Said he's got to go to feel like a tourist in his old home This place don't look like it did when I was a kid, oh Trading obligatory, sickly sweet pleasantries "What's it like overseas?" said a girl to a past soulmate Oh, the growing pains They're keeping me up again They're keeping me up again ♪ The kids from our block, they're all now getting jobs New Year came all too fast, and what have I done? But tell me, does it ever stop feeling like catching up? Said we'd have a house with a slide and a dog, and then we moved away Oh, the growing pains They're keeping me up again They're keeping me up again ♪ Oh, the growing pains They're keeping me up again But I've gotta go to play on to strangers in a new show The city's calling Promise I'm not running, I'll see you when I do Oh, the growing pains They're keeping me up again They're keeping me up again ♪ Oh, the growing pains Oh, the growing pains They're keeping me up again