they said you'll grow up someday soon enough

the days gonna come when you put in your nine to five just like the next man

they said your friends will be fly by nights

so decide your fate at fourteen

all of them live someone else's dream to be sold

they all look down their nose on me like I'm below them

all of them said to go nowhere is a disease

so decide you're running out of time

that's what they always used to say to me and you

when we dream of a different day

the voices were there to remind us that we're getting old

and our worst fears were right all along

they said you'd grow up someday soon enough

the days gonna come when you put in your nine to five just like the next man

all of them said to go nowhere is a disease so decide your fate at fourteen