couldn't feel And that made it all right in my head And as the walls come crashing down And my home becomes my hell I can't believe I ever thought I could let you stay I'm all alone tonight And I lie in bed Staring at the sky The moon's tranquility It keeps my hope alive It's time to start again On a life that I can lead Oh, and maybe I'll see you on some sunny day Such a long way from paradise
6.
And I'll run until the world seems sane And I'll suffer 'til I don't feel the pain Feel the scars from all that I've been through The winding road that brought me close to you You can run your hands along my arms and down my knees and feel all the places where I've been knocked around The time I ran into a mailbox, or ate a sidewalk paving stone, or flubbed a stage dive and broke my nose, or how my right foot don't line up so straight no more Less obvious to the naked eye are the words that I have heard, the impressions that mankind has left on me Such images of cruelty, miscarriages of justice, it's enough to make a saner man give up and walk away But in my heart There's still a part Of me that thinks We can be saved And I will fight Through the darkest night And maybe we Can reach the dawn So I'll run until the world seems sane And I'll suffer 'til I don't feel the pain Feel the scars from all that I've been through The winding road that brought me close to you And I'll run until the world seems sane And I'll suffer 'til I don't feel the pain Feel the scars from all that I've been through The winding road that brought me close to you And I'll run until the world seems sane And I'll suffer 'til I don't feel the pain Feel the scars from all that I've been through The winding road that brought me close to you Feel the scars from all that I've been through The winding road that brought me close to you

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released July 12, 2020

Words and music by Ian Carlton
Performed by Ian Carlton and Liam McKay
Cover art by Keenan "viat0r" Hampton

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