I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
(Tom Waits/K. Brennan)
When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night /
I don’t wanna grow up /
Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right /
I don’t wanna grow up /
How do you move in a world of fog /
That’s always changing things /
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay /
I don’t wanna grow up /
I don’t ever wanna be that way /
I don’t wanna grow up
Seems like folks turn into things /
That they’d never want /
The only thing to live for /
Is today… /
I’m gonna put a hole in my TV set /
I don’t wanna grow up /
Open up the medicine chest /
And I don’t wanna grow up
I don’t wanna have to shout it out /
I don’t want my hair to fall out /
I don’t wanna be filled with doubt /
I don’t wanna be a good boy scout /
I don’t wanna have to learn to count /
I don’t wanna have the biggest amount /
I don’t wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight /
I don’t wanna grow up /
They all go out and drinking all night /
And I don’t wanna grow up
I’d rather stay here in my room /
Nothin’ out there but sad and gloom /
I don’t wanna live in a big old Tomb /
On Grand Street
When I see the 5 o’clock news /
I don’t wanna grow up /
Comb their hair and shine their shoes /
I don’t wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown /
I don’t wanna put no money down /
I don’t wanna get me a big old loan /
Work them fingers to the bone
I don’t wanna float a broom /
Fall in love and get married then boom /
How the hell did I get here so soon /
I don’t wanna grow up
