Originally by: J. Dekter
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I'm bored out of my mind / Too sick to even care
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I'll take a little walk / Nobody's going----to----know
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I'm in senior year / It gives you a little free time
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I'll just use it all at once!
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Took the fence and the lane / The bus then the train
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Bought an Independent to make me look like I------got---brains
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I made a story up in my head if anybody would ask
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I'm going to a seminar!
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I'm a genius / I'm a prodigy
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A demon at Maths and Science
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I'm up---for---a---prize
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If you gotta grow up sometime
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You've to do it on your own
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I don't think I could stand to be stuck
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That's the way that things were going
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The bible's my tool / There's no mention of school!
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My Damascan Road's my transistor rad--io
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I tune in at night when my mum and my dad start to fight
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I put on my headphones
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And I tune out / I am devout
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The girls are singing about my life
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But they're not here, they've got the wild life
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If you want to find out, find out
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You got to look them in the eye
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That's why my only choice
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Is find the face behind the voice...
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She asked the man if the service was open
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"Not today, just the choir from the radio"
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"Couldn't I sit in? I've come all this way"
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"Will you bugger off, I've got work to do!"
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The city was losing its appeal
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God was asleep / He was back in her village, in the fields
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Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
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I wish that I could sing / I'd stay in a melody (I would float along in my everlasting song)
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What would I do to believe??
