Step out on the pouring rain,
Left out on the evenin' train.
I was just a little boy
Thinkin' 'bout the memories
The father that you used to be

San Jose it's a sun drenched town
Your old truck with the windows rolled down
Jerry Jeff riding high on the radio
I wanna know why you had to go

Took a plane to California, yeah
Endless summer nineteen-seventies
Telling you that you're the man
That taught me how to sing
Why did you go?
And leave me so alone, so young, so young

Tell me things that I wanna know
Now I'm a man with a family of my own
Why'd you go and leave me in the cold
With the face in the mirror of the man I didn't know

In the desert where the warm wind blows
Where'd you go when I was so alone
These California nights can be so cold
I wanna know the man I didn't know

Now I'm the one with the radio song
Wife and kids so tell me what's wrong
I need the man in my life
Who made me who I am
I don't want to lose you again

Took a plane to California, yeah
Endless summer nineteen-seventies
Telling you that you're the man
That taught me how to sing
Why did you go?
And leave me so alone, so young, so young

Tell me things that I wanna know
Now I'm a man with a family of my own
Why'd you go and leave me in the cold
With the face in the mirror of the man I didn't know

In the desert where the warm wind blows
Where'd you go when I was so alone
These California nights can be so cold
I wanna know the man I didn't know

Tell me things that I wanna know
Now I'm a man with a family of my own
Why'd you go and leave me in the cold
With the face in the mirror of the man I didn't know

In the desert where the warm wind blows
Where'd you go when I was so alone
These California nights can be so cold
I wanna know the man I didn't know