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I don't know the specific song but I'd suggest having a look at this
list to see if anything looks familiar.
Taking a quick look through the list myself, I see on the page for Estelle's "1980" that she named that for the year she was born and wrote it about her childhood. So it's possible that could be what you're thinking of.
^^ No
^ It's not Estelle. It's a male singer in a rock band.
Found it: "1981" by Vanilla Sky.
Does anyone know what song this is? Its title is a number between 1960 and 1995. I think it's the male lead singer's birth year. It's about childhood and growing up. There's an English and a non-English version (Israeli? Hebrew? I can't remember).
Edited by Pichu-kun