Lyrics

1985 was a really strange, strange year
Momma bought a station wagon and Daddy was tense with fear
He started drinking more, he started staying out late
Momma got an accountant job and quit the PTA

1985
1985 was a really strange year
1985

1985 was a really strange, strange year
My older brother started smoking cigarettes and stealing my Daddy’s beer
Momma told Daddy to talk to him 'cause he was headed in the wrong direction
He went to juvy twice that year, Daddy said it would teach him a lesson

1985
1985 was a really strange year
1985

I Stopped watching Superman cuz I didn’t feel much like a kid
But in the night when I was all alone I did
I did

Momma told me to be my best, so I kept it all to myself
Daddy told me to be my best, so I kept it all to myself

I remember momma in the mirror
She was putting on her red dress
She said "You gotta get a pizza tonight
I’m not staying in the house depressed"