Go to work, go to scool
Get an education, so you won't be a fool
Get a doctorate, PhD
All that shit is not for me

All my life people tell me what to say
This is my life, live it my own way

Was so blind I couldn't see
Figures of authority
Always standing behind me
Ready to come down on me

All my life people tell me what to say
This is my life, live it my own way

All my life people tell me what to say
This is my life, live it my own way
All my life people tell me what to say
This is my life, live it my own way


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    UP THE FUCKING PUNX....thats what this is about..

    bluntpunkon October 06, 2009   Link
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    actually i guess this is a cover ...but im not really into sick of it all..

    bluntpunkon October 06, 2009   Link

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