Your little hands wrapped around my fingerAnd it's so quiet in the world tonightYour little eyelids flutter cause you're dreamingSo I tuck you in and turn on your favorite nightlightTo you, everything's funnyYou got nothing to regretI'd give all I have honeyIf you could stay like thatOh darling don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow upJust stay this littleOh darling don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow upIt could stay this simpleI won't let nobody hurt youWon't let no one break your heartNo one will desert youJust try to never grow upNever grow upYou're in the car on the way to the moviesAnd you're mortified your mom's dropping you offAt fourteen, there's just so much you can't doAnd you can't wait to move outSomeday and call your own shotsBut don't make her drop you off around the blockRemember that she's getting older tooAnd don't lose the way that you dance around in your p.j.s getting ready for schoolOh darling don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow upJust stay this littleOh darling don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow upIt could stay this simpleAnd no one's ever burned youNothing's ever left you scarredAnd even though you want toJust try to never grow upTake pictures in your mind of your childhood roomMemorize what it sounded like when your dad gets homeRemember the footsteps, remember the words saidAnd all your little brother's favorite songsI just realized everything I have is someday gonna be goneSo here I am in my new apartmentIn a big city, they just dropped me offIt's so much colder than I thought it would beSo I tuck myself in and turn my nightlight onWish I'd never grown upI wish I'd never grown upOh I don't wanna grow upWish I'd never grown upCould still be littleOh I don't wanna grow upWish I'd never grown upIt could still be simpleOh darling don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow upJust stay this littleOh darling don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow upIt could stay this simpleI won't let nobody hurt youWon't let no one break your heartAnd even though you want toPlease try to never grow upDon't you ever grow upJust never grow up

Jimin love this song, just like me

this song is pure gold. it‘s so artsy 🌙✨ i could listen to it all the damn time. we love ya tayy

Why am I just the 160th like? This song is pure gold.... This album is the best (to me) but people don't seem to be agree with that

Omg ♥️

I’m kind of a ‘new’ Swiftie since I first started being into Taylor’s music from 1989, so I haven’t properly listened to her earlier albums apart from RED. This is my first time properly listening through Speak Now, and despite knowing a few and liking many of the songs, I find this song so relatable. From when I was about nine years old, I used to get terrified of growing up, because I thought I’d have nobody, that I’d have to go off into the world and live alone, and I was not very good at coping with any tiny change, so the idea of being an adult was petrifying. Every single year, unlike most other kids (or so I thought) I would get upset before my birthday because, as I forever told my parents whilst crying, I liked the age I was and didn’t want to be a year older. Yes, it seemed like I was having a middle-aged crisis before I even hit my teens. Well, the older I got, the less upset I got, but every year was the same until about fifteen. I’ve always *enjoyed* my actual birthday (well, apart from one time, but that was because my poor dad planned a trip that I hated. How ungrateful of me LOL) on the day, it was just leading up to it that I felt sadness at having to put one more year in the past that I could never get back. So now I’m turning eighteen this year - actually an adult in legal terms - but at least now it does excite me in some ways. Of course I’m sad that I will be leaving my childhood behind, but what I’ve learned now is that you don’t know when you turn eighteen how to suddenly *be* an adult... you just have more opportunities, more control. You’re the same person, just a bit older. You can *choose* to do things, but that doesn’t mean you have to. However, by doing this there are so many things that you miss out on, too. Being an adult means you can actually *do* something about the dreams you’ve had all your life, which is scary but amazing too. And I also know now that you’re only as old as you choose to be. You’re never really the same age either - you still try to act more responsible that people who are even just slightly younger than you, and you still get crazy excited like a hyper three-year-old when you find your favourite song comes on the radio or someone says you’re going to get ice cream. But what I’m getting to is this song reminds me so much of how scared and nervous I used to feel about adulthood, and how the song conveys what I *thought* my future adult self would be telling me, but it’s not. Instead, I’d be saying that of course there are scary times, and you still get nervous about stupid things and excited about other stupid things, but you being an adult just means your inner child can have a choice. It’s just that inner child has become a better person just by living life for that little bit longer. Use and remember your childhood to be the best adult, and person of any age, possible. And also remind yourself of all the wonderful things that never would have happened if you never did grow up. Thank you for this song Taylor :)

taylor this is amazing!!!! :)