| Everybody says, «Follow the rules,» yeah
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| But what works for me might not work for you
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| Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong
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| It just goes to show
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| We’re just practicing, and no one really knows
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| No one
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| No one, yeah, yeah
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| No one, mmm
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| They always told me my ideas would never work
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| Go to college, get your degree so you could go to work
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| Yeah, 'cause you’re gonna need a backup plan
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| Just in case anything happens
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| That’s the only thing they understand
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| They don’t think that you could do it if they never seen it done
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| So tell my dreamers, keep dreamin'
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| And if you got the master plan, keep schemin'
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| Gon' have some doubters, that’s how it goes
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| But to be honest, nobody really knows
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| Everybody says, «Follow the rules,» yeah
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| But what works for me might not work for you
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| Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong
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| It just goes to show
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| We’re just practicing, and no one really knows
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| My mama prolly thought I was gonna hit the league
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| But I didn’t
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| She told me, «Tobe, you should go get a real J-O-B»
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| But I didn’t
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| Hell, sometimes disobedience is the ingredient needed
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| To clear your path of the feces and demons that mislead ya
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| To the pile of bodies, you’re lyin' with them folk from Egypt
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| Before they got the receipt, that pharaoh denied them freedom
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| I know them shackles that’s on ya get comfortable in this system
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| 'Specially when they hit the kill switch on a caterpillar’s vision
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| To be a butterfly and hover by
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| Can’t spend that, have been suckered by
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| Thoughts that bread only come when you make butter fly, ooh
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| I hope you get it, I do
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| I might just write the ones in the slums with the drums a haiku
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| To let them know that there’s plenty of tycoons that come from typhoons
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| And ain’t no rules, this a game of fools and we all just like you
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| 'Cause…
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| Everybody says, «Follow the rules,» yeah (Yeah)
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| But what works for me might not work for you
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| (It don’t work for everybody)
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| Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong (Yeah)
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| It just goes to show
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| We’re just practicing, and no one really knows |