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Taylor Swift – Never Grow Up lyrics
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
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Songwriters: Taylor Swift
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    Unregistered 2012-04-23 00:05:12
    I really love this song. And I never, never, never, never want to grow up. I find myself atually getting depressed (sort of) when I relize that I am getting older. So, yea. But now I am kinda just letting life take its own path and I am not so worried what age I am. Not worried about the way ahead. I am just taking it slow. I guess. But I looove this song. : D. Thanks taylor!
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    Charlie_X_X 2011-07-14 10:51:16
    Everytime I sing this song, I cry, everytime I jst read the lyrics, it sends down shivers down my spine, I think taylor is a powerful writer, and alwyas knows how to woo an audience, I am the first child inmy family, and to my mother, I am always her baby, even though I say "mummy shove off, im a big girllie now, i dont need you to baby me," I'm 14 this september, and taylor has made me realise that maybe I should be more nice to my mum, shes not even old yet, (*36*) yet she acts really embarrassing, picking out frillly pink dresses, and picking out clothes for me to take to my friends, I pick them up and put them aawya again, coz they really horriblw. She only does it coz she knows I ghtae it x I love my mummy x
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    Unregistered 2012-04-26 03:49:47
    For me, it means live your life while you're young 'cause you won't stay young forever, even you don't want to grow. Atleast when you grow, you have the experience of a happy childhood to reminisce and you don't have the hesitation that you could make when you grow up like danmcing with your father and open problems to your mother. Unlike me, I really hate my parents, but when I heard this song, it makes me realize that I should love my parents because they are the gratest gift that god gave to me and should keep them as long as they are just around.
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    Unregistered 2015-03-17 20:20:38
    I should have read this earlier. I stopped living when I was about 11. Now after 15 years I can't even imagine how much I have missed because of it. It's painful to wake up and see that all those years I could've been living instead of wasting. Now I should act like an adult but its hard to start it now when all my friends have lived the whole time and used time wisely and don't need to regret any no-lives. Taylors words hit the weak area in my life. I wish I was stronger when I was young and continued to believe and live and dream.
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    Twilight12345 2012-05-14 18:54:36
    I'm 11 but I feel I am growing up to quickly if you know what I mean. Cause suddenly I have a crush on this amazing boy and suddenly I like cloth shopping and its all going so fast. I wish for just one week my life would just slow down so I could be with my family. This song is awesome and it totally explains how I feel, taylor swift fan forever!
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    Unregistered 2012-04-20 06:42:46
    I thank taylor so much for making me realize that. I wont stay young forever. I'm growing up(12) now. And I need to enjoy my life. I've always told my mum that she's really embarrassing me. That I hated her. Thanks to this song. I realized that. My mum wont stay alive forever. Every time I hear this I cry. Now I realized that I need to take care of my parents and just wait for the time when i'll finally grow up. Right now. I'm having the time of my life thank to this song. Thank you taylor :) and I love you mummy.
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    Unregistered 2012-04-10 18:38:24
    I wish someone would have felt that way about me when I was little. Instead of telling me to grow up. Now with my kids I'm keeping them little. They hold my fingers because my hand is still to big to hold I watch them giggle and roll down the hall and let them eat cereal for dinner. They won't do it forever. I love them that is my meaning.
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    Unregistered 2012-03-29 14:55:28
    I will leave my parents in about two months later. I really close to my mom and my pops I even got jealous everytime someone try to take them away from me. Haha the only one I approved is my sisters. And now here I am. Gonna go for my future. Please mom and dad. Stay healthy and see your son be a doctor just like what yoy always told me when I was a little brat: ')
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    Unregistered 2012-03-20 14:56:31
    Life's a constant change. Little people wanting to grow and grown ups wanting to never grow up. We never really know what lies ahead of us. Being little being happy in the simplest ways.
    This song made me realize how scared I am with the world, when finally the day woould come knowing I'm not holding my dad and mum's hands anymore, but my own hands clasped hard with each other trying to keep warm in this cold, cold world. I'm scared. :(
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    Unregistered 2012-03-19 23:01:35
    To me this song represents the fact that when you're little, everything is easier. And as you grow it seems as if things just get harder and harder. You never have regrets. Even when you're a teenager all you want is to grow up and be your own person with your own responsibilities. As mother's we don't want our children to not need us anymore; we want to keep them safe and happy. When they are all grown up all you want to take care of them forever!
