they said you'll grow up someday soon enough the days gonna come when you put in your nine to five just like the next man they said your friends will be fly by nights so decide your fate at fourteen all of them live someone else's dream to be sold they all look down their nose on me like I'm below them all of them said to go nowhere is a disease so decide you're running out of time [chorus] that's what they always used to say to me and you when we dream of a different day the voices were there to remind us that we're getting old and our worst fears were right all along they said you'd grow up someday soon enough the days gonna come when you put in your nine to five just like the next man all of them said to go nowhere is a disease so decide your fate at fourteen.
