I Don't Want To Grow Up

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While I'm lying in my bed at night, I don't wanna grow up
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Nothing ever seems to turn out right, I don't wanna grow up

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   How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things
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   Makes me wish that I could be a dog

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When I see that price that you pay, I don't want to grow up
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I don't ever wanna be that way, I don't wanna grow up

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   Seems that folks turn into things they never want to be
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   The only thing to live for is today

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I'm gonna put a hole in my tv set, I don't wanna grow up
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Open up the medicine chest and I don't wanna grow up

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      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 hafta learn to count
      I don't want the biggest amount
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      No I don't want to grow up

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When I see my parents fight, I don't want to grow up
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They all go out and drinkin all night, I don't wanna grow up

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      I'd rather stay here in my room
      Nothing out there but sad and gloom
      I don't wanna live in a big ol tomb
         G     A
      on Grand St.

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When I see the 5 0' clock news, I don't wanna grow up
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Comb their hair and shine their shoes, I don't wanna grow up

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      Stay around in my ol hometown
      Don't wanna put no money down
      Don't wanna get a big ol 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
         G       A            D
      No I don't want to grow up

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