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While I'm lying in my bed at night   I don't wanna grow up 
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 
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 
D                                  A 
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 
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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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D                                     A 
When I see my parents fight           I don't want to grow up 
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 
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I don't wanna live in a big ol tomb on Grand St. 
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When I see the 5 0' 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 ol hometown  Don't wanna put no money down 
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Don't wanna get a big ol loan   Work them fingers to the bone 
I dont' wanna float on a broom  Fall in love get married then boom 
how the hell did it get here so soon 
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No I don't want to grow up