On the 5th of June 2001, the track was released. The track was written & sung by John Mayer.
Track Info
- Song: 83
- Artist: John Mayer
- Written by John Mayer
- Produced by John Alagia
- Album: Room for Squares
- Released Date: 5 June 2001
Chords Info
- Tuning: Standard(E A D G B E)
- Key: D
- Capo: 2nd fret
- Chords: Bm, Am, Csus2, Gm7, C, E, A, D, C7
- BPM: 122
- Suggested Strumming:
- D= Down Stroke, U = Upstroke, N.C= No Chord
[Intro]
Bm Am Bm Am [Verse]
Bm I’ve these dreams
I’m walking home
Am Home when it used to be Bm And ev-ery-thing is as it was Am Frozen in front of me Bm Here I stand, six feet small Am Ro-man-ticizing years ago Bm But it’s a bit-ter-sweet feeling Hearing “Wrapped Around Your Finger”
Am
On the radio
[Pre-Chorus]
Csus2 Bm And these days Csus2 Bm I wish I was six again Csus2 Bm Oh, make me a red cape Csus2 Bm I wanna be Su-perman [Chorus]
Bm Oh, if only my life Gm7 C Was more like nine-teen
Gm7 C
Eighty-three
Gm7 All these things would be more C Gm7 Like they were at the start of me C Bm Am Had it made in eighty-three [Verse]
Bm Think-ing ‘bout my brother Ben Am I miss him every day Bm He looks just like his brother John Am But on an eighteen-month delay Bm Here I stand, six feet small Am And smiling ‘cause
I’m scared as hell
C#m Kind of like my life is
Like a sequel to a movie
Bm Where the actors’ names have
Changed, Oh, well [Pre-Chorus]
Csus2 Bm And these days Csus2 Bm I wish I was six again Csus2 Bm Oh, make me a red cape Csus2 Bm I wanna be Su-perman [Chorus]
Bm Oh, if only my life Gm7 C Was more like nine-teen
Gm7 C
Eighty-three
Gm7 All these things would be more C Gm7 C Like they were at the start of me [Chorus] Gm7 C If my life was more like nineteen
Gm7 C
Eighty-three
Gm7 I’d plot a course to the source C Gm7 C Of the purest little part of me [Bridge]
Bm E Bm And most my memories have escaped me E Or confused themselves with dreams A C D D If hea-ven’s all we want it to be,
Send your prayers to me
C7 Bm Care of nineteen eighty-three [Break]
Gm7 C Gm7 C Gm7 C Gm7 C [Bridge]
Gm7 C You can paint that house a
Rainbow of colors
Gm7 C Rip out the floorboards,
Gm7
Replace the shutters, but
C Gm7 C That’s my plastic in the dirt [Outro]
Gm7 C Whatever happened to my,
Whatever happened to my
Gm7 C Whatever happened to my lunchbox? Gm7 C When came the day Gm7 C That it got thrown a-way Gm7 And don’t you think
I should have had
C Gm7 C Some say in that deci-sion? Gm7 C If only my life [Tag] Gm7 C If only my life, if only my life
