Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Written by Tom Waits it appears on Track 14 of the album Bone Machine, the song is a ballad of teenage angst and youthfulness. It’s about maintaining your own dignity and not conforming to the views of others.
Overall it is a rejection of the status quo and the way the world is.
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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
Well when I see the price that you pay, I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever want to 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 TV set and I don't wanna grow up
Yeah gonna open up the medicine chest and 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 wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight, I don't wanna grow up
They all go out 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 Grant Street
When I see the five o'clock news, I don't wanna grow up
They comb their hair and shine their shoes, I don't wanna grow up
Rather stick around the 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 learn to 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