California English

C C C
Wouldn’t ever gag you with a spoon, my only true love
C C C
Never really heard you speak that way, it’s unworthy of…
C C C
Funny how that little college girl called language corrupt
C C C
Funny how the other private schools had no Hapa Club

C C C
Someone took a trip before you came to ski in the Alps
C C C
Your father moved across the country just to sunburn his scalp
C C C
Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, contradict what I say
C C C                                              F
Living like the French Connection, but we’ll die in A

Em              G           C                   F
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Em                  G                 C           F
Through the condo that they’ll never finish
Em                 G          C              F
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
      Em                  G           C          C C C
And through your brain to California English


C C C
No one sits inside a freezing flat and stays there ‘til May
C C C
Leafing through a stack of A-Zs to surf the UK
C C C
Waiting with the wind against your face and gel in your hair
C C C                                               F
Shivering in little undershirts, but don’t seem to care

Em              G           C                   F
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Em                  G                 C           F
Through the condo that they’ll never finish
Em                 G          C              F
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
      Em                  G           C          C C C
And through your brain to California English

G
Sweet carob rice cake
           F             C
She don’t care how the sweets taste
F
Fake Philly cheese steak
             Em      C
But she use real toothpaste

F
Cuz if that Tom’s don’t work
Em
If it just makes you worse
F                             G            C
Would you loose all of your faith in the good earth

F
And if it’s all a curse
Em
And we’re just getting worse
F                            G                C
Baby, please don’t lose your faith in the good earth

Em              G           C                   F
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Em                  G                 C           F
Through the condo that they’ll never finish
Em                 G          C              F
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
      Em                  G           C          C C C
And through your brain to California English