Heard you moved out of town on the weekend Understand, but I'm sad that you're leaving Are you up making friends with the ceiling? Yeah, I know the feeling I wasn't trying to let you down I was just working my shit out I'm sorry I didn't know how much I led you on Growin' up is weird, sleep with friends, break a heart Question everything you thought Split a pill, smoke a dart Growin' up is weird, fall in love for a year And then I disappear, wish that you were here Growin' up is strange, get too close, push away Thinking you would do the same New regrets, new mistakes Growin' up is strange when the one who's to blame Is lookin' at the mirror, wish that you were here Growing up is Get emotional at two in the morning It's a habit, know I shouldn't be callin' Then you let me in, is that what you wanted? Is this what we wanted? Now you're back in town, no, I can't come around Are we better without the what if's and doubts Is this it? Are we both too far gone to forget And try again? Growin' up is weird, sleep with friends, break a heart Question everything you thought Split a pill, smoke a dart Growin' up is weird, fall in love for a year And then I disappear, wish that you were here Growing up is strange, get too close, push away Thinking you would do the same New regrets, new mistakes Growin' up is strange when the one who's to blame Is lookin' at the mirror, wish that you were here Growin' up is Wish that you were here (oh) Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (wish that you were, wish that you were here) Growin' up is weird, sleep with friends, break a heart Question everything you thought Split a pill, smoke a dart Growin' up is weird, fall in love for a year And then I disappear, wish that you were here Growin' up is strange, get too close, push away Thinking you would do the same New regrets, new mistakes Growin' up is strange when the one who's to blame Is lookin' at the mirror, wish that you were here Growin' up is weird Oh-oh, bet I'll just disappear Oh, will I just disappear? Wish that you were here Growing up is

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Ruel stops holding back: “Now, who gives a shit?”

After years of being labelled a pop prodigy, Ruel is rewriting his own narrative. The London-born, Sydney-raised singer first broke through as a teenager, but with 'Kicking My Feet' and the upcoming 'Kicking & Screaming', he's embracing big feelings and unapologetic joy. Growing up might just be his best era yet.

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