California Snow-Dave Alvin

[ti:California Snow] [ar:Dave Alvin] [al:The Best Of The HighTone Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]California Snow - Dave Alvin [00:12.86]I'm just trying make a living [00:15.42] [00:16.60]I'm an old man at 39 [00:18.85] [00:20.35]My two kids and my ex wife [00:22.36] [00:23.04]Moved up to river side [00:24.85] [00:26.70]I'm workin' down on the border [00:28.44]Drivin' back roads every night [00:31.34] [00:33.20]Mountains east of El Cajon [00:35.39] [00:36.03]North of the Tecate line [00:38.50] [00:40.57]Where the California summer sun [00:43.21] [00:44.16]Burn right through your soul [00:46.38] [00:49.35]In the winter you can freeze to death [00:51.53] [00:52.06]In the California snow [00:54.59] [01:00.97]I catch the ones I'm able to [01:02.74] [01:03.36]And watch the others slip away [01:05.70] [01:07.38]I know some by their faces [01:09.09] [01:10.02]And I even know some by name [01:11.80] [01:13.86]I guess they think that we're all [01:15.82]Movie stars and millionaires [01:18.62] [01:20.36]I guess that they still believe [01:22.60] [01:23.35]Dreams come true up here [01:25.46] [01:27.95]But I breath weather's warmer [01:30.46] [01:31.30]Down in Mexico [01:33.02] [01:36.80]And no one ever tells them 'bout the California snow [01:41.86] [01:48.20]Last winter I found a man and wife [01:50.73] [01:51.47]Just about daybreak [01:53.29] [01:54.78]Layin' in a frozen ditch [01:57.20]South of the interstate [01:59.23] [02:01.00]I wrapped 'em both in blankets [02:02.66] [02:03.89]But she'd already died [02:05.82] [02:07.60]The next day we sent him back alone [02:09.83] [02:10.51]Across the borderline [02:12.09] [02:15.18]I don't know where they came from [02:17.34] [02:18.43]Or where they planned to go [02:20.60] [02:23.95]But we carried her all night long [02:26.53]Through the California snow [02:28.90] [02:43.79]Sometimes when I'm alone out here [02:45.82]I get to thinkin' about my life [02:48.05] [02:50.10]Maybe I should go to River side [02:52.38]And try to fix things with my wife [02:54.52] [02:56.34]Or maybe just get in my truck [02:58.71]And drive as far as I can go [03:01.37] [03:02.82]Away from all the ghosts that haunt [03:05.40]The California snow [03:07.58] [03:10.26]Where the California summer sun [03:12.62] [03:13.47]Can burn right to your whole soul [03:15.82] [03:19.04]And in the winter you can freeze to death [03:21.09] [03:21.74]In the California snow [03:24.01] [03:30.62]And the winter you can freeze to death [03:33.06]In the California snow