19 somethin'

saw star wars at least eight times

had the pac-man pattern memorized

and i've seen the stuff they put inside

stretch armstrong

i was robert staubach in my backyard

had a shoe box full of baseball cards

and a couple evil knievel scars

on my right arm

i was a kid when elvis died

and my momma cried

it was 1970 somethin'

in the world that i grew up in

farrah fawcett hairdo days

bell bottoms and eight track tapes

lookin' back now i can see me

oh

man. did i look cheesy

but i wouldn't trade those days for nothin'

oh

it was 1970 somethin'

it was the dawning of a new decade

we got our first microwave

dad broke down and

finally shaved them old sideburns off

i took the stickers off of my rubik's cube

watched m-tv all afternoon

my first love was daisy duke

and them cut-off jeans

space shuttle fell out of the sky

and the whole world cried

it was nineteen eighty-somethin'

and the world that i grew up in

skatin' rinks and black trans-ams

big hair and parachute pants

and lookin' back now i can see me

oh man

did i look cheesy

i wouldn't trade those days for nothin'

oh it was nineteen eighty-somethin'

now i've got a mortgage and an suv

but all this responsibility

makes me wish

sometimes

that it was nineteen eighty-something

and the world that i grew up in

skatin' rinks and black trans-ams

big hair and parachute pants

and lookin' back now i can see me

oh man

did i look cheesy

i wouldn't trade those days for nothin'

oh it was nineteen eighty-something

nineteen seventy-something

oh

it was nineteen somethin'