Just Another Tuesday in San Francisco

*(Verse 1)* Fog rolls in like clockwork over Mission Street at dawn Coffee cups and cable cars keep dragging people on Tourists chase the painted houses, cameras in the air I’m just trying to catch the N line and pretend I’m not late again somewhere A man plays saxophone in the tunnel underground Someone’s selling crystals while the rent keeps climbing down There’s billion-dollar startups next to laundromats and bars And somehow everybody still complains about parking cars *(Chorus)* ’Cause it’s just another Tuesday in San Francisco Sun for twenty minutes then the freezing ocean wind blows Everybody talks like history is happening tonight But I still gotta buy groceries and catch the traffic lights Yeah, the skyline glows like some old movie scene But life is mostly waiting for the washing machine In a city people dream of from a thousand miles away We’re just living ordinary lives day after day "If you're going to San Francisco" *(Verse 2)* Down in North Beach old men argue baseball over wine In the Richmond someone’s grandma hangs her laundry on the line A tech kid writes code all night beside a corner store While a bartender in SoMa sweeps the glass up off the floor Golden Gate looks perfect when the evening starts to fade But beauty doesn’t help much when your landlord wants a raise Still there’s something in the cold air rolling off the bay Makes you think tomorrow might turn out okay *(Chorus)* And it’s just another Wednesday in San Francisco Street preacher by the station yelling where the lost souls go Couples wrapped in sweaters watching ferries drift at night While I’m checking weather apps to see if flights are delayed again tonight Yeah, the skyline glows like some old movie scene But life is mostly leftovers and cracked phone screens In a city people turn into a postcard in their mind We’re just trying to live and get home on time "If you're going to San Francisco" *(Bridge)* Maybe that’s the magic nobody talks about Not the bridges or the fame or the headlines all around Just neighbors knowing neighbors Rain against the fire escape Finding little moments that the whole world never sees *(Final Chorus)* So if you come to San Francisco Don’t expect a song in every doorway window Some days are just buses, bills, and jackets in the rain But there’s beauty in the ordinary anyway Yeah, it’s loud and strange and lonely and alive And somehow people still keep building little lives In a city that the whole world tries to turn into a myth We’re just living here with it "If you're going to San Francisco"