'85 dreams of
a pre-teen sk8 punk
bleeding all over
from the land mine launch ramp
banana deck was my rocket
saw you in Thrasher
heard you on a walkman
Universe shifts and I feel I'm movin'
those Chili boys jumpin'
set a kid to groovin'
squat a dump
to build our sk8 park
we were free
till the thugs took over
Time to off it
to a big school
little tiny fish
but I knew how to be cool
do the freak stomp
arms a flailin'
people come to look
an' it sets me sailing
Teen age dream,
wanna be writer
had to be cryptic
to make it to my paper
all the shes
startin' to listen
hippie sk8 kid
on a major mission
armed with education
gotta spread my wings
at the railroad station
I stole two friends
to be my straight men
rocky mountain shes
didn't know what hit them
fungi man out on the dance floor
squeezin' that soul
was quite a mouth full
roamin' through the mountains
saw another side, saw an avalanche
and I said my good bye
three week beach
bum
needs some music
found a friendly rocker
who gave me comp tick's
Gastown lows started gettin' ugly
drive the veedub to M-t-l
that's where the reaper found me
lyin' by the tracks
facing Saint-Antoine
things were getting dark
but I had to press on
Young man dreams
of studio stardom
I cold feel the sound boards
then somebody stole them
Angel's hand so far reachin'
back door van man
what's the lesson you're teachin'
Father's dream
of solid foundations
pray for her and she will find you
teach Nature Boy about vacations
love's our fuel and we start trippin'
beauty all around us
loud river nights are so soothing
we found ourselves where we weren't lookin'
always going back now
for campfire cookin'
Little family dreams of a farmhouse
livin' in concrete
gotta find a way to chip us out