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California I Love You

from Let's Be Brave by Rain Perry

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In the tradition of Lucinda Williams’ “Jackson” and Michelle Shocked’s “Come a Long Way,” “California I Love You” is a love song for the flawed and spectacular Golden State.

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California I Love You
Words by Rain Perry
Music by Rain Perry & Mark Hallman
©2019 Precipitous Music/BMI & Blue Racer Music/BMI

California I love you from the redwoods to the sea
From the streets of Bakersfield to the trails of Yosemite
The bells of the missions ring in the air
Under the banner of our lost grizzly bear

California I love you and your little bungalows
Orange tree in the backyard under mountains capped with snow
For Okies and Arkies and Exodusters of old
Fleeing to a better life on the Mother Road

From a hangar in Playa Vista to a garage in San Jose
Misfits with a motto – “find a better way”
Skaters in the swimming pools – dirtbags on the wall
Test pilots above the desert – I love you all

California I love you – though you break my heart
You’re a plane wreck at Los Gatos – you’re a child in Manazanar
You’re the dream of a summer killed in the fall
In a house up a canyon and inside City Hall

You’ve given me everything, oh land of extremes
Land of reinvention – land of broken dreams
The water that we worry for – the earthquake that we fear
The brushfire and the flood we call seasons around here

California I love you and I’ll always be true
Like all the other seekers I pledge myself to you
Turn me into something that I wasn’t before
That’s my prayer facing west from the California shore

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from Let's Be Brave, released April 26, 2019
Rain Perry: vocals
Mark: drums, basses, acoustic and elec guitar, Hammond B3, synthesizer

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Rain Perry Ojai, California

Rain Perry’s “Beautiful Tree” was the theme for the CW Network’s Life Unexpected, on which she also had the surreal pleasure of appearing as herself. She has released four albums on her own Precipitous Records, as well as writing and touring a solo play about her childhood. In 2016 she completed The Shopkeeper, her first film. She teaches a series of classes called Songwriting for Civilians. ... more

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