When I Get Older

When I get older

I'm gonna be stronger

So I can lift up the whole entire world

I'm gonna hold it

And lift it higher

Higher than it's been before

When I hear music

I get excited

I'm gonna sing songs to the whole entire world

And when the whole world sings to the music

That's when I'll know it worked

But my friends say I'm still a baby

Then they threw away my baby shoes

Well, excuse me, I'm going sailing

Into the ocean blue

When I get older

I'm gonna be wilder

And write poetry in my spare time

And I'll use some very interesting metaphors

And then post my poems online

Here's a poem about rain

And the water droplets that it creates

And I wonder if you feel it this way

And I wonder if it seems okay

Here's a poem about fame

And the strange things famous people say

And the strange world that hears them say it

Almost every single day

When I get older

I'm gonna drive slowly

Till I get to all the places I'm going

And when I get there I'm gonna drive backwards

Till we get home again

And I'm faced with so many changes

That I just might change my face

But face paint seems a bit tenacious

So I just might paint my brain

When I get younger

I'm gonna be a liar

I'll be lying about being so young

Then when I'm older

I'll be more truthful

And then lie about singing this song

Then the song will sing me

And the song won't sing it for free

And I don't quite know what it means

And it feels like the song knows me

Then I'm hearing it in my dreams

And each dream seems pretty sweet

And the music cured my disease

Then the song's complete

When I get older

I'm gonna be stronger

So I can lift up the whole entire world

I'm gonna hold it

And lift it higher

Then I'll lift it more