| Now, when you come to apply for a job
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| Don’t tell 'em you’re homeless
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| 'Cause I promise they won’t hire you
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| And if they like your songs
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| Just nod your head and play along
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| Never tell 'em what inspires you
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| I bet my fans know me better than my friends do
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| Because my friends don’t pay that much attention
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| The fans memorize every single sentence
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| Which makes them far too smart to ever start a friendship
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| I need to start writing pieces about other people’s problems
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| 'Cause strangers are starting to get worried
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| I’m in a hurry to try to slow the system down a bit
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| And find happiness before I hit thirty
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| OK, OK, I’ve said too much
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| I wear my heart on my sleeve
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| When all I need to do is write a hit
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| Somebody should’ve showed me how to shut up and breathe
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| 'Cause there’s a time and place to bite your lip
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| It goes peace to phobia
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| For the boots made for walking
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| Now if only Best Buy could break me off with a Walkman
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| Everything would be fine
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| I could spend time smiling
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| Instead of pulling a sad clown around this island
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| I’ve got no suggestions
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| Well, maybe one
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| Leave my type alone when you decide to touch that microphone
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| See, me and you
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| We’re on different pages
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| We’re in different stages
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| We’ve got different flavors
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| I’mma let you do your thing
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| Just as long as your thing
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| Ain’t got a single thing to do with me and what I’m trying to bring
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| But if my name crosses your lips
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| You better guard your tongue
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| Pardon me, give me my respect, and keep it all in fun
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| If I had extra time I’d walk around and shake everybody’s hand
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| (Like, how you doin' my man?)
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| But I’m not allowed
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| I’m trying to beat the clock now
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| So I’m out, right after I rock this crowd
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| It goes: ola ola ola (yeah)
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| Ola ola ola
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| It goes: one two three four five
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| Six seven eight nine ten
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| And all I ever wanted out of live was rhymin'
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| Either from me or an innocent bystander
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| I wasn’t that picky, just give it to me quickly
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| Whatever it takes, to cook these cakes
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| You wanna hear your voice but don’t know nothing 'bout the breaks
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| And it’s obvious you haven’t found your place
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| Got me askin', 'Who is he?"
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| «How did he end up in my city?»
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| I’m the crocodile that the trucker tried to wrestle
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| I’m the main ingredient from yesterday’s special
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| Close the hole and push that level
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| I’ll chop the head off the devil and I’ll throw it at you
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| And I’ll be damned if I ever climb another tree
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| From here on, the squirrels and birds can come to me
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| From sun to sun and from sea to sea
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| (Girl, they call me Slug, do you wanna make love?)
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| Now all the leaders in the place, throw your hands in the air
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| All the feeders in the house, throw your hands in the air
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| All the thinkers here tonight, put your hands in the air
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| Anybody we forgot, you can stand there and stare
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| Yeah, you remember, tracksmart (?), off to a bad start
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| The weight I used to carry got buried in the backyard
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| Caught between a scotch and a cinnamon Pop-Tart
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| The bell doesn’t work, foo, you better knock hard
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| Line by line, I’m doing fine
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| I design on my mind for my time
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| Hail when my kind does leave behind
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| They’ll find that I was the one that died trying
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| I would never trade the way I am for the way I’m not
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| My crew is kinda popular, we get to play a lot
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| And my son thinks that I am the coolest thing in the world
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| 'Cause he’s still too young to fall in love with girls
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| It goes: ola ola ola
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| Yeah, you’re listening to the cool sounds of Atmosphere
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| Ola ola ola
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| From Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| Ola ola ola
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| Givin' a shout-out to the whole world
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| Ola ola ola
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| And we’d like to tell all of y’all, it goes:
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| Ola ola ola
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| To y’all
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| Ola ola ola
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| To us
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| Ola ola Ola
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| Now band, shut up, let the bassman do his thing, shush
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| It’s like that and
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| It’s like that and
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| It’s like this and
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| It’s like this and
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| It goes: ola ola Ola
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| Ola ola ola
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| It goes… |