I'm coming home from my hardest year
I'm making plans not to make plans while I'm here
And this life has been no holiday, a complicated situation
I'm fine with all my memories, still I could use vacation

It's Christmas and California is hard to ignore that
It feels like summer all the time
But I'll take a west coast winter to remove my splinters
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive

I'm coming home to the lights and buzz
Streets look the same, still nothing's as it was
And this place is paradise I'm sure, here's my reservation
I've gotten lost here once before, inside
A good vibration

It's Christmas and California is hard to ignore that
It feels like summer all the time
But I'll take a west coast winter to remove my splinters
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive

And time, and time it stops for no one
The seasons come and go and that's just time
Yea, time it stops for no one
The seasons keep on going
Whether or not we're blind

Christmas and California is hard to ignore that
It feels like summer all the time
But I'll take a west coast winter to remove my splinters
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
(It's good to be alive...)