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A musical by Adam Gwon
Ordinary Days the Musical - Don't Wanna Be Here Lyrics
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I grew up in like, the middle of nowhere
And I swore I would never go back.
My hometown was like the suburb of a suburb
I actually lived on a cul-de-sac.
That’s literally a road that goes nowhere.
That’s the definition of dead end.
I said, “I can’t wait to learn to do a three-point-turn”
Because I don’t wanna be here.
In four long years, I finished up with high school.
Graduated top of my class. Thank you!
But in college I discovered that devising my own major
Was a bureaucratic pain in the ass.
I thought I’d recontextualize Sartre
But could only register for first-year French. Ha!
Well, you should’ve heard my mom when I dropped the bomb
And said, “I don’t wanna be here
No, I don’t wanna be here.”
Now, I am not a negative person
It’s just that I’ve always known that I had places to go
Dreams to fulfill and ideas to discover
They’re just never where I am.
So anyway, back at school
I waited five semesters
Till I could snag one of their random degrees
I moved down south, ‘cause I heard everyone was hiring
And they were. At the Applebee’s.
They fired me, like, three weeks later.
My sublet promptly, whoops, fell through.
As I checked into a hotel, I said, “It’s just as well.
Because I don’t wanna be here.
No, I don’t wanna be here.”
And I, I was not a negative person
So I packed up my bags, though I had no place to go
I opened a map and said, “Show me my future.
‘Cause it isn’t where I am.”
I finally got a job at some hum-drum office
Like everyone right out of school does
I sat there at my cubicle every day
Sending faxes, and that’s what my life was
Oh, I went back home and said to my parents,
“I know what I’ve got to do.”
And since I am a dork
I moved to New York
And I started grad school.
I really don’t wanna be here.
[Thanks to Charley for lyrics]
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Ordinary Days the Musical - Don't Wanna Be Here Lyrics
I grew up in like, the middle of nowhere
And I swore I would never go back.
My hometown was like the suburb of a suburb
I actually lived on a cul-de-sac.
That’s literally a road that goes nowhere.
That’s the definition of dead end.
I said, “I can’t wait to learn to do a three-point-turn”
Because I don’t wanna be here.
In four long years, I finished up with high school.
Graduated top of my class. Thank you!
But in college I discovered that deciding on a major
Was a bureaucratic pain in the ass.
I thought I would study the classics
But could only register for first-year French. Ha!
Well, you should’ve heard my mom when I dropped the bomb
And said, “I don’t wanna be here
No, I don’t wanna be here.”
Now, I am not a negative person
It’s just that I’ve always known that I had places to go
Dreams to fulfil and ideas to discover
They’re just never where I am.
So anyway, back at school
I lasted five semesters
And somehow got one of their random degrees
I moved down south, I know, to shack up with my boyfriend
And got a job! At the Applebee’s.
They fired me, like, three weeks later.
My boyfriend quickly followed suit
As I checked into a hotel, I said, “It’s just as well.
Because I don’t wanna be here.
No, I don’t wanna be here.”
And I, I was not a negative person
So I packed up my bags, though I had no place to go
I opened a map and said, “Show me my future.
‘Cause it isn’t where I am.”
I spent the next few months on a greyhound bus
Thinking I'd go and find where my life was
But everywhere I went was the same old story
From Nashville to both the Dakotas
Oh, I went back home and said to my parents,
“I know what I’ve got to do.”
And since I am a dork
I moved to New York
And I started grad school.
I really don’t wanna be here.
[Thanks to Kiera for lyrics]
Read more: Ordinary Days: the Musical Lyrics
Ordinary Days the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
One By One by One
Don't Wanna Be Here
The Space Between
Let Things Go
Dear Professor Thompson (Part 1)
Life Story
Dear Professor Thompson (Part 2)
I'm Trying
Saturday at the Met
Favorite Places
Sort-Of Fairy Tale
Fine
Big Picture
Hundred-Story City
Party Interlude
Calm
Life Story (reprise)
Gotta Get Out
Rooftop Duet / Falling
I'll Be Here
Beautiful
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