I Don’t Wanna Grow Up Songtext
von 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 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