Ball in the Street

[00:01.78] Hey I've been dreamin'

[00:06.55] seems every night

[00:11.06] quite some time now

[00:15.32] somethin' ain't right

[00:17.70] I'm always, always runnin'

[00:24.61] But I never can leave

[00:28.86] Wake and wonder

[00:33.38] what it all means

[00:36.83] It's always my hometown

[00:41.08] that I'm dreamin' about

[00:46.92] I just don't see it

[00:50.92] how it really is

[00:54.36] It's not the small houses,

[01:00.23] people or fields

[01:03.67] Not the small church houses, factories, fireflies or the feel

[01:12.97] No trains rollin'

[01:18.29] somewhere through the night

[01:23.61] No cruisers revvin' up on a Friday night

[01:30.78] No smell of the grill

[01:35.83] in summertime

[01:40.88] or cracklin' wood when the summer's gone by

[01:47.78] Now the buildings they block the sky

[01:52.56] and so many people pass by

[01:58.67] But they don't say hello

[02:02.13] and they don't look you in the eye

[02:07.71] Creaking porch swing drowned-out by the

[02:11.95] noise in these streets

[02:16.20] And the air's not clear

[02:19.39] and the waters don't run so deep

[02:47.28] Maybe there's no more

[02:51.27] left of me

[02:55.78] left of the innocent boy

[02:59.51] who played ball in the street

[03:04.55] left of the wild boy

[03:08.53] who played hooky out in the street

[03:14.11] left of the dreamin' boy who

[03:18.10] dreamed of leavin' those streets

[03:39.89] Now the scenes of the life

[03:44.41] I'm livin' today

[03:49.20] caught in those streets can never, never be the same

[03:58.77] So maybe I need a

[04:03.82] way to believe

[04:07.00] that people can understand what makes me feel

[04:14.97] that I've drifted

[04:17.09] too far out to sea

[04:24.53] feel like the water's gettin' too deep for me

[04:33.30] feel like the life boat's

[04:36.75] driftin' out of my reach

[04:41.80] and miss those days playing

[04:47.11] ball in the street