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

Here I stand six feet small
Romanticizing years ago
But it's a bitter sweet feelin' hearin'
No such thing on the radio

And these days
I wish I was six 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

Thinkin' 'bout my brother Ben
I miss him every day
He looks just like his brother John
But on an eighteen month delay
Is that okay, by the way

Here I stand six feet small
And smilin' '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 six 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 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 *****port CT at 1983

You can paint that house a rainbow of colors
Rip out the floorboard
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

The phone rings in the middle of the night
And my father says 'What you gonna do with your life?'
Oh Daddy dear, you know, you're still number one
But girls, they wanna have fun

Oh girls just wanna have, oh no, no, no, no
They just wanna, they just wanna
They just wanna, they just wanna, wanna
They just wanna, girls

Let's hear it for the boys
Let's hear it for my baby
Let's hear it for the boys
Oh, let's give the boy a hand

Oh, oh, maybe he's no Romeo
But he's my lovin' one man show

If only my life
If only my life
If only my life
If my life was more like '83