Album: Speak Now (2010)

Charted: 58

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• Your little hand's wrapped around my finger
  And it's so quiet in the world tonight
  Your little eyelids flutter 'cause you're dreamin'
  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, darlin', don't you ever grow up
  Don't you ever grow up
  Just stay this little
  Oh, darlin', 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 droppin' you off
  At fourteen, 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 gettin' older too
  And don't lose the way that you dance
  Around in your PJs getting ready for school
  
  Oh, darlin', don't you ever grow up
  Don't you ever grow up
  Just stay this little
  Oh, darlin', don't you ever grow up
  Don't you ever grow up
  It could stay this simple
  And 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 than I thought it would be
  So I tuck myself in and turn my nightlight 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
  Could still be little
  Oh, I don't wanna grow up
  Wish I'd never grown up
  It could still be simple
  Oh, darlin', don't you ever grow up
  Don't you ever grow up
  Just stay this little
  Oh, darlin', 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 even though you want to
  Please try to never grow up
  Oh, oh
  Don't you ever grow up
  Oh (never grow up)
  Just never grow up Writer/s: Taylor Swift
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 11

• Anonymous Swiftie from IdkSoooo Good.
• Anonymous IdiotLife feels like its over once you hit teenager age, and songs like this bring that sad but happy at the same time nostalgia to me, especially the line about 'Your little brother's favourite songs.' NOW try to say Taylor Swift is a terrible artist.
• AlissaWhy do I burst into tears every time I hear it? it's one of my favorites.
• Ava from San Francisco, CaliforniaThis song makes me cry every time but I still love it. It has such a nice meaning! :]
• AnonymousIt's true that all of us tend to think about growing up as kids, but when we are finally grown up and when it's time for us to start new, we unconsciously think of our old days, when we used to think about just nothing and enjoy the time as it is, with no restrictions and responsibilities. This song is a real masterpiece!
• Mary from Long Island, NyToday, when we got off the exit to my daughter's college (she's a freshman and will be living in a dorm on campus), she switched the music we were listening to and put this song on. I had never heard the song before and it took a few minutes to realize that she had planned and timed this perfectly. We both were quietly crying as we pulled onto the campus. We spent the next 6 hours together decorating and setting up her new home away from home. It was the best six hours of my summer. This song has very touching lyrics and today is a day I will remember forever. Love you Rosebud!
• Cam from Denver, ColoradoThey played this song at a preschool graduation I went to for a kid I babysit. It was the first time I had heard this song (this happened 4 years ago (ish)), and even now whenever I hear it, I think of that kid, along with the other kids I babysit, and it hits me just how fast they're growing up. The oldest 2 of the kids I've babysat especially seem to want to grow up faster than they already are, and I want to tell them to just be kids for a while longer. Their younger siblings (the other kids I babysit, for the most part) aren't trying to grow up too fast, but they're still growing up faster than I can believe. I remember not very long ago when one of them could only communicate with babbles and cries, and just a few days ago he spent half an hour telling me a (probably mostly exaggerated) story, and I understood nearly every word he said.
  
  Anyway, I forgot where I was going with this, and it turned into a rambling mess, but basically, kids grow up too fast, and this song makes me cry.
• Parvin Nina from Selangor, MalaysiaFor me this song is so unique it actually shares a story of a small kid in Taylor's eyes... she shares her special feeling with her audience. I wonder how she does that into a song we cannot even express in words YOU ARE MY BIGGEST FAN TAYLOR love ya.
• Tara from Hicksville, NyI love love this song. Cannot listen to it without crying or at least tearing up. I don't have children but i do have little neice's that i adore and love. whenever i hear this song i think of their sweet innocent faces and how the world hasn't damaged them or broken their hearts yet....and i hope it never will...but it's innevitable sometimes. They have to grow up, we all do, and it happens so fast! I'm always begging them to 'PLEASE STOP GROWING UP AND GETTING BIG' but it's the way it goes. I'm gonna miss them at this age
  when "everything's funny" and they "have nothing to regret"...i would give ANYTHING for them to stay like that : ) This song just really makes me apprecite them as sweet innocent little kids....
  
• Karen from Manchester, NhRight before "Speak Now" came out, my husband and I had talked to our daughters - ages 6 and 8 - about not growing up too fast and enjoying being children for a little while. The 8-year-old is a HUGE Taylor Swift fan, and we got her "Speak Now" for her birthday (it actually came out about a week before her birthday). The first time I heard this song I burst into tears, and I cry every time I hear it. My daughter remembered the conversation and was amazed that her beloved Taylor told her the same thing Mom & Dad did. She will lightly tease me, calling this my song, but she totally gets it. This song will always be so special to me. God bless you, Taylor.
• Nell from Chatham, NjThis song really makes you miss being a kid.
  
  Kids wanna grow up fast but then they realize its much harder then they think it is.

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