I Don't Want To Grow Up

Tom Waits / Kathleen Brennan

1, 2, 3, 4

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 drinkin' 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 a big old 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

Trivia about the song I Don't Want To Grow Up by Ramones

On which albums was the song “I Don't Want To Grow Up” released by Ramones?
Ramones released the song on the albums “Adios Amigos” in 1995, “Série Gold: Ramones” in 1996, “The Chrysalis Years Anthology” in 2002, and “Best of the Chrysalis Years” in 2004.
Who composed the song “I Don't Want To Grow Up” by Ramones?
The song “I Don't Want To Grow Up” by Ramones was composed by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

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