Para todos ellos, aquí van dos pequeñas obras maestras:
"Nunca percebi quando se deixa de ser pequeno para se passar a ser crescido. Provavelmente quando a parente loira passa a ser referida, em português, como «a desavergonhada da Luísa». Provavelmente quando substituímos os guarda-chuvas de chocolate por bifes de tártaros. Provavelmente quando começamos a gostar de tomar duche. Provavelmente quando cessamos de ter medo do escuro. Provavelmente quando nos tornamos tristes. Mas não tenho a certeza: não sei se sou crescido".
António Lobo Antunes
"I DON'T WANNA GROW UP"
When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothing ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog that's
always changing things
Makes wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever want to be that way
I don't wanna grow up
Seems that folks turn into things
that they never want
The only thing to live for is today...
I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinkin all night
I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old tomb on grand street
When I see the 5 oclock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float on a broom
Fall in love, get married then boom
How the hell did it get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up.
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