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  • Your little hand's wrapped around my finger And it's so quiet in the world tonight

  • Your little eyelids flutter cause you're dreaming So I tuck you in, turn on your favorite night

  • light To you everything's funny, you got nothing

  • to regret I'd give all I have, honey

  • If you could stay like that

  • Oh darling, don't you ever grow up Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little

  • Oh darling, don't you ever grow up Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this

  • simple I won't let nobody hurt you, won't let no

  • one break your heart And no one will desert you

  • Just try to never grow up, never grow up

  • You're in the car on the way to the movies And you're mortified your mom's dropping you

  • off At 14 there's just so much you can't do

  • And you can't wait to move out someday and call your own shots

  • But don't make her drop you off around the block

  • Remember that she's getting older too And don't lose the way that you dance around

  • in your pj's getting ready for school

  • Oh darling, don't you ever grow up Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little

  • Oh darling, don't you ever grow up Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this

  • simple No one's ever burned you, nothing's ever left

  • you scarred And even though you want to, just try to never

  • grow up

  • Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room

  • Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home

  • Remember the footsteps, remember the words said

  • And all your little brother's favorite songs I just realized everything I have is someday

  • gonna be gone

  • So here I am in my new apartment In a big city, they just dropped me off

  • It's so much colder that I thought it would be

  • So I tuck myself in and turn my night light on

  • Wish I'd never grown up I wish I'd never grown up

  • Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up

  • I could still be little Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown

  • up It could still be simple

  • Oh darling, don't you ever grow up Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little

  • Oh darling, don't you ever grow up Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this

  • simple Won't let nobody hurt you

  • Won't let no one break your heart And even though you want to, please try to

  • never grow up Oh, don't you ever grow up

  • Oh, never grow up, just never grow up

Your little hand's wrapped around my finger And it's so quiet in the world tonight

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