I eluded a tsunami
Saved a stick of your salami
Curse the day that I went making up your ring tone
And I maybe didn't make it
Flooding shook up my foundation
Zoom lens reflected in the inundation

The rain I thought was coming from above
Was coming from the side
Ways I went to find you in the rubble
The clock I found on top was floating--
And it wasn't sound--
I didn't hear another sound inside the dog pound

See me fleeing from the blood
Caused by earthquake off the California coast
And as a symbol I remembered from my old life

A corn dog shaped like California
(Nibbled on the pier by the bay)
A corn dog shaped like California
(Chomped on by the beach's blue spray)

I do confide the tide was bona fide
But lacked the curl that when I surfed down in the bay
Won me the girl
Even now I'm thinking even though I should be sinking
That I'm drinking in the curl from the girl

Even when I fall in love my mind is wandering
Somewhere above the lake that has now become an ocean
See him dressing to impress
Because the tragedy caused by the earthquake
Isn't just enough to make him wonder

And even when I'm clean here and I feel I have to warn ya
I want the corn dog shaped like California

For some it's a memento
Maybe just a lone pemento
That you taste when you're on your way home
Not a single cunning thief or the shallow coral reef
Can wash away the thought that kept you climbing
For the corn dog that's shaped like California


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