Chairmen of Austin County - Growing Up Lyrics

Calling all impressionable queers
Are you sure you're ready for life out here?
It's cold and dark and your parents doubt you
Your life fell out of a weekly webcomic
There's safety in numbers
There's safety in friends
There's safety in pretending that you're just another normal one til the age of thirty six

And we kill ourselves for this
Our extended adolescence
We're never growing up
Because growing up
Means giving up, oh
And when there's nothing left to see
And when I've filled up my diary
We're never growing up
Because growing up
Means giving up, oh

They say it's time to wake up
I haven't talked to her since we broke up
I'll keep this living dream as long as we
Don't look in the mirror
There's a disconnect
In my head
My eyes see things my head won't believe, it's going to kill me

And we kill ourselves for this
Our extended adolescence
We're never growing up
Because growing up
Means giving up, oh
And when there's nothing left to smoke
And when we've lost all our hope
We're never growing up
Because growing up
Means giving up, oh

The world's on fire
And they don't care
No sir, my biggest problems
Have nothing to do with the way I wear my hair
You think that you see?
What's wrong with me?
It could fill a book
But you'd still judge it
By how the cover looks

And we kill ourselves for this
Our extended adolescence
We're never growing up
Because growing up
Means giving up, oh
And when there's no one new to meet
And all our friends are corporate zombies
We're never growing up
Because growing up
Means giving up, oh

And when our hair has all turned gray
And we have nothing left to say
And when the TV speaks to me
And we've lost all our privacy
If you turn out that light
We'll be warm tonight
We're never growing up
Because growing up
Means giving up, oh