83

John Mayer

I've these dreams I'm 
Walking home 
Home when it used to be 
And everything is 
As it was 
Frozen in front of me 

Here I stand 
6 feet small 
romanticizing years ago 
it's a bitter sweet feeling hearing "Wrapped Around Your Finger" on the 
radio 

and these days 
I wish I was 6 again 
Oh make me a red cape 
I wanna be Superman 

Oh, if only my life was more like 
1983 
all these things would be more like they were at the 
start of me 

had it made in 83 

thinking bout my brother Ben 
I miss him every day 
He looks just like his brother John 
But on an 18 month delay 

Here I stand 
6 feet small 
and smiling cause I'm scared as hell 
kind of like my life is like a sequel to a movie 
where the actor's names have changed 
oh well 

well these days 
I wish I was 6 again 
Oh make me a red cape 
I wanna be Superman 

Oh, if only my life was more like 
1983 
all these things would be more like they were at the 
start of me 
If my life was more like 
1983 
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 heaven's all we want it to be 
send your prayers to me 
care of 1983 

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 away and don't you think I should have had some say 
in that decision 

if only my life 
if only my life 
if only my life 
if only my life 
if only my life 
if only my life 
if only my life