Eastern Street Kids

Summer Streets 84-94

Low roar, soft thwack of a skateboard

Team meeting on the corner to coordinate

Set the day's misadventure with a mixtape

A group of riders 6 wide in the heat

Sk8 or die was the cry - Matt Hensley was king

Seemed like the whole world was ours

BMX bikes, fist fights, and passing cars

Every road had a curb for a skater

And every girl was a garden in a bomb crater

My 80s heart pumped neon blood

Sprayed painted on a stop sign: Power of Love

Ya had to get a little crazy with no internet

Living room forts and Cardboard spaceships

We took a few good beatings off and on

Can't really say if it was right or wrong

Climbin' cliffs burnin' day into night

Bomb the hill, trail of sparks in the twilight

These memories are burned deep in my heart

Like the Poway sun blasts cracks in the asphalt

Pictures hangin' off the wars we'd won

Hilltop hangs where our dreams were spun

Streetlights on time to go home

But us East Street kids we were never alone

When we were all together side by side

Every night a story every day a ride

We raced our hearts to stars and distant lands

Left with the sand slipping through my hands

When we were all together

Yesterday I saw a Green Day sticker on a Hatchback

A little voice said don't look back

I took a walk just to see if it was still there

Sat down on the curb and just stared

Been 20 years since I rounded this turn

I think I see some old wax on the curb

It's so unreal how far apart we've gone

Since we were all circled up right here in the sun

Today the street's even less than a ghost town

No sound no kids runnin' around

At least we had a little fun before the ending

Before people flew planes into buildings

Those days are gone but I'm glad it was me

There was som'n pretty magical about that street

In every sidewalk, in every tree

The heart of that kid still beats in me

When we were all together side by side

Every night a story every day a ride

We raced our hearts to stars and distant lands

Left with the sand slipping through my hands

When we were all together

When we were all together

When we were all together

When we were all together