I Don't Wanna Grow Up

Kathleen Brennan / Tom Waits

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 gow 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 it get here so soon?
I don't wanna grow up

Trivia about the song I Don't Wanna Grow Up by Tom Waits

When was the song “I Don't Wanna Grow Up” released by Tom Waits?
The song I Don't Wanna Grow Up was released in 1992, on the album “Bone Machine”.
Who composed the song “I Don't Wanna Grow Up” by Tom Waits?
The song “I Don't Wanna Grow Up” by Tom Waits was composed by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits.

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