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    Unregistered 2012-03-18 11:08:46
    Well, louis tomlinson, you know, from one direction. He "signed up" for the xfactor alone. He was a bit shy, but he was loving life and he really wanted to be a singer, although he didn't think he was good enought, he tried. He got in! He became friends with four of the most amazing boys in the world and his confidence was growing. Now everyone knows that he is absolutely crazy and funny like hell. He wasn't that happy when he turned 20 though. He wanted to be forever young. He wanted to enjoy life forever. He wanted to be that little boy again. You know when you're up watching the tv and fall asleep on the couch, and all of a sudden the next day you're sleeping in your bed, it was like magic. He missed when you believed in everything. Every single thing, and you had absolutely nothing to worry about. I think we all miss it. But he grew up to a beautiful, caring, handsome, good-hearted, understanding young man. But no matter what he is going to stay as crazy as he is now and was a couple of years ago. Nothing will ever get to him. He is always happy - automatically gets everyone in a good mood. He is almost never in a fight with his lads because he can make them laugh in a second before they can even say a word. He is loved by all his fans, but this is only a part of it. It's just because he is teaching everyone to live life, and do your own thing. Don't let anyone bring you down, cause life is too short. He makes thousands and thousands of girls smile everyday just by looking at him, because they know what he is capable of. And they love him. And he loves them back. So I am dedicating this song to him. He doesn't want to grow up but he doesn't have a choice. I love him no matter what and I don't want to see him get hurt. He's worth too much.
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    Unregistered 2012-03-08 08:35:05
    You must ask yourself when did you last say I love you so much to your parents. When did you say sorry. You don't know right. Because you stopped it when you were growing up. Try to say that to your parents because deep inside them they love you so much. And they didn't want you to experience what they experienced when they were a child. They love you so much. Remember that. : dshow your love to them. Say sorry for all your faults and they will sincerely accept that apology. Because they know that you are sincere for what you said. People get shy saying I love you and sorry but if you just try it. You will see yourself before and after. Cause when you were a child you keep saying that but now growing up. Tskkk. Stopped it and didn't never said it again.
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    Unregistered 2012-03-08 08:29:16
    This song means if you ever grow up once. Never change your attitude to your parents cause they let you grow up for what and who you are. They made you for who you are. They love you so much so show you care and love for them. : d because you will never know when your parents will die because you don't know when god will take them from you because that's how the life goes. So as long as you have time. Show your care and bond with them.
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    Unregistered 2012-03-01 05:37:08
    Its a song about how we all want to act older all our lives, but in reality it isn't that great. 'its so much colder than I though it would be'. Its a really emotional and honest song, showing that when you are young, everything is so simple, but as you grow older things get tough, and you can get hurt and theres nothing to protect you from the world.
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    Unregistered 2012-02-11 17:00:24
    I look at this song as a mom of an 18 year old daughter who has grown up much too fast. You can't understand the depth of this song until you become a parent and that time just flies past you like a bird, here one minute and literally gone the next. I'm the mom in the song, getting older, trying to hold onto that little hand, that is getting bigger and is letting go.
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    Unregistered 2012-02-01 01:34:34
    This song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Especially the line where she says "i just realized everything i have is someday gonna be gone". I want to keep my little kid room, with the pink flowers, and pick fights with my little brother where we both end up laughing, and dance around all crazy in the back of the car with my friends to the radio. I know I'm going to miss that, and I worry about all the responsibilities I know I'm going to have as an adult. Thank you so much, taylor, for writing such an incredible and touching song.
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    Unregistered 2012-01-24 02:18:17
    Taylor wrote this when she moved out of her parent's house as you can tell her messasge. However, she also said that she knows that everyone's in a rush to grow up, and wants to sing it to her younger crowd. To tell them that sometimes you just want to live in the simple innocence of childhood. I really love this song, and it made me cry, wishing I was little again: ')
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    Unregistered 2012-01-14 03:12:02
    It's a very meaningfull song. I believe that there's an angel and it looking after its child-to-guard. The angel wants that childs never grow up, never changes his personality and his innocent spirit 'cause when he grow up he would get hurt and will realize to late that e is no logenr a child that have everyting he wants just asking his parents. That lives gets harder with the pass of time.
