Adrian Belew - 117 Valley Drive

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 dogssat 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


Yeahlaughin’ like crazyyeahlivin’ our dreams


Wellthe boys just cut up and the girls just talk


But when we’d start upwellthe 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