Ride Down the Avenue

Lyrics

Tonight I'm riding all night Talking to myself and my sleeping bride And I'm looking at my life Lord, I hope I'm doing everything right 'Cause I'm just a kid in a man's shoes Well everybody says that, but with me it's true As I ride down the avenue Yesterday was Christmas day I was a little hungover at my sister-in-law's place Thinking through a hard year The people that are gone and the people still here Now I work for both, I do But I'm wearing out my last pair of good shoes A voice lost but now clear, like the ringing in my ears So now I'm riding down the avenue See the little boys with little toy guns that shoot In cowboy hats and cuban boots Their mother's father's sailor suits And I swear I've never changed Since I was 17 I've stayed the same 'cept now I drive in the right line The girls in the back carry my name Two blue-eyed girls with my name I'm alone, I'm not alone And I'm scared, but I'm not scared And I'm no singer, that much I know But I'm singing these last lines even so 'Cause I've heard the holy sound Of a teenage band in a basement in the ground And I heard the marchers' drum And now I know this thing is just begun And I know I'm old, it's true But I know I'm young, too As I ride down the avenue As I ride down the avenue As I ride down the avenue