The Growing Up Boy Lyrics

Friends wear the scars of the lessons you learn

And sit by the embers of bridges you burn

We all have a story and we each take a turn

Laughing at all your shit

And everyone is just somebody you knew

And you mean no harm by the things that you do

But saying it with tears don't make it true

It just makes hard to forget it

And the growing up boy never grows up

Stunted by fear and haunted by love

Too late to learn you've taken enough

Growing Up Boy

It's heartache, it's heartbreak, it's dark clouds and then

It's a day of self-pity and he's on the mend

He finds true love for the first time again

When the memory of last girl lapses

And he wakes up half hearted and looks at his phone

For a message to remind him that he's not alone

And he always has many but none are from home

So he goes back to bed and collapses

And the growing up boy never grows up

Stunted by fear and haunted by love

Too late to learn you've taken enough

Growing Up Boy

Today is your birthday, so I wrote in a card

But to say a kind word I just found it too hard

I erased what I meant so just disregard

And make what you want of this one

Love is not like the songs that you sing

How good you can play them well it don't mean a thing

If you steal every verse and break every string

And there's no one around when you're done

And the growing up boy never grows up

Stunted by fear and haunted by love

Too late to learn you've taken enough

Growing Up Boy

Grow up