[00:00.00] From the corners of the country[00:10.47]From the cities and the farms[00:13.80]With years and years of living[00:16.80]Tucked up underneath their arms[00:21.15]They walked away from everything[00:23.82]Just to see a dream come true[00:26.85]So god bless the boys who make the noise[00:30.48]On 16th Avenue[00:35.31]With a million dollar spirit[00:38.79]And an old flattop guitar[00:42.06]They drive to town with all they own[00:45.54]In a hundred dollar car[00:48.96]'Cause one time someone told them[00:51.93]About a friend of a friend they knew[00:55.32]Who owns you know a studio[00:58.56]On 16th Avenue[01:03.54]Now some were born to money[01:06.75]They've never had to say, "Survive"[01:10.26]And others swing a 9 pound hammer[01:14.34]Just to stay alive[01:16.80]There's cowboys drunks and Christians[01:19.74]Mostly white and black and blue[01:23.28]They've all dialed the phone collect to home[01:26.67]From 16th Avenue[01:38.34]Ah, but one night in some empty room[01:41.46]Where no curtains ever hung[01:44.85]Like a miracle some golden words[01:48.27]Rolled off of someone's tongue[01:51.45]And after years of being nothing[01:54.45]They're all looking right at you[01:58.26]And for a while they'll go in style[02:01.59]On 16th Avenue[02:06.45]It looked so uneventful[02:09.75]So quiet and discreet[02:13.14]But a lot of lives where changed[02:15.69]Down in that little one way street[02:19.80]'Cause they walk away from everything[02:23.16]Just to see a dream come true[02:26.25]So God bless the boys who make the noise[02:29.91]On 16th Avenue[02:41.49]From the corners of the country[02:44.79]From the cities and the farms[02:48.21]With years and years of living[02:51.21]Tucked up underneath their arms[02:55.59]They walked away from everything[02:58.32]Just to see a dream come true[03:01.38]So God bless the boys who make the noise