[Verse 1]
Well, when I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seem 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

[Verse 2]
Well, 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
Seem like folks turn into things
That they'd never want
The only thing to live for is today

[Bridge]
I'm gonna put a hole 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 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
[Verse 3]
Well, when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow 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, ooh

[Outro]
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
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