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 try 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 living
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 living
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 living
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 living
To leave the way we came