Version: Studio
From the album: Room for Squares
Writer: John Mayer
Tuning: E - standard
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Date released: 18 September 2001
Date posted: 22 August 2024, 14:18 (8 months ago)
Last updated: 22 August 2024, 14:18 (8 months ago)
[Part 1]
"I've these dreams of..."
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[Part 2]
"And these days..."
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[Part 3]
"If only my life was more like..."
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[Part 4]
"And most my memories..."
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[Part 5]
"If heaven's all we want it to be..."
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"Send your prayers to me.."
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[Part 6]
[Outro]
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[Lyrics]
(1) I've these dreams of
Walking home
Home where it used to be
And everything is
As it was
Frozen in front of me
(1) Here I stand
6 feet small
Romanticizing years ago
But it's a bitter sweet feeling hearing
"Wrapped Around Your Finger" on the radio
(2) And these days
I wish I was 6 again
Oh make me a red cape
I wanna be Superman
(3) 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
(1) Thinking 'bout my brother Ben
I miss him every day
He looks just like his brother John
But on an 18 month delay
(1) 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
(2) Well these days
I wish I was 6 again
Oh make me a red cape
I wanna be Superman
(3) 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
(4) And most my memories
Have escaped me
Or confused themselves within dreams
(5) If heaven's all we want it to be
Send your prayers to me
Care of 1983
(6)
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 (repeated until fade)
Tabbed by: Elliot Wenman
Edited by: Jasper Geijsberts
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