Golden Gate

Are you nostalgic for that time and place
Or are you just depressed?
You've got nothing to confess
The sky just opened up and you went flying to
That man and his tired skin and silver liar's tongue
In that San Francisco Sun

God swallowed up by clouds above the golden gate
Red and gold and gray, he said this fog hangs endlessly
Above this masterpiece
So the people here can hide their sins from God
So we can all hide our sins from God

Your eyes were wide as dinner plates
Bright and freshly cleaned, unspoiled and naive
To taste the world, I know you'd agree to anything
In Paris, you walked the river seine and la palais garnier

Sat with the ghost of Hemingway
À les deux magots aux saint germain-des-prés
And you thought the only price to pay
Was removing all your clothes
For his photographs, exposed

Never knowing what you owed by accepting anything
(Did you know what you owed by accepting anything?)
(Did you know what you'd owe for all that?) no
How could you say no to him
When you're already in this deep?
With the golden gate looming, the ocean at your feet
That water's rising

I say burn that bridge and kiss the salty river at her mouth
Until your lips give out
And your innocence is floating on the bay
(Leave your innocence to float along the bay)
(Your innocence is floating on the bay)
Fly to me and live forever
You'll see the world
You can trust in me