{"id":2441,"date":"2026-06-03T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:34:20","slug":"how-a-tom-waits-cover-became-a-defining-punk-anthem-for-the-ramones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/how-a-tom-waits-cover-became-a-defining-punk-anthem-for-the-ramones\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Tom Waits Cover Became a Defining Punk Anthem for the Ramones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Both Tom Waits and the Ramones are known for possessing an independent spirit. Waits, a restless writer and artist, crafted an avant-garde discography that covers a vast array of musical styles. But the Ramones, on the other hand, remained defiantly unchanged in their sound and style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet these two opposites certainly attracted one another when the punk legends covered Waits\u2019s defiant \u201cI Don\u2019t Want To Grow Up\u201d. Let\u2019s see how it became one of their defining punk anthems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ramones - I Don&#039;t Want To Grow Up\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Tpu_XoNABA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Two Perspectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On the original, Waits sings in a broken voice, and his perspective feels aged, cranky, stubborn, like a weary traveler making a pit stop in a dark and smoky lounge. But in Joey Ramone\u2019s voice, the vibe is rebellious, young, snotty. Exactly what one wants from punk rock. Taking these two versions together, you can imagine a late-night conversation between the punk and the old timer who\u2019s seen too much and probably enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet each perspective reveals the same problem from different angles. The lyrics describe the unhappy realities of adulthood. It\u2019s lost ideals, discarded dreams, and hypocrisies. \u201cMakes me wish that I could be a dog,\u201d they sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waits\u2019s version, which was written with Kathleen Brennan, appears on his 1992 album <em>Bone Machine<\/em>. His bluesy and ragged howl echoes the fading clamors of youth. But innocence remains in Ramone\u2019s slacker reading as he glimpses the adults ruining one another and themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Seems that folks turn into things,<br>That they never want.<br>The only thing to live for is today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I\u2019m gonna put a hole in my TV set,<br>I don\u2019t wanna grow up.<br>Open up the medicine chest,<br>I don\u2019t wanna grow up.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Adios<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI Don\u2019t Want To Grow Up\u201d is the first track on Ramones\u2019 final album, <em>Adios Amigos<\/em>. Two decades had passed between the band\u2019s groundbreaking debut and their farewell LP. In both style and attitude, like the message in Waits\u2019s song, the punk pioneers remained unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It brings to mind another Ramones\u2019 anthem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/ramones\/i-wanna-be-sedated\">\u201cI Wanna Be Sedated\u201d<\/a>. The singer wants relief from boredom, from the banalities of tour life. Perhaps not all that different from the miseries of adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we are, amigos. The same as it ever was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Tom Waits and the Ramones are known for possessing an independent spirit. Waits, a restless writer and artist, crafted an avant-garde discography that covers a vast array of musical styles. But the Ramones, on the other hand, remained defiantly unchanged in their sound and style. 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