"Stop Being Silly"

This is what I imagine people frequently want to tell me.

Current listening: The Partridge Family, Shopping Bag

Stop Being Silly

© 1996 Brian Hutzell

I respect your attitude

You don’t want to grow old before your time

But sometimes I feel I’m living with Peter Pan

And sometimes I can’t take it

No, I just can’t take it

I just can’t take it anymore

Stop being silly

Quit acting weird

Enough of this nonsense

I've had it up to here

No more being foolish

Make sense for a change

Grow up

And act your age

I can take the games and toys

And I don’t really mind your noisy friends

But I can't appreciate the songs you sing

That isn’t music

Doesn’t sound like music

It doesn’t sound like music to my ears

Stop being silly

Quit acting weird

Enough of this nonsense

I've had it up to here

No more being foolish

Make sense for a change

Grow up

And act your age

Some of the things I say amaze me

I sound exactly like my dad

I wonder if I’m going crazy

I thought I was more open than I am

One of these days it’s gonna happen

I’m gonna wake-up old and gray

And someone younger and wiser

Will turn to me and say:

Stop being silly

Quit acting weird

Enough of this nonsense

I've had it up to here

No more being foolish

Make sense for a change

Grow up

And act your age

“Dessilapto”

Brian Hutzell

from Make a Thwinting Sound