Maybe I'm a loner, maybe I'm a man Maybe I'm a fool, but try to understand I've been a dreamer, and I've been around And I've spent my time in many a lonesome town I used to know a woman, I used to know a child Sometimes she was so gentle, sometimes she'd be so wild I gave her all my lovin', and I gave her all my youth So certain of the future, so sure we found the truth San Francisco Bay, where my lovin' had to run away We were lookin' for another day, but we couldn't find the words to say San Francisco Bay, all the flowers that we gave away Didn't know our sky was turnin' gray, we were so young in San Francisco Bay So you see my darlin', which is why I've been so strange I've had so many heartaches, it's hard for me to change So when you talk of lovin', and goin' away with me I still can't help rememberin' the way things used to be San Francisco Bay, where my lovin' had to run away We were lookin' for another day, but we couldn't find the words to say San Francisco Bay, all the flowers that we gave away Didn't know our sky was turnin' gray, we were so young in San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, where my lovin' had to run away We were lookin' for another day, but we couldn't find the words to say San Francisco Bay, all the flowers that we gave away