Lyrics

Late at night in a basement out on North Broadway
That's where I first learned to sing and to play
With my 501's a Peavey and a can of Orange Crush
Late at night amid the boxes and the tools and the dust

Chris bought some drums from Eric for only fifty bucks
We laid a rug down by the furnace and we set 'em up
I bought a guitar from Kurt that was missing all its knobs
We jammed on Neil Young songs till the neighbors called the cops

We learned to sing loud--cause we didn't have no microphones
We learned to sing long--cause we didn't ever want to go home
We learned to sing true--it was the only way that we knew how
Have we forgotten all that now? Have we forgotten all that now?

We dug in for the winter and practiced every day
By the beginning of the summer our friends would come and watch us play
Sometimes the whole neighborhood would all come out to hear Late at night amid the boxes and the drums and the beer

We learned to sing loud--cause we didn't have no microphones
We learned to sing long--cause we didn't ever want to go home
We learned to sing true--it was the only way that we knew how
Have we forgotten all that now? Have we forgotten all that now?

Late at night in a basement out on Broadway (8x)