Apehead's brother
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wants to beat up Paul
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The boys have gone to watch
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Some of the girls
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are down at the mall
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Justine's got cherry cola
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and scotch
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Later on it's everyone
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around to Beck's
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Her parents are away
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in New York
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Sara well She just can't bear
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The stupidity
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The boredom
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The grind
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She stays at school
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so that she can hear
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The sound of the life of the mind
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And it's noisy up there
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It rocks me like a mother
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Rosa Parks and DNA
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Joan of Arc and JFK
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But it's noisy up there
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It rocks me like a mother
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She's cut 'em all out of her
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social circle
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Won't introduce them to
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Lincoln or Frost
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Doesn't want to let them
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get to know Keats
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or Studs Terkel
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They'll never know
|
what they have lost
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But Sara well
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She just can't bear
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The stupidity
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The boredom
|
The grind
|
She stays at school
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so that she can hear
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The sound of the life of the mind
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And it's noisy up there
|
It rocks me like a mother
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Copernicus and Fortune's Wheel
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Plato and the New Deal
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And it's noisy up there
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It rocks me like a mother
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Sara already knows pretty soon
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she'll be leaving
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Well she's hoovered up
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whatever she can find
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She doesn't want to hear about
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Pregnancies foam fights
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TV take-outs
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have sex weddings
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The sound of the life
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She'll leave behind
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Yeah it's noisy up there
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It rocks me like a mother
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And it's noisy up there
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It rocks me like a mother
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The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
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| Ben Folds Five |
