WhenIGrowUp

When I Grow Up - Tim Minchin

When I grow up

I will be tall enough to reach the branches

That I need to reach to climb the trees

You get to climb when you're grown up

And when I grow up

I will be smart enough to answer

All the questions that you need to know

The answers to before you're grown up

And when I grow up I will eat sweets

Everyday on the way to work and I

Will go to bed late every night

And I will wake up when the sun

Comes up and I will watch cartoons

Until my eyes go square

And I won't care because I'll be all grown up

When I grow up

When I grow up when I grow up when I grow up

I will be strong enough to carry

All the heavy things you have to haul around

When you a grown up

Grown up

And when I grow up when

I grow up when I grow up

I will be brave enough to fight the creatures

That you have to fight beneath the bed

Each night to be a grown up

And when I grow up when I grow up

I will have treats everyday

And I'll play with things that mum pretends

That mums don't think are fun

And I will wake up I will wake up

When the sun comes up and I will spend

All day just lying in the sun

And I won't burn because I'll be all grown up

When I grow up

When I grow up

I will be brave enough to fight the creatures

That you have to fight beneath

The bed each night to be a grown up

When I grow up

Just because you find that life's not fair

It doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it

If you always take it on the chin and wear it

Nothing will change

When I grow up

Just because I find myself in this story

It doesn't mean that everything is written for me

If I think the ending is fixed already

I might as well be saying

I think that it's ok

And that's not right