[Verse 1]
Settling down with warm-glow wood stove and kerosene
Peace you're looking for
Peace you'll find
In the tangled mad cliff-sides and crashing dark
Of Big Sur
Of Big Sur
[Verse 2]
Rapturous ring of silence, Pacific fury
Flashing on the rocks, the sea-shroud towers
The innocence of health and stillness in the wild
Of Big Sur
Of Big Sur
[Bridge]
This whole surface of the world
As we know it now
Will be covered with the silt of a billion years in time
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
And I see as much as doors will allow
A long way from
The Beat Generation
Here comes the nightly moth to his nightly death
In Big Sur
In Big Sur
[Verse 4]
The best thing to do is not be false
The rocks of the valley
Have left no howl of complaint
And I'm just a sick clown, and so is everybody else
In Big Sur
In Big Sur
[Guitar Solo]