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Intro

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I’ve these dreams I’m walking home

Home when it used to be

And ev-ery-thing is as it was

Frozen in front of me

Here I stand, six feet small

Ro-man-ticizing years ago

But it’s a bit-ter-sweet feeling

Hearing “Wrapped Around Your Finger” on the radio

And these days

I wish I was six again

Oh, make me a red cape

I wanna be Su-perman

Oh, if only my life

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Was more like nine-teen eighty-three

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All these things would be more

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Like they were at the start of me

Had it made in eighty-three

Think-ing ‘bout my brother Ben

I miss him every day

He looks just like his brother John

But on an eighteen-month delay

Here I stand, six feet small

And smiling ‘cause I’m scared as hell

Kind of like my life is like a sequel to a movie

Where the actors’ names have changed

Oh, well

Well, these days

I wish I was six again

Oh, make me a red cape

I wanna be Su-perman

Oh, if only my life

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Was more like nine-teen eighty-three

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All these things would be more

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Like they were at the start of me

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If my life was more like nineteen eighty-three

I’d plot a course to the source

Of the purest little part of me

And most my memories have escaped me

Or confused themselves with dreams

If hea-ven’s all we want it to be

Send your prayers to me

Care of nineteen eighty-three

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You can paint that house a rainbow of colors

Rip out the floorboards, replace the shutters, but

That’s my plastic in the dirt

Whatever happened to my

Whatever happened to my

Whatever happened to my lunchbox?

When came the day

That it got thrown a-way

And don’t you think I should have had

Some say in that deci-sion?

If only my life

If only my life

If only my life

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