The first thing I remember   I was lying in my bed   It couldn't of 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'm with my troops, yeah   And down along the avenue   Some guys were shootin' pool   And I heard the sound   Of a capella groups, yeah   Singing late in the evening   And all the girls out on the stoops, yeah      Then I learned to play some lead guitar   I was underage in this funky bar   And I stepped outside to smoke myself a "J"   And when I came back to the room   Everybody just seemed to move   And I turned my amp up loud and I began to play   And it was 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 been on the floor   But I never loved no one   The way I loved you   And it was late in the evening   And all the music seeping through