Make my way through the motions I try to ignore it But home's looking farther the closer I get Don't know why I can't see the end Is it over yet? A short leash and a short fuse don't match They tell me it ain't that bad Now don't you overreact So I just hold my breath Don't know why I can't see the sun When young should be fun And I guess the bad can get better Gotta be wrong before it's right Every happy phrase engraved in my mind And I've always been a go-getter There's truth in every word I write But still the growing pains, growing pains They're keeping me up at night And I can't hide These growing pains are keeping me up at night And I can't hide These growing pains are keeping me up at night Try to mend what's left of my contented comprehension As I take on the stress of the mess that I've made Don't know if I even care for grown If you're just alone And I guess the bad can get better Gotta be wrong before it's right Every happy phrase engraved in my mind And I've always been a go-getter There's truth in every word I write But still the growing pains, growing pains They're keeping me up at night Yeah, yeah, yeah And I can't hide These growing pains are keeping me up at night Yeah, yeah, yeah And I can't hide These growing pains are keeping me up at night Starting to look like misnomer Can't take your own advice, can't find Pieces of my peace of mind, I cry More than I want to admit, but I can't lie To myself, to anyone Cause phoning it in isn't any fun, can't run Back to my youth, the way I want to The days my brother was quicker to fool A.M. radio, not much to do Use monsters as an excuse to lie awake Now the monsters are the ones that I have to face No band-aids for the growing pains Oh, yeah, yeah And I can't hide These growing pains are keeping me up at night Yeah, yeah, yeah And I can't hide These growing pains are keeping me up at night Yeah, yeah, yeah And I can't hide These growing pains are keeping me up at night