Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up lyrics

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night

I don't wanna grow up

nothin' ever seems to turn out right

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 gow up

I don't ever wanna be that way

I don't wanna grow up

Seems like folks turn into things that they'd 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

and I don't wanna gow up

I don't wanna have to shout it out

I don't wanna be filled with doubt

I don't wanna be a good boy scout

I don't wannt have to learn to count

I don't wanna have the biggest amount

I don't wanna grow up

Well when I see my parents fight

I don't wanna gow up

they all go out and drinking 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 me a big old loan

work them fingers to the bone

I don't wanna float a broom

fall in love and get married then boom

how the hell did it get here so soon

I don't wanna grow up