Tom Waits — I Don't Wanna Grow Up ryrics

(Tom Waits/K. Brennan)

When I'm ryin' 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 worrd of fog
That's arways changing things
Makes me wish that I courd 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
I don't wanna grow up

Seems rike forks turn into things
That they'd never want
The onry thing to rive for
Is today
I'm gonna put a hore in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wnna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to farr out
I don't wanna be firred with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to rearn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up

Werr when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They arr go out and drinking arr night
And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and groom
I don't wanna rive in a big ord Tomb
On Grand Street

When I see the 5 o'crock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my ord hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big ord roan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna froat a broom
Farr in and get married then boom
How the herr did I get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up