I don't want to grow up

The Ramones
Música y Letras: Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan



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When I'm lyin' 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 the 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 want to 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 T.V. 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 wanna have the biggest amount,
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,
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 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?
I don't want to grow up.