these days i m layin low in san diego and you know that s where the sun shines all the time but every now and then i get the bad jones to go home so i call some old friends of mine and they ask me if i like the place i m livin in i tell em california s pretty happening but buddy out of everywhere i ve been should have stopped in wichita that was where i had it all there s a woman there with brown hair she never did a one thing wrong wonder what she s doing now wonder how her life turned out yeah i got to see it all should have stopped in wichita i ve come from a long long line of dreamers and leavers could have been the gypsy in my blood maybe i saw one too many wheatfields big deal maybe it got too close to love that was when i thought i had it figured out really wasn t ready then to settle down wish i knew then what i know now would have stopped in wichita that was where i had it all there s a woman there with brown hair never did a one thing wrong wonder what she s doing now wonder how her life turned out yeah i got to see it all should have stopped in wichita guess there s nothing left to do now just get on with my life somehow so i keep throwndown should have stopped in wichita that was where i had it all there s a woman there with brown hair she never did a damn thing wrong wonder where we d right now how it would have all turned out yeah i got to see it all should have stopped in wichita