In where our host discovers Tom Waits.

  I'm not the guy from 102.1 The Edge. I'm not going to do an essay about the history of this guy Tom Waits. He's been doing music before I was born, yet somehow I missed him. The video they had on Beavis and Butthead is vague in my mind, but I remember Beavis liking the video for I Don't Wanna Grow Up and the defiance against Butthead for wanting to change it.


  It was really only last night that it occured to me to check out some videos on youtube. His voice is rocks. It's the blues and midnight jazz, and old rock and roll, and he's got a catalogue like you wouldn't fucking believe. The one place I go to to find lyrics doesn't have everything this guy has done. He does look kinda like Ron Perlman, and that's who will most likely play him in a bio pic if it ever gets made. Or Tom will play himself as righteously as he played Mr Renfield in Bram Stoker Dracula.

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
how do you move in a world of fog
that's always changing things
makes me wish that I could be a dog
when I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna gow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up

Seems like folks turn into things that they'd never want
the only thing to live for is today...
I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set
I don't wanna grow up
open up the medicine chest
and I don't wanna gow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wannt have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up

Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna gow up
they all go out and drinking all night
and I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old tomb
on Grand Street

When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
fall in love and get married then boom
how the hell did it get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up