Rainy Days In California

Days fly by me like dragons
Oil well fires and car tire smoke
Helicopter search lights through my window
These midnight mean streets ain't no joke
Listening to the sirens wail
Counting sheep to no avail
Traffic jammed from here to nowhere
The devil's claw marks point the way
There's not much shaking out on the fault line
Unless the big one comes today

If I go north straight up the 1
Destination Oregon
No need to leave the porch light on
I'll be long gone

Rainy days in California
Come too far and few for me
Rainy days in California
These desert towns don't feed my soul
I need to hear the thunder roll

As in some dark and tangled nightmare
I've lost all sense of time and place
I'm sure you must have seen me somewhere
'Cause I'm no stranger to disgrace

Ten bound east past Indio
Hammer down New Mexico
Airline Highway here I come
Gone and then some

Rainy days in California
Come too far and few between
Rainy days in California
Twenty years of endless drought
Hey, I can find my own way out

I'm headed off in search of rain
Way back down in the land of sugarcane