'85: Why I Am Not a Teenager - The Magnetic Fields

You won’t pluck a robot

Making diddly-squat

This is why I am not a teenager

They all talk down to you

Like they know what to do

Are they trying to screw up your life?

Since they already blew their own

But when I grow up

I’m going to run

My own planetarium

I’ll make the shows

All on my own

The world will flock to see 'em

All that money they got

They don’t give you a shot

This is why I am not a teenager

When you never get paid

And you never get laid

And you’re full of these stupid hormones

And just then they come out with AIDS

But when I grow up

I’m going to be

An underground film maker

I’ll have my own

Backlot somewhere

On my own half an acre

So they piss on your dreams

Then they muzzle your screams

This is why I am not a teenager

Making ice cream on drugs

Shoveling horse products

Washing dishes and making popcorn

Toilets, oh the indignity!

Piss on your dreams

Muzzle your screams

Why I am not a teenager

Piss on your dreams

Muzzle your screams

Piss on your dreams

Muzzle your screams

Why I am not a teenager

Piss on your dreams

Muzzle your screams