[Intro - Harp and Strings] [Verse 1] There's a photograph of a city Painted gold before I was born Cable cars climb up through the fog line Chasing mornings I never saw dawn [Verse 2] Castro Street is dressed up in rainbows Haight and Ashbury dreaming out loud Someone's playing guitar on a doorstep Singing love to a flower child crowd [Pre-Chorus] And I wasn't there, no, I wasn't there But I carry it, I carry it with me anyway [Chorus] Oh, I wish I was in San Francisco Back when the bridge still bled that burnt-orange red Wish I could walk where the dreamers were walking Live one more time in the words that they said I wasn't there, but I remember somehow San Francisco, 1974 [Verse 3] Coit Tower keeps a secret in silence Watching the ferries go drifting for home Somewhere a jukebox plays something Motown Somewhere a stranger's not really alone [Pre-Chorus] And I wasn't there, no, I wasn't there But I carry it, I carry it with me anyway [Chorus] Oh, I wish I was in San Francisco Back when the bridge still bled that burnt-orange red Wish I could walk where the dreamers were walking Live one more time in the words that they said I wasn't there, but I remember somehow San Francisco, 1974 [Bridge - Strings Swell, Modulate Up] Maybe the city don't need me to prove it Maybe it's living inside me instead In every old song, every faded snapshot In every "I wish" that gets left unsaid [Key Change +1 - Final Chorus] Oh, I wish I was in San Francisco Where the hills wore the sun like a crown on its head Wish I could dance where the dreamers were dancing Chase down the ghost of the life that I led I wasn't there, but my heart still goes wandering San Francisco, 1974 San Francisco, take me home [Outro - Flugelhorn and Strings Fade] I wasn't there... I wasn't there...
