First thing I remember
I was lying in my bed
Couldn't have been no more
Than one or two
I remember there's a radio
Comin' from the room next door
And my mother laughed
The way some ladies do
When it's late in the evening
and the music's seeping through

The next thing I remember
I am walking down the street
I'm feeling all right
I'm with my boys, I am with my troops, yeah
Down along the avenue
Some guys were shooting pool
And I heard the sound
of a cappella groups, yeah
Singing late in the evening
and all the girls out on the stoops, yeah

I learned to play some lead guitar
I was underage in this funky bar
And I stepped outside to smoke myself a "J"
When I come back to the room
Everybody just seemed to move
when I turned my amp up loud
and began to play
Late in the evening
and I blew that room away

The first thing I remember
when you came into my life
I said I'm gonna get that girl
no matter what I do
Well I guess I'd been in love before
and once or twice I've been on the floor
But I never loved no one
the way that I loved you
And it was late in the evening
all the music seeping through

First thing I remember
when you came into my life
I said I'm gonna get that girl
no matter what I do
I guess I'd been in love before
and once or twice I've been on the floor
But I never loved no one
in the way that I loved you
And it was late in the evening
all the music seeping through