Hangin' up the old wailing paddle
Pull the splinters out of your skin
Ice your knuckles, vow revenge, corporal gruel, teaching cruel
Hard times, you missed a grand crime
Ingrained acceptance, invisible scars
Take a whippin' like a man and you'll be a winner, yeah
Don't you wanna shine like the stars?
Good boys do, good girls don't
Double standards feeding off the rusty remains of the past
The things we learn from consequence
We're all just figures messed up in coincidence
You live your life by foolishness
The things we least require take priority
Who listens to the mudrakers anymore?
Spit the fire like before, just like Mark Twain
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Driving past the billboards with the legs that sell
Get yourself a new car and a bottle and the babes will follow you
It's all just fun you see, no one gets hurt
Why should we question what is commonplace?
The things we learn from consequence
We're all just figures messed up in coincidence
You live your life by foolishness
The things we least require take priority
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away, play the roles away
Play the roles away in the cla**room
In the back row, same old lecture
Play the roles away in the locker room
There's an a**hole yellin' at your mom
Play the roles away on the bar stool
Tryin' not to be, but it's hard to change
Play the roles away, but in the end
Wondering who ever stared all the roles that we play?
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