LYRIC FOR SALE

By Janice Marie Foote

Goodbye San Francisco...
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Verse 1:
I traveled across many bridges of change
Cutting through hills in the heart of your city
Where I danced around inside barefoot dreams
On your sandy shores under golden sunbeams

Verse 2:
Love, I dreamt my life upon a patch of green
With patchouli wafting in your breeze
On neverending days that held no cares
As bay winds blew through my wild hair
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Evolving Chorus 1:
How I missed the days of my carefree youth
When living and loving was my truth

Love, the moon was high and so was I
But it was time for me to say goodbye
Find my soul a brand new home
I don't know when
I don't know where
I don't know why

All I knew was
It was time for me to say
Goodbye San Francisco
'Cause my time there had passed me by
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Verse 3:
I walked down streets wearing a diadem
Thick skin growing around my delicate bones
No longer afraid of life's sticks and stones
'Cause they could only break me if I let them

Verse 4:
Love, I soon found your city of hippied beads
No longer strung the hues of my dreams
And time was splitting at its torn seams
Inside life's swinging pendulum of needs
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Evolving Chorus 2:
Yeah those were the days of my misspent youth
When living and loving was my truth

Love, the moon was high and so was I
But it was time for me to say goodbye
Find my soul a brand new home
I don't know when
I don't know where
I don't know why

All I knew was
It was time for me to say
Goodbye San Francisco
'Cause my time there had passed me by
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Verse 5:
I was young and twisting in the winds then
Slick riding fast days that had no end
Time tattooed a rainbow across my heart
Till the hands of truth tore my story apart

Verse 6:
Love, I wish I knew where I was headed
So there'd be an answer to every question
That echoed inside a billion head voices
Within a world selling us a million choices
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Evolving Chorus 3:
Long gone were the days of my wild youth
When living and loving was my truth

Love, the moon was high and so was I
But it was time for me to say goodbye
Find my soul a brand new home
I don't know when
I don't know where
I don't know why

All I knew was
It was time for me to say
Goodbye San Francisco
'Cause my time there had passed me by
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Verse 7:
I took a Greyhound rolling on until all was gone
Gazing out windows singing one last song
The moon hung long above the Golden Gate
Going from Fog City to Manhattan's state

Verse 8:
Love, I soon hustled years on Gotham City streets
My feet fast walking sun-bleached concrete
Strolling down sidewalks shadowed by skyrise
Pulling down dreams from its promising skies
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Evolving Chorus 4:
So far gone were the days of my eternal youth
When living and loving was my truth

Love, the moon was high and so was I
But it was time for me to say goodbye
Find my soul a brand new home
I don't know when
I don't know where
I don't know why

All I knew was
It was time for me to say
Goodbye San Francisco
'Cause my time there had passed me by
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Outro Lyrics:
Love, the time had come
For me to finally say

Goodbye San Francisco
How I loved you and lived you
With your winding streets
Wrapped around my heartbeat

Oh yeah, my love
It was time for me to say
Goodbye San Francisco
'Cause my time there had passed me by

So goodbye San Francisco
Goodbye San Francisco (repeat into fade)
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... jmf (c) ...