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 Now is that gone or does that all remain? Can I go back and have it all again? 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 heading You end up where you been 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 Going 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 my friends All hands are with me, yeah, and it's like a dream Lovers and kin, they all come back to me 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 'Cause 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 I was tearing at her sweater I was crying on her chin All the while she saying "Baby, you'll be back again"