Eighties song lyric "I was wrong and I admit it"
Executive summary
A review of the supplied lyric sources finds multiple modern and post‑1990s songs that include variants of "I was wrong" and "I admit it," but no clear match to an eighty‑era song that contains the exact line "I was wrong and I admit it" in the materials provided [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. The available databases list many songs containing "I was wrong" or "I admit," yet none of the snippets supplied identify an explicitly eighties release with that exact combined wording [8] [9].
1. The landscape: many songs confess, few are eighties‑tagged
The supplied sources show that confession lines are a common lyrical theme across genres and decades — examples include Mims’ hook repeating "I did you wrong, I admit I did" in a contemporary rap track [1], Rich The Kid and Lil Wayne trading the line "I admit it / I was wrong, but I had to get it" in a recent hip‑hop song [2], and R. Kelly’s "I Admit" which uses the phrase "I admit" as a confessional pivot [10]; however, none of those entries are identified in the supplied material as originating in the 1980s [1] [2] [10].
2. Close matches in the sample: phrasing that resembles the query
Several entries in the provided reporting contain partial matches that combine admission and "I was wrong" in different forms: Charlie Puth’s "How Long" includes "I'll admit, I was wrong" in its opening lines and is discussed as a post‑2010 single [4] [7], Dave Hollister’s R&B ballad repeatedly sings "I'm wrong... I admit it" in the chorus [3], and The Kid LAROI explicitly writes "I'm never scared to admit when I'm wrong" in a contemporary track [5]. These are direct textual matches to the components of the user’s quoted phrase but are not dated to the eighties within the supplied snippets [3] [4] [5] [7].
3. What the lyric aggregators show — and their limits
Lyrics.com and related lyric aggregator searches in the sources compile lists of songs containing "I was wrong" and "I admit," pointing to many entries across eras [8] [9], but the snippets provided do not single out an eighty‑era original that contains the exact combined line "I was wrong and I admit it." Aggregators can surface many partial matches, but the supplied extracts do not include metadata tying any specific match to the 1980s, so the current dataset cannot confirm an eighties origin for that exact phrase [8] [9].
4. Notable near‑neighbors and dating where possible
One notable near‑neighbor in the material, Social Distortion’s "I Was Wrong," is discussed as a composition appearing in the 1996 context [6], making it post‑eighties; Charlie Puth’s "How Long" was teased and released in the late 2010s and contains an explicit "I'll admit, I was wrong" line [7]. A recently released song titled "I Admit That I Was Wrong" by Jd Kucharik is listed as a 2024 track [11]. These anchors show that the exact wording appears across decades, but again the supplied reporting does not supply an eighty‑ties original with that exact wording [6] [7] [11].
5. Conclusion and recommended next steps for verification
Based on the supplied reporting and lyric snippets, a definitive eighties song containing the exact lyric "I was wrong and I admit it" cannot be identified; the evidence instead points to multiple later songs and aggregator lists that include similar phrasing [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [11] [8] [9]. To close the gap, targeted searches of eighties catalogues on major lyric databases and archival liner notes are recommended, as well as searching exact‑phrase queries in scanned lyric books or magazine archives from the 1980s; the current sources simply do not provide an explicit 1980s match for that exact line.