"Grow Up" lyrics

Grow up
When you're young and you're dumb only thing that you want is to grow up
But you don't really know how fast it'll go till it shows up
While you're walking your bags out the front door
Fighting back tears at the airport
Asking yourself what you do it for

'Cause growing up
For me means missing home
Birthdays through the phone, another year without me
Feels like everyone around me
Is growing up
And I can't stop it happening
But if goodbyes are all it is
Maybe I just don't wanna

Grow up
Seeing Dad once a year and the gray in his beard taking over
Thinking 'bout how I won't be around while we're both getting older
While I'm packing my bags for another flight
Fighting back tears, holding him tight
Hoping it won't be the last time

'Cause growing up
For me means missing home
And birthdays through the phone, another year without me
Feels like everyone around me
Is growing up
And I can't stop it happening
But if goodbyes are all it is
Maybe I just don't wanna

Grow up
Or I'm just scared of wasting years
I wish they'd slow up
It just ain't fair, one night I swear
I went to sleep 18 and drunk on life
Woke up hungover, 29
With the same damn dream
I still can't believe

Growing up
That's rare it happened overnight
At 27 now we fly
I left the gate and I realized

That growing up
For me means missing home
Heartbreak through the phone, moving on without me
Feels like everyone around me
Is growing up
And I can't stop it happening
But if goodbyes are all it is
Maybe I just don't wanna grow up

Maybe I just don't wanna grow up