At a red stoplight in some sleepy town
An old truck pulled up with the windows down
And a song from the past was playing full blast
And all at once I was seventeen
And my car became a time machine
And all those years just disappeared
I could almost see my Janie beside me,
Her bare feet up on the dash
And the boy I was, was stirred up inside me
Tuggin' my heart and takin' me back
Hey yeah, yeah, that summer song
We cranked it up and sang out strong
Every night we danced till dawn
And listened to it over and over
Hey yeah, that summer song
We learned about love as we went along
Those glory days may be long gone
But this feelin' still lives on
In that summer song, that summer song
On the night of the day I got my first car