This song starts out with a lie. It wasn`t 1977, it was actually 1978. The rest of the song is truth. The names were not changed to protect the innocent. They were left out intentionally to protect the guilty, namely me and a guy I met back then, who I still consider to be a good friend, though we don`t see each other much any more. I was considerably younger then, single, and stupid. I really believe the old saying about youth being wasted on the young. I`m living proof of it.
This particular Summer, my buddy`s family took off to California to see her folks. I didn`t have anywhere to stay, so I crashed at his house.
He was driving a truck, I was working at a local store, as cashier, and pumping gas; and we were in for a time we`ll always remember.
We were like a couple of chickens, waking up in a new world everyday. And we were too stupid to know there were things we couldn`t do. Much less the fact, we could`ve been arrested for a lot of it.
I met a girl I should`ve married ( no, she wasn`t pregnant). She died a few years after all this, in a motorcycle wreck. But I learned lessons that Summer about friends and life, I`ll never forget. Here`s to you, buddy.
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