Verse one: I see you by the beach
Down on Ocean Avenue
Do you think I have the fucking time?
Call my name and I'm gone
Turn my face, yeah I'm done
I won't be playing tonight

Pre-Chorus: Cruising down the 101
They think I'm just here for fun
Don't you have your road, too?
He said, "listen to your heart
That's the only place to start"
Maybe that's why my world is blue

Chorus: I have to rise above
This ground, this world, this life
Give all that I've got
When I'm with you tonight
Forever and ever, that's what he said
When he reached down from on high
Give you what I got, I wanna show you baby
Just let me see the light

Post-chorus: You might be happy
Bein' the law
But I know it's higher than you (than you)
They said "Cali ain't so hot
Since you left" I know it's true
I knew I had to leave then
Don't wanna be that
Sinner no more
But I guess that you do


Chorus (twice): I have to rise above
This ground, this world, this life
Give all that I've got
When I’m with him tonight
Forever and ever, that's what he said
When he reached down from on high
Give you what I got, I wanna show you baby
Just let me see the light