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    Unregistered 2011-12-30 12:51:06
    I'm- I'm completely terrified of growing up, 12 years old. I'm trying as hard as I can not to turn into a teen. But its just getting to hard! I don't know why I torture myself with this song. I still say mummy, and everybody stares andy me, because they act 15. I can barely see the screen, I'm crying so hard. Somehow I feel like, it's gonna be over, soon. And I'm 12. I feel like I need guidance. It such a moving song. I'm hugging my teddy, I'm so sad!
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    Unregistered 2011-12-22 02:16:49
    It's funny cause my dad used to say "i'd give all i have for you to never grow up", and now that I am older I think about it. My dad will never come and tuck me in anymore and when I first herd this song me and my dad were driving down the road. On my way to the first day of my freshman year. I almost cried, it means the world to have songs that tell story's of my life:)
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    Unregistered 2011-12-20 04:10:39
    As I hear this song, I cry everytime. I dedicate this to my 3 amazing boys (ages 10, 6, 2). I became a momma at the age of 15, my life began just too soon because I was so anxious as a girl to 'grow up'. The only thing I want my kids to know is that they have all the time in the world to grow up so be patient and let time take it's place. Momma loves you boys!
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    Unregistered 2011-12-06 20:07:29
    This is going to be my song to my baby girl. I want her to enjoy every second of her childhood. Because she will eventually grow up and have to be faced with life's problems and desions. Because, I want to be that little girl that I used to be. I want to "just stay this little". I know my mom loved when I was that small. I was her world because it was just us to until I was 7 months old and she wanted me sooo much and then she finally got me. This song just is so perfect.
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    Unregistered 2011-11-23 21:59:38
    My little brother is 10, he says he can't wait to be my age, cause I'm 12 and my parents have started to give me a bit more freedom and they are starting to treat me a bit like an adult,. Little bro don't grow up too fast. I like you the way you are now. This song reminds me of when I was a little kid I could get away with anything I did. I look at my 1 year old niece and I wish I could go back to being her age.
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    Unregistered 2011-10-24 17:40:08
    I can really understand where taylor's coming from. I've gone off to college now, in my "new apartment" and it is much colder than I thought it was gonna be. I miss my old home. And I understand when she says "it could stay this simple". When your'e young, you have no worries, you are basically free. When you grow up you get hurt, burned and scarred. Life isn't as simple as it used to be. But that's what growing up is. I miss being young though. Having no worries, no one hurts you. You feel free.
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    Unregistered 2015-11-02 23:05:03
    I love this song! It is so powerful, and I am playing it on the guitar for a concert. I am truthfully scared to "grow up". I mean I want to get older and be married and be following my husbands leading, but at the same time I don't want to have to make my own decisions and take care of everything and be my own boss. I, at 14, know what it's like to be growing up and how your parents don't want you too. I didn't realize how everything I have now, when I'm older it's going to be gone. You don't realize how quickly God can take things away.
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    Unregistered 2015-04-30 06:32:04
    I'm almost grown up, compared to my cousins. I'm 12 and I'm an only child. My favourite cousin left the country a 3.5 years ago. I was there when she was born and was in fact the first to hold her in my arms(even before her parents). We lived in the same apartment with our parents. We spent all our time together. Although I might not be the one whom she loves most in the world, but I really love her the most. She is just a child and she will meet many more people in her life whom she will love much more than me and I guess no one will ever know how much I love her. I guess my Uncle and Aunt just had to set up a business in the country 7 hours flight away from where I lived. The last time I met her was nine month ago hardly for a day at a family emergency. She'll be six years this July (2015). This is the song I'm going to sing to her on her birthday when I call her. I really regret not having the time of my life when I was her age and now I have a thousand problems to deal with. I never want her to grow up, I'll promise to let no one hurt her. I never want her to forget me or the things we had done when she was little. Thank you Taylor. I can't stop myself from crying right now. I want her to come back.
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    Unregistered 2012-08-20 00:39:17
    She wants all her fans to see that childhood is great make the best of it and most kids just want to growup and be older. She is telling us what we have isn't always gonna be here. I should no I'm 11 in middle school tomorrow and I now don't have anyone to make me breakfast in the morning my mom says that I'm old enough to do it myself. So it's a strong mesage. I taylor swift.
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    SunflowerLove01 2022-06-14 02:42:40
    To me the song is talking about an adult talking to a child saying its ok and that they don't want you to grow up and they didn't want to grow up either because its so much easier being a little kid. This song always makes me cry because it has a deep meaning to me and i never want to forget it.
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