Lyrics
Music and Lyrics (cc) 2023 by Vincent Knobil
Em / B7
Grow the fuck up they say
You’re such a fucking child
Acting silly
So undignified
Grow the fuck up they say
You’re such a fucking child
Pushing sixty
Always asking why
Am / Em / B7
How big is the universe
How small is a quark
What do spiders and squid
Like to do for a lark
What’s their favorite color
What’s their favorite sound
What do they dance to
When no one’s around
G / B / C / B7
Cm / G / Eb / D
Stop acting silly
So undignified
Pushing twenty
Always asking why
Stop asking questions
Never satisfied
Pushing thirty
Always asking why
Why do people think
With other people’s brains
Why do they accept
To live a life of pain
Why don’t they rebel
Why don’t they stick it to the man
Why are they beset
By such a short attention-span
Why don’t they write melodies
Draw pictures of their dogs
Imagine endless stories
Like they did when they were tots
Why do they obey
Such dull and boring gods
Why do they fall pray
To the dumbest demagogues
Stop acting silly
So juvenile
Pushing forty
Always asking why
Stop asking questions
Never satisfied
Pushing fifty
Always asking why
Why aren’t we all jesters
Troubadours and clowns
Why the polyester
Why the constant frowns
Why the resignation
Why the doom and gloom
Why so little whimsy
All you adults in the room
Stop acting silly
So infantile
Pushing sixty
Always asking why
Stop asking questions
Never satisfied
Such a baby
Yes but still
alive