We all have childhood dreams
Adolescence and adulthood
often cause us to jettison them
dismissing them as silly
or worse, as forgotten relics

I never forgot my dream
never abandoned it either
no matter the odds
Wants and desires are a tricky business
sometimes exactly what you want falls right into your lap
and sometimes the wishes of childhood
are left to wither and rot on the vine

I would like to travel back in time
and meet Ponch and Jon from chips
If I could build a time machine
That would literally be my first stop

I don't necessarily even need to meet them
it's the California of 1978 that I want to see
Clean and new, it had everything that New York was missing
kids with perfect white teeth playing sandlot baseball in December

Innocence with a not too seamy underbelly
All the music started off with bass and horns
and a wah-wah pedal scratch guitar
It never rained

I would like to travel back in time
and meet Ponch and Jon from chips
If I could build a time machine
That would literally be my first stop

As I got older
I also realized I could have seen Van Halen
on the "Women and Children First" tour
I've been to California since and it was really nice

I saw L.A. and Santa Monica and Torrance
and Long Beach and even South Central
It just wasn't the same

Not even close