I'm gonna grow a moustache, I'm gonna grow a beard I'll get some John Lennon gla**es, and then I'm gonna act weird I'll get flare pants and sandals, and drive an old beat-up car I'm gonna own a used bookshop, and smoke a nasty cigar You can't I can No you can't Yes I can You won't I will No you won't Yes I will yes I will And you can't stop me Cause I'm gonna be cool (That's not cool) (Yep it is!) (That's weird... I'll tell you what cool is.) I'm gonna listen to Mozart, I'm gonna listen to Brahms I'm gonna rent a stretch limo and go to thirty-nine proms I'm gonna sit in my bathrobe and read Swamp Thing all day I'm gonna piss off my parents, and tell my girlfriend I'm gay You can't! Yes I can No you can't! Yes I can You won't I will You will not! Yes I will yes I will And you can't stop me Cause I'm gonna be cool It doesn't matter what you say It doesn't matter what they do We'll do what we want to do anyway We'll do what we want to Yeah we can both be cool Even though we're not the same
I will not be ashamed Of anything I want to be Anything we want to do Anyone we want to be That's cool (and so's this!) I'm gonna bench-press Rhode Island and have a thirty inch neck I'm gonna jump through a doughnut just like they did in Star Trek I'm gonna go skinny-dipping, but I won't worry about Jaws I'll have a neat healing factor and adamantium claws Well, you can't... Yeah, well, I really can Well, no, you can't No, I can! (No, I mean, it's not that it's not cool, it's just you can't have Adamantium claws...) No, I can I can I can I can I caan! And you can't stop me (OK...) Cause I'm gonna be cool (Well, you know, that is pretty cool, Rand, I'll tell ya But so's this!) I'm gonna burn my house down and marry Molly Yard I'm gonna find Michael Jackson and slap him really hard I'm gonna read all that Shakespeare that they a**igned me in school And then I'll win at Othello I'm gonna be cool (What?) I'm gonna be cool (Oh.) We're gonna be cool!