I Don't Want to Grow Up

Ramones

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't want to grow up
Nothing ever seems to turn out right
I don't want to grow up

How do you move in a world of fog that's
Always changing things
Makes wish that I could be a dog

When I see the price that you pay
I don't want to grow up
I don't ever want to be that way
I don't want to grow up

Seems that folks turn into things
That they never want
The only thing to live for is today...

I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. 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 shout it out
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 to have the biggest amount
I don't want to grow up

Well when I see my parents fight
I don't want to grow up
They all go out and drinkin' all night
I don't want to grow up

I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't want to live in a big old tomb on
Grand street
When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't want to grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't want to grow up

Stay around in my old hometown
I don't want to put no money down
I don't want to get a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't want to float on a broom
Fall in love, get married then boom
How the hell did it get here so soon

I don't want to grow up


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I Don't Want To Grow Up Lyrics as written by Thomas Alan Waits Kathleen Brennan

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    You're all idiots. I'm well aware of the Ramones' superiority to Blink 182. This song is actually one of my all-time favourites, along with a few others and surprise surprise, no blink songs.

    However, I think Carousel is a good song, anyone wants to call me out on that, go ahead. The two songs have exactly the same message.

    And by the way, I don't think dead people can come out of their graves. How old are you guys? 10? And if dead people could come out of their graves, I'd like to think they'd have better things to do.

    But thanks for the laugh anyway, I guess there is a reason to have stupid people in the world.

    Anti-Everything_Guyon August 29, 2008   Link

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