On 16th Avenue
And others swing a 9 pound hammer
Ah, but one night in some empty room
Who owns you know a studio
They've all dialed the phone collect to home
They're all looking right at you
Rolled off of someone's tongue
About a friend of a friend they knew
They walked away from everything
'Cause they walk away from everything
Just to see a dream come true
Tucked up underneath their arms
And an old flattop guitar
So quiet and discreet
With years and years of living
'Cause one time someone told them
From the cities and the farms
Mostly white and black and blue
But a lot of lives where changed
And for a while they'll go in style
Like a miracle some golden words
Just to see a dream come true
From 16th Avenue
Where no curtains ever hung
Tucked up underneath their arms
Down in that little one way street
With years and years of living
On 16th Avenue
They drive to town with all they own
So god bless the boys who make the noise
Just to see a dream come true
So God bless the boys who make the noise
And after years of being nothing
With a million dollar spirit
There's cowboys drunks and Christians
On 16th Avenue
From the corners of the country
On 16th Avenue
In a hundred dollar car
It looked so uneventful
Now some were born to money
They've never had to say, "Survive"
They walked away from everything
Just to stay alive
