man of the 80's

i just wanna drift away and dream of miracles, but can't take my eyes off the road, my antenna must be switched on, and on alert, i have to focus and keep my brain at work, growing up with my eye on the americam dream, marilyn monroe and james dean, and i remember the day when elvis passed away, "the king is dead" - that's what the headlines used to say, now i know how i used to be blind, my knowledge grows, the vision shows, i've tried to learn from the highs and the lows, man of the '80s turns the radio on, takes him back when they play his favourite songs, far from the future was a life of the past, man of the '80s, i wish we could last, yes, i was a young boy back in '79, fm stations and tv in it's prime, mother teresa and her angels won the nobel prize, out of the cold war hope began to rise, berlin wall fell and tears of darkness dried in the sun, no more hiding, no more on the run, now it's out of fashion the predictions of our fall, millenium supposed to be the end of us all, and so i raise another glass of wine, and drink to life, i'll take the strife, i'm still ready to push and go, man of the '80s with his dream specs on, chasing shadows long dead and gone, he might look rusty, but he still feels like new, man of the '80s, my heart is you, we fought the winds that blew, through all the years that flew away, man of the '80s in the same old shoes, reading the future and the same old news, turning pages in the chapter he belongs, man of the '80s, still coming on strong, man of the '80s, man of the '80s, man of the '80s, hey. man of the '80s, man of the '80s, feel the fire so true, we're like one, we two, man of the '80s, it's me and you