[00:02.143][Verse 1] [00:16.820]On a razor's edge [00:20.288]At the first sign of light [00:22.564]The car was packed [00:25.474]While the house was quiet [00:27.864]And my sister slept [00:31.020]As we started the drive [00:33.680]To California [00:35.305]Where it's warmer [00:36.883]Gonna start a new life [00:38.823][Pre-Chorus 1] [00:40.193]Gonna miss Ohio but this time [00:44.355]We're gonna get it right [00:46.676][Chorus 1] [00:49.671]Station wagon tires, flying [00:53.796]Katie's counting crows through the [00:56.957]Tears in her blue eyes [00:58.799]State lines and capitals go rushing [01:02.517]By as I'm trying to find [01:04.849]A station on the radio [01:07.737]Everything's gonna be better on the west coast [01:12.170][Verse 2] [01:23.776]And the days move fast [01:27.235]On northern plains [01:29.190]And I read the maps [01:30.789]The prairie grass moved [01:32.693]In the wind like waves [01:34.691]And we can't look back [01:37.452]Some men you just can't save [01:40.472]We had our reasons for leaving [01:43.857]It's better this way [01:45.723][Pre-Chorus 2] [01:47.148]Gonna miss Ohio but I'm not [01:51.469]Gonna miss the rain [01:53.052][Chorus 2] [01:56.578]Station wagon tires, flying [02:00.722]Katie's counting crows through the [02:03.881]Tears in her blue eyes [02:05.808]State lines and capitals go rushing [02:09.506]By as I'm trying to find [02:11.745]A station on the radio [02:14.360]Everything's gonna be better on the west coast [02:20.278]Better than the mess that we left back home [02:24.389]In Ohio [02:30.112]Ohio [02:35.684][Bridge] [02:38.103]Goodbye blue house [02:40.582]Goodbye red door [02:43.347]Abandoned worlds where we would drink on weekends [02:48.914]There's magnets pulling from the ocean floor [02:54.372]I can't forget [02:56.496]The way you looked when we were leaving [02:59.225][Chorus 3] [03:01.267]Tires, flying [03:03.532]Katie's counting crows through the [03:06.653]Tears in her blue eyes [03:08.597]State lines and capitals go rushing [03:12.199]By as I'm trying to find [03:14.591]A station on the radio [03:17.225]Everything's gonna be better on the west coast [03:23.065]Better than the mess that we left back home [03:27.071]In Ohio [03:32.871]Ohio [03:38.446]Ohio [03:44.037]Ohio [03:52.936]Ohio [03:55.932]