1. The first thing I remember I was lying in my bed, I couldn't of been no more than one or two.

2. The next thing I remember, I am walking down the street, I'm feeling all right I'm with my boys, I'm with my troops, yeah.

1. And I remember there's a radio comin' from the room next door, and my mother laughed the way some ladies do,

2. And down along the avenue some guys were shooting pool, and I heard the sound of a cappella groups, yeah,

1. when it's late in the evening and the music's seeping through.

2. singing late in the evening and all the girls out on the stoops, yeah.

3. Then I learned to play some lead guitar, I was underage in this funky bar, and I stepped outside to smoke myself a "J".

4. The first thing I remember when you came into my life, I said, I'm gonna get that girl, no matter what I do.

3. And when I come back to the room, everybody just seemed to move, and I turned my amp up loud and I began to play

4. Well, I guess I'd been in love before, and once or twice I been on the floor,but I never loved no one the way that I loved you,

3. and it was late in the evening and I blew that room away.

4. and it was late in the evening, and all the music seeping through.