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 Photograph, remembering the summer

 It takes me back,

 To Southern California.

Where the girls would all pass

 On the boardwalk and laugh

 At our desperate attempts and our sunburned backs

 We never had a chance, I remember that

 And no matter what we do,

 We'll never lose what we had.

Growing up

 Won't bring us down.

 Yeah, growing up,

 It won't bring us down,

Growing up won't bring us down

 Growing up won't bring us down

Graduate, what's a kid to do now?

 Get away, yeah-ah.

 We've got so much to prove.

 Cause it's time to move on

 And I'm stuck to let go,

 But then Wonderwall comes on the radio,

 I flashback to the night in your parent's yard,

 When we drank too much and we talked about god...

Growing up, won't bring us down.

Growing up, it won't bring us down.

 We're in this together,

 Yeah, we'll make it somehow,

Nothing's gonna stop us now...

 Growing up won't bring us down

 Growing up won't bring us down

 Growing up won't bring us down

Oh-oh-oh

Photograph, oh give me something to remember

Growing up, won't bring us down.

Growing up, it won't bring us down.

 We're in this together,

 Yeah, we'll make it somehow,

Nothing's gonna stop us now...

 Growing up won't bring us down

 Growing up won't bring us down (won't bring us down)

 Growing up won't bring us down (won't bring us down)

 Growing up won't bring us....... down.