I Don't Want To Grow Up

When I'm lying in my bed at night, I don't want to grow up.

Nothing ever seems to turn out right, and I don't want to grow up.

How do you move in a world with fog that's always changing things?

Makes me wish that I could be a dog.

When I see the prosecutor, I don't want to grow up.

I don't ever want to be that way, but I don't want to grow up.

Since those folks turned into things that they never want,

the only thing to live for is today.

I'm going to run a home with my TV set, I don't want to grow up.

Open up the medicine chest, I don't want to grow up.

I don't want to have to share me down. I don't want my hair to fall out. I don't want to be filled with doubt. I don't want to be a good boy scout. I don't want to have to learn to count. I don't want the biggest amount. No, I don't want to grow up.

When I see my parents fight, I don't want to grow up.

They all go out and drinking all night, and I don't want to grow up.

I'd rather stay here in my room, nothing out there but sand and glue.

I don't want to live in a big old tube on Grand Street.

When I see the five o'clock news, I don't want to grow up

On their hair and shiny shoes, I don't want to grow up

Stay a friend in my old hometown

I don't want to put no money down

I don't want to get me a gold loan

For some things to the bone

I don't want to float on a moon

Fall in love, get married and move

How the hell did I get here so soon

I don't want to grow up