1983 -

I was feeling suicidal

Listening to Billy Idol

Dissolving in an army of tears

So damn sure

I’d remember that year

But it was given to you

Baby, it was given to you

It was given to you by mistake

We’re all crushed by what we make

And what we take

You were lively as a wire

Like a song by Billy Squier

And everybody wanted your touch

So damn sure

That I loved you so much

But she’s a trainwreck

She’s a shadow on my lawn

It was given to you

Baby it was given to you

By mistake

I was wasted on an island

Lost in an asylum

Anxiously awaiting the fall

So damn sure

I knew nothing at all

You stayed high for most the summer

At one party or another

I never got to hold you again

So damn sure

That year’d never end

But she’s a trainwreck

She’s a shadow on my lawn

It was given to you

Baby it was given to you

By mistake