Mission Bells

I've been in the narrow slashes
 Velvet red and real as rashes
 California's got me wanting more
 Four years got me from this caption
 Generation came to kill
 I know you and i know you will
 Who'll be sleeping on the mission bells?
 Leave me or let me go
 Oceans on two sides
 Optimism parallel, breaking in rich tides
 How they must soothe you, now day and night
 Hypocrisy has smashed that atavistic take
 On my commitment, one mistake
 How's the new kid, all the new truths and the vileness, god forbid
 I lie here waiting while the mission bells are ringing, ringing
 Out over the city and the sunshine and the doubt