Ashes to Ashes

They're tearing down the street

Where I grew up

Like pouring brandy

In a Dixie cup

They're paving concrete on a part of me

No trial for killing off a memory

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Can you find the Milky Way?

Long Tall Sally and Tin Pan Alley

Have seen their dying day

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

It'll never be the same

But we're all forgiven, we're only livin'

To leave the way we came

No sidewalk playground now to meet my friends

They put a roadblock at the rainbow's end

We're driving faster now than Orville flew

We leave our mark on every single thing we do

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

It's the way the West was won

Amos and Andy, and nickel candy

Have fallen to the gun

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

It'll never be the same

But we're all forgiven, we're only livin'

To leave the way we came

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Can you find the Milky Way?

Long Tall Sally and Tin Pan Alley

Have seen their dying day

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

It'll never be the same

But we're all forgiven, we're only livin'

To leave the way we came

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

It's the way the West was won

Amos and Andy, and nickel candy

Have fallen to the gun

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

It'll never be the same

But we're all forgiven, we're only livin'

To leave the way we came...