(tom waits/k. brennan)

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


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