Chapel Avenue

Skateboards and lemonade stands

Fourth of July parade bands

Creature feature matinees

And high dive, I double dare you

Hormones enough to scare you

Daydreaming summertime away

And all the gold of yesterday

Is a debt I can't repay

I owe it all to you

Chapel Avenue

Hippies, hobos, ghosts, and goblins

Dracula, Batman and Robin

All dressed up for Beggars' Night

And sissy bars, banana seats

Popping wheelies down our street

Time flies sometimes at the speed of light

And all the gold of yesterday

Is a debt I can't repay

I owe it all to you

Chapel Avenue

They cut down the lilac bush

And planted a pine tree

It'll never grow

What became of that old green chair?

I had a fort behind years ago

Years ago

Where did they go?

Goodbye familiar faces

Treehouses, hiding places

The stars at night, the hills we climbed

Childhood artifacts

Green fields and cul-de-sacs

Theses are the things we leave behind

But all the gold of yesterday

Is a debt I can't repay

I owe it all to you

I do

Chapel Avenue