California After Dark

Palm trees moving in the headlights

Pool water glowing blue

You said the city looked better at midnight

I said maybe you did too

We stood barefoot on the balcony

Listening to somebody’s radio You kissed me like tomorrow Was somewhere neither

of us needed to go

We were beautiful in the darkness

We were perfect from far away

California after dark

Everything looks better than it is You and me beneath the stars

Making promises we never meant California after dark

I could almost believe in us But morning always tells the truth

And morning’s coming up

Hotel curtains moving in the breeze

Your shirt across the floor

We kept talking until sunrise

Just to avoid what we knew before

You said, “Don’t make this complicated” I said,

“I’m not trying to”

Funny how the simplest thing Can hurt the most when it’s true

California after dark

Everything looks better than it is You and me beneath the stars

Making promises we never meant California after dark

I could almost believe in us But morning always tells the truth

And morning’s coming up

(morning is coming)

Don’t turn the lights on

Let me keep pretending

Just a little longer

That this has a different ending

California after dark

Everything looks beautiful from here You and me beneath the stars Disappearing

when the sky gets clear California after dark

For a moment we were enough But morning always tells the truth

And morning’s catching up

The sun comes up…

And there

we

are.