If you should be bored in California I'm sure I'm not the first to warn ya Don't read in too much to all the signs and turns Keep your wits about you with your mind freedom If you should be bored in California I'm sure I'm not the last to warn ya The natives scaled the mountains for the promise of the sea But deem the land unworthy of the evidently We salute the sun because When the day is done We can't believe what we've become Something else to pray upon And evidently It's just another vanity Another something to believe The curse of the contemporary We salute the sun because When the day is done We can't believe what we've become Something else to pray upon And evidently It's just another vanity Another something to believe The curse of the contemporary (Curse of the contemporary) If you should be bored in California I'm sure I'm not the first to warn ya Don't read in too much to all the signs and turns Keep your wits about you with your mind freedom If you should be bored in California I'm sure I'm not the last to warn ya The natives scaled the mountains for the promise of the sea But deem the land unworthy of the evidently (We salute the sun because When the day is done We can't believe what we've become Something else to pray upon And evidently It's just another vanity Another something to believe The curse of the contemporary We salute the sun because When the day is done We can't believe what we've become Something else to pray upon And evidently It's just another vanity Another something to believe The curse of the contemporary)