I Don't Want to Grow Up

When I'm lying in my bed at night, I don't wanna grow up

Nothing ever seems to turn out right and 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 and I don't wanna grow up

Seems that folks turn into things that they 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, 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 want the biggest amount

No, I don't want to 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

Nothing 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 ol' loan

Work them fingers to the bone

I don't wanna float on a broom

Fall in love, get married then boom

How the hell did it get here so soon?

No, I don't want to grow up