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