[Verse 1] Fifteen years old and the year That forever seemed to shape me We were changing our rehearsal place To where the older guys would hang When we got there we heard music Coming out of open windows It was you There was something they were smoking That I had never smelled before [Chorus] Sounding like the best band in the world That no one ever heard of Didn't matter much to them Didn't matter much to me They kept on playing Like their lives depended on it And in so many ways it did [Verse 2] It was John, Harry and Jimmy Dizzy Jonsson and The Rovers Looking like from another world Just like bands used to do Whiskey bottles on the speakers Cigarettes in yellow hands And me, I stood there speechless As they all came and shook my hand [Chorus] Just like the best band in the world That no one ever heard of Didn't matter much to them Didn't matter much to me They kept on playing Like their lives depended on it And in so many ways it did Became the best band in the world That no one ever heard of Didn't matter much to them Didn't matter much to me They kept on playing Like their lives depended on it And in so many ways it did And in so many ways it did Back in the days of innocence Before it all began