Dm                        Am
  I'm coming home from my hardest year
Dm                        Am
  I'm making plans not to make plans while I'm here

[Pre-Chorus]
Dm                  C            G            Am      G
  And this life has been no holiday, a complicated situation
Dm              C           G                  Am     G
  I'm fine with all my memories, still I could use vacation

[Chorus]
    F       C    G     Am
It's Christmas in California
G        F          C           G          Am     G       F
And it's hard to ignore that it feels like summer all the time
    C        G             Am      G
But I'll take a west coast winter to
F            C       G                  Dm
 remove my splinters; it's good to be alive
Am                    Dm     Am
     it's good to be alive

[Verse]
Dm                       Am
  I'm coming home to the lights and buzz
Dm                             Am
  Streets look the same, still nothing's as it was

[Pre-Chorus]
Dm             C                  G          Am    G
  This place is paradise I'm sure, here's my reservation
Dm            C                 G            Am       G
  I've gotten lost here once before inside a good vibration

[Chorus]
F           C    G     Am
It's Christmas in California
G        F          C           G          Am     G       F
And it's hard to ignore that it feels like summer all the time
    C        G             Am      G
But I'll take a west coast winter to
F              C      G
  remove my splinters,
                  Dm C  G
it's good to be alive
                  Dm C  G
It's good to be alive
                  Dm C  G  Am G F
E|t's| good to be ali----------ve

[Bridge]
      C           Gm
And time, time it stops for no one
      F                            C
The seasons come and go and that's just time
     Gm
Yeah time it stops for no one
    F
The seasons keep on going
Am/C
Whether or not we're blind

C  Gm  F    C/E

[Chorus]
F           C    G     Am
It's Christmas in California
G        F          C           G          Am     G       F
And it's hard to ignore that it feels like summer all the time
    C        G             Am      G
But I'll take a west coast winter to
F              C      G
  remove my splinters,
                  Dm C  G
it's good to be alive
                  Dm C  G
It's good to be alive
                  Dm C  G  Am G F
E|t's| good to be ali-------------ve