There's some growing up I'll have to do. I wonder if I will ever be a "grown up".
You can drive the grown up cars, wear the grown up clothes, and partake in grown up
conversations, but does that seal the deal? Does it make it so?
I don't know how you become one. Maybe situations you rise above or people you decide to align yourself with. It's like you're trying to balance who you are and how you want to be perceived. And in all of the confusion you lose yourself.

This is where I quote The Kinks:
First time I saw her she was easy to know,
She had nothing to hide, she put it all out to show.
She didn't cover up or try to conceal,
I knew the way that she felt 'cause her expression was real.
She didn't cover up the inside,
She showed it all on the outside,
Stark naked in the artificial light.

Everybody gotta learn to relax,
To be yourself you have to put on an act.
Get together in the artificial light.
And if I saw her in the light of day,
I wouldn't know what to say, I wouldn't know what had happened.

I only wanna know a world below,
Where we can be ourselves beneath an artificial glow.
And if you're scared what your friend'll say,
And you're embarrassed by the light of day,
Get together in the artificial light.

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