117 valley drive 

seemed like heaven when the band arrived 

with a couple of drums and a couple guitars 

we'd play our hearts out in my backyard 

and the people came from everywhere 

to put their plastic chairs in the summer air 

down on valley drive 

people came with kids and dogs, sat out on the lawn, 

and they sang along with a hard hay's Nhght 

and a ticket to ride 

we were barely in our teens 

yeah, laughin' like crazy, yeah, livin' our dreams 

well, the boys just cut up and the girls just talk 

but when we'd start up, well, the world would stop 

though it was a different age 

nothing's gone and nothing's changed 

in my mind 

what it was was a way of life 

but no one noticed we'd run out of time