Flying Over Sunset (Reprise)

How I miss the shores of California

Strolling on the soft white sand

Sliding off my bra

Pantiless in la la land

Writing jokes at Paramount for movies

Typing with a broken ‘y’

Jasmine in the breeze

Reaching for the car keys

Flying over sunset

Crossing Hollywood and Vine

Flying over sunset

Past the Hollywood land sign

Riding with the top down

Eyeing all the tan young men

I could’ve had my choice of any then

And I’m flying over sunset young again

Where are we? What town is this?

I can’t make out the view

Greenwich? Rome? Jakarta? or Malibu?

Life is lived in multiple dimensions / Multiple dimensions

Yesterday tomorrow now / Yesterday tomorrow now

Past and future merge prior lives converge in doubt

Speeding to Laguna through the canyons

All at once I’m in the sky

High above the trees

Rolling hills and valleys

Flying over sunset

By the mansions of Bel Air

Beverly and Brentwood as the wind is in my hair

Gleaming in the distance

I can suddenly behold

So much more immense than I’d been told

The Pacific in the sunset

Bright with gold

Where’s my bag?

Who’s car is this?

Did Henry lose the keys?

I can’t drive a stick shift

The Bentley please

I should like to fly in California / Fly in California

Diving from a silver plane / Diving from a silver plane

Gliding through the clouds

Showering the sea like rain / In the glow of the ocean

Wading in the whitecaps of Topanga / Of Topanga canyon

Naked in surging tide / Surging tide

Water laps my thighs / Laps my thighs

Washing up inside me

Flying over sunset

To a place you wouldn’t dare / Shouldn’t dare / Be careful

Flying over sunset

Like a painting in the air

Breaking through to safety

To a place of no return

No where else to grow until you learn

How to fly / Navigate the air space

Of a world beyond your view

Constantly exploring for the reason why you’re you

Flying out of body

To experience the mind

Love’s the one thing I won’t leave behind

Through a transcendental portal

Where a moment feels immortal

We’ll go flying over sunset

Flying over sunset

Flying over sunset

Flying over sunset

Just don’t fall