Growing Pains Lyrics
(You are)
But home's looking farther the closer I get
Don't know why I can't see the end
Is it over yet?
A short leash and a short fuse don't match
They tell me it ain't that bad
Now don't you overreact
So I just hold my breath, don't know why
I can't see the sun when young should be fun (fun)
Gotta be wrong before it's right
Every happy phrase engraved in my mind
And I've always been a go-getter
There's truth in every word I write
But still the growing pains, growing pains
They're keeping me up at night
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
And I can't hide
'Cause growing pains are keeping me up at night
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
And I can't hide
'Cause growing pains are keeping me up at night
As I take on the stress of the mess that I've made
Don't know if I even care for "grown"
If it's just alone
Gotta be wrong before it's right
Every happy phrase engraved in my mind
I've always been a go-getter
There's truth in every word I write
But still the growing pains, growing pains
They're keeping me up at night
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
And I can't hide
'Cause growing pains are keeping me up at night
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
And I can't hide
'Cause growing pains are keeping me up at night
Can't take her own advice
Can't find pieces of peace of mind, I cry
More than I want to admit
But I can't lie to myself, to anyone
'Cause phonin' it in isn't any fun
Can't run back to my youth the way I want to
The days my brother was quicker to fool
AM radio, not much to do
Used monsters as an excuse to lie awake
Now the monsters are the ones that I have to face
No band-aids for the growing pains
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
No, no band-aids for the growing pains
As with any of her songs, in "Growing Pains" Alessia Cara proves yet again that she is my spirit animal. I mean, she literally says "I cry more than I want to admit." Has she been watching me or something? Or watching every directionless millennial for that matter? Alessia Cara takes on the task of narrating the pains that all of us face from transitioning from childhood into adulthood, and she hits the nail on the head. As we go about our lives coining fun terms like "adulting" to ease the those growing pains and the difficulties we're suddenly going through, we're made to face the fact that we, like everything around us, are changing, and that can be a tough pill to swallow. Alessia talks about how we, like every generation before us, have parents and others who have been adulting for much longer than us, telling us that it'll all get better and that we just need to relax. But I think anyone can admit that just because there's a light at the end of the tunnel, that doesn't make the darkness feel any less dark. Like Alessia says, there are "no band-aids for the growing pains."