You see the posters up around my room   And you ask me if I'm going to get up soon   And I say I think I'm fine here today      I know you wonder about the friends I run with   And I know you rifle through my room when I'm out   You'll never find out what I'm about      But I hear you no matter what you think   Because I know there is good in all your preaching   What I am I got from you   But you need to learn how to listen to me      I won't grow up because life can be so cold   I'm going to live in my dreams   Even if I'll die to see them through   I don't want to wake up a half a century older   Wanting to be a quarter century new   Quarter century new      I did my time    I got through school   Left it all and made my rules that day   The day we got away   A different time I'm a different person   And I grew into the look you thought was a curse for so long   IÂ've always been a little to far gone      But I hear you no matter what you think   Because I know there is good in all your preaching   What I am I got from you   But you need to learn how to listen to me      Now, I won't grow up because life can be so cold   I'm gonna live in these dreams   Even if I die to see them through   I don't want to wake up a half a century older   No wanting to be a quarter century new   Quarter Century New