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I Don't Want To Grow Up

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Ramones Canonical path: /ramones/i-don-t-want-to-grow-up Related lyric paths: 6

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I Don't Want To Grow Up

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When I'm lying in my bed at night

I don't wanna grow up

Nothing ever seems to turn out right

And 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

And I don't wanna 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 TV set

I don't wanna grow up

Open up the medicine chest

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 want the biggest amount

No, I don't want to grow up

Well, when I see my parents fight

I don't wanna grow up

They all go out and drinkin' all night

And I don't wanna grow up

I'd rather stay here in my room

Nothing 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 a big old loan

Work them fingers to the bone

I don't wanna float on a broom

Fall in love, get married, then boom

How the hell did it get here so soon?

No, I don't want to grow up

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