It's cold in the Golden State I'm in a slumber Set in summer eighty-eight We crashed the Bonaventure into Little Tokyo Hammer on the headphones in full stereo Fall in an altered state I'm a scream queen Back in nineteen seventy-eight We crashed the after-party, we trashed the bungalow Blondie on the boombox in full stereo Oh California, if you need a golden child It's not bad to be the good guy once in a while Winter on the interstate Were you drinking In a Lincoln sixty-eight You crashed the Continental in little Tokyo Honey on the hi-fi in full stereo They call it the solid state But in the meantime We'll call it springtime eighty-eight When we crashed the Bonaventure Nakatomi style It's good to be the bad guy once in a while