1983
John Mayer

I've these dreams of walking home
Home where it used to be
And everything is as it was
Frozen in front of me

Here I stand 6 feet small
Romanticizing years ago
But 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
Plot a course to the source of the purest little part of me

And most of 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 lunch box
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, if only my life


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Taylor Swift)   Heart Of Life   Heartbreak Warfare   Heartbreak Warfare [VH1 Storytellers]   Hearts So Heavy   Home Life   Home Life [Acoustic]   Home Life [DVD]   Homelife   How Much It Hurts   Hummingbird   I Don't Need No Doctor   I Don't Need No Doctor (Live)   I Don't Trust Myself   I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)   I Don't Need No Doctor   I Don't Trust Myself   I Dont Need No Doctor   I Want You Back (Intro To Comfortable)   I Will Be Found   I Will Be Found (Lost at Sea)   I'm Gonna Find Another You   I'm On Fire   I've Got A Woman   If I Ever Get Around To Living   In Repair   In Your Atmosphere   In Your Atmosphere [Live]   In Your Atmosphere aka LA Song   Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)   Jingle Bell Rock   John Mayer - 3x5   John Mayer - 83   John Mayer - Back To You   John Mayer - City Love   John Mayer - Daughters   John Mayer - Great Indoors   John Mayer - My Stupid Mouth   John Mayer - Neon   John Mayer - St. Patricks Day   John Mayer - Why Georgia (Album Version)   John Mayer Age Of Worry is performed at The Villag...   John Mayer Call Me The Breeze is track #5 from the...   John Mayer Dear Marie is track #2 from the album "...   John Mayer Heartbreak Warfare The first track on J...   John Mayer Waiting On The Day is track #3 from the...   Kid A   Lenny   Lenny/Man On The Side   Lenny\/Man on the Side   Lesson Learned   Lifelines   Little Puppy   Lonely Town   Love Is A Verb   Love On The Weekend   Love Song For No One   Love Soon   Man On The Side   Man On The Side (Acoustic)   Message In A Bottle   Midnight   Miss Jackson   My Stupid Mouth   Neon   Neon (12:47 Am)   Never Tear Us Apart   New Deep   New Deep [DVD]   No Brains   No Such Thing   No Such Thing (Extended Live Version)   No Such Thing [Album Version] [Version]   No Such Thing [E]   Not Myself   Old Love   On The Way Home   Only Hear   Only Heart   Only Heart [DVD]   Out Of My Mind   Out of My Mind [Trio Set]   Outside In The Underground   Over And Over   Paper Doll   Paper Doll (Single)   Patience   Patience (cover / Guns 'N' Roses)   Patience (Gun's And Roses)   Patience (Gun's And Roses)   Patience (Live)   Perfectly Lonely   Perfectly Lonley   Portable (Intro To Why Georgia)   Queen Of California   Quiet   Route 66   Same Time Last Year   Say   Say What You Need To Say   Serenade   Shadow Days   Simmering Medley   Slow Dancing In A Burning Room   Slow Dancing in a Burning Room [Band Set]   Something Like Olivia   Something's Missing   Something's Missing   Somethings's Missing   Speak For Me   Split Screen Sadness   St. Patrick's Day   St. Patrick's Day   St. Patricks Day   Standard Lines (with Dashboard Confessional)   Stop This Train   Stop This Train [Acoustic Set]   Sucker   Taking On Water   Tea In The Sahara (with Glen Phillips)   Tell Me What To Say   The Age of Worry   The Heart Of Life   The Heart of Life [Band Set]   The Hurt   The Other Side   The Wind Cries Mary   This Will All Make Perfect Sense Someday   Tracing   Trust Myself   Try   Untitled Song (1999)   Untitled Song Demo   Victoria   Vultures   Vultures [Trio Set]   Wait Til Tomorrow   Wait Until Tomorrow   Waiting On The Day   Waiting On The World To Change   Waiting on the World to Change [Album Version]   Waiting on the World to Change [Band Set]   Waiting on the World to Change [VH1 Storytellers V...   Walk On The Ocean   Walt Grace Submarine Test, January 1967   Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967   War Of My Life   Wheel   Wheel [DVD]   Wherever I Go   Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey   Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey   Whisky, Whisky, Whisky   Who Did You Think I Was   Who Did You Think I Was [Trio Set]   Who Did You Think I Was?   Who Says   Who Says [VH1 Storytellers]   Who You Love   Whole Again   Why Did You Mess With Forever   Why Did You Mess With Forever?   Why Geogia   Why Georgia   Why Georgia [Album Version]   Why Georgia [Band Set]   Wildfire   Wildfire Interlude   Won't Go My Way   Won't Go My Way   XO   XO (Cover From Beyonce)   You're No One 'Til Someone Lets You Down   You're No One 'Til Someone Lets You Down   You’re No One ’til Someone Lets You Do...   Your Body Is A Wonderland   Your Body Is a Wonderland [Album Version] [Version...   Your Body Is a Wonderland [DVD]

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