[Verse 1]

Late at night in my troubled mind

I go back to those summertimes

A boy in bed, all the windows wide

You can hear the hotrods running from the light

From the light, into the dark

That's all I wanted in my cousin's car

To listen to the wind and to the lead guitars

And feel the reckless running of your heart

[Pre-Chorus]

Now is that gone or does that all remain?

Can I go back and have it all again?

[Chorus]

Well now I know it, where I'm going

I'm going back behind the river

I'm going back behind the rain

'Cause no matter where you're headed

You end up where you been

[Verse 2]

What's to come, I cannot say

But the mainland calls to take me away

Can take my life, but when I die

I'm only going back to those valley black nights

Gone from the light into the dark

I won't be scared, I will not come apart

I'll feel the wind, sing the riffs

Piled in the backseat with all of my friends

All hands are with me and it's like a dream

Lovers and kin, they all come back to me

[Bridge]

And we're somehow seventeen

And we're drinking on the beach

And the bays are full of fish

And the blazing fires lit

And our bodies start to lift

But we are unafraid of it

We are unafraid

[Chorus]

Well now we know it, where we're going

We're going back behind the river

We're going back behind the rain

'Cause no matter where I'm headed

I'll only end up where I been, yeah

[Outro]

I was tearing at her sweater

I was crying on her chin

Oh, all the while she singing