This'll Be My Year

In '85
Tuesday morning
Came alive
I didn't know ya
Route 66 is gone
And Reagan's here
It won't be long.

Nintendo comes
Live Aid, too
Back to the Future
Where were you
While I spent all my days
In Catholic school?

In '89
The dream begins
First in line to California
Pete Rose is banned for good
The Simpsons come to Hollywood
Russia leaves Afghanistan
Flight 103 ends Pan Am
Bush is here
This is the year
That I feel most alone.

No more
Countin' down the hours
No more
Wishin' you were here
I stopped believin'
Although Journey told me 'don't'
Before I call it a day
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year.

In '92
A boy is born
The skies were blue
In Ohio
Boris Yeltsin chills
Freddie dies
But Queen is still
Barcelona has the games
Lady Di is single again
Clinton wins
And I still dream
That I'll find you someday.

In '97
A baby girl
Adds some heaven to the world
Tony Blair tips the scales
Elton sings for the Princess of Wales
Microsoft buys into Mac
My dad has a second heart attack
And Train leaves San Francisco
In a thousand-dollar van.

No more
Countin' down the hours
No more
Wishin' you were here
I stopped believin'
Although Journey told me 'don't'
Before I call it a day
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year.

2001
The towers fell
The World is stunned
I wish I knew ya
I was on a plane
The world would never be the same
The artificial heart is born--
Ironic when New York's is torn out
Woah-oah-oah-oah.

2004
Began in May
On tour when I met ya
Facebook joins the Internet
Oldsmobile joins the cassette
I met your family
It took a while until you kissed me
But when you did
I finally felt at home.

I stopped believin'
Although Journey told me 'don't'
Before I call it a day
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year
Maybe this'll be my year.

2012
And all I know
Is everybody comes and goes
Everybody sings and cries
Makes the grade and takes the prize
In somethin', nothin', I don't care
Because I always know that you'll be here
With me.