Sandlot

The long-lost art of the chalk drawn lines on hot top

A hotpscotch box with the squad on bikes

Got the block on lock like the Choctaw tribe

A hodgepodge of oddballs and Oshkosh stripes

Socks off at the frog pond

If crossed hearts died, we all lied

Mom and pop shops and barflies

That haunt dives, jobs on strike, and costs on the rise

It's a hard-knock knife, but it's all alright

It's a hard-knock knife, but it's all alright

I remember those nights

Lights in the sky on the fourth of July

Time's going by, I ignored all the signs

I remember those nights

The chain link fences that gave us the sense

We're caged in together, their raising the rents

It's changing forever, the same dang gang that you played with

Still hangs but their faces are aged and weathered

Defending the ancient ways since remembered as best left forgotten

So 86 the sentiment, never acknowledged

The names in cements still etched in the conscience

When laid brick and sediment then get demolished

Erasers to pencils on pavement

The faceless paintings of cavemen

The echoes of artists

I remember those nights

Lights in the sky on the fourth of July

Time's going by, I ignored all the signs

I remember those nights

Happened in the summer

The whole sky was brightened with fireflies

Giving us just enough light

Every time we stopped to watch the sky on those nights

Like regular kids

A long time ago

But only if you measure it in terms of years

And I remember those nights when we just went for a ride

And I was hopping on the back of the pegs of your bike

Put the pedal to the pebbles, little rebel, you will never do right

And I was catching the reflection of the festival lights

And we were walking on the tracks till the end of the line

It's just drawings on a map, but we repped with pride

If you crossed it on your path and you stepped the wrong side

You would not have got a pass, we would get in a fight

Some people talked a lot of trash, we were ready to die

And regrettably, eventually some met their demise

And they'll forever be a memory that's captured by time

But I inherited a legacy and kept them alive

In the depths of my mind

I remember those nights

Lights in the sky on the fourth of July

Time's going by, I ignored all the signs

I remember those nights