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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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