Rain is pouring down
   In our land-locked town
   Skies are always gray
   Let's go surfing, babe
  
  
   Somewhere there is hope
   Somewhere there are dreams
   Far from soot and smoke
   Let's go surfing, babe
  
   Tonight as we look at the moon and the stars
   From our room with security bars
   There's a westerly wind that is blowing both our minds
   And both our feet
   Walk through sand that's as white as the snow
   Past the people named Kelley and Joe
   Who have nothing in common with anyone we know, we know they're
  
   Too Wagnerian
   Too Shakespearian
   Too impossible
   Let's go surfing, babe
  
  
   Somewhere there is hope
   Far from everything
   Far from misanthropes
   Let's go surfing, babe
  
   Tonight, from a room only Dickens could love
   Wearing moth-eaten sweaters and gloves
   We will open the window and feel an on-shore wind a-blowing in
   Grab our boards from the back of our van
   Paddle out 'til we can't see the sand
   Spin around and drop into the wave we hope will never end
  
   Somewhere there is hope
   Somewhere there are dreams
   Far from everything
   Let's go surfing, babe
  
   Tonight, grab our boards from the back of our van
   Paddle out 'til we can't see the sand
   Spin around and drop into the wave we hope will never end
  
   Catch a wave, a wave, a wave
   Catch a wave, a wave, a wave
  
   Somewhere there is hope
   Somewhere there are dreams
   Far from everything
   Let's go surfing, babe