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Stop complaining |
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Stop complaining |
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Now many songs do you figure that I've written |
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Since I originally started making records in this business |
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Back beginning in college, and it's been a menace since then |
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But the principal challenge, it ain't really that different |
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It's about me not repeating myself at all |
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Or at least repeating myself the least amount, I suppose |
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The reason being is that we need some songs |
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That lead us off the beaten path between my rhymes |
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But listen though, it's difficult now a-days |
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To really go against the grain, get you some accolades |
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Especially with these frigid, finicky, fickle-ass motherfuckers |
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Think they finally figured you out, the fake-ass fuckers |
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Stop complaining (I know, it's just that certain shit pisses me off) |
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Stop complaining (What am I gonna do? I mean) |
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Man, fuck that shit, I pay my taxes when I'm asked to |
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I'm not enthusiastic about it, but shit I make it happen |
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Yeah, it's last minute, but goddammit they cash it |
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"This is fiscal harassment! They keep touching my assets!" |
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Now I imagine I might be feeling different about it |
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If it was given outright, witnessing it helping somebody |
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But it just so happens in life, the school district's too crowded |
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There ain't no teachers in sight, that's why the kids are so rowdy |
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I just imagine some asshole with glasses on up at the capital |
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One of a thousand pawns packed in an office, cramped up like animals |
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Pictures of his sister, his mixture Lhasa Apso poodle |
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His 2.6 kids and the missus thumb-tacked to his cubicle |
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So damned detached from the average man's planet he can't fathom |
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That he can ever be anything other than stats, fat and taxable |
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He's getting his usual, ritual 2 o'clock cup of noodles on |
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Fucking you with your W-2, with his John Denver music on |
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"Hey..um.oooh, I love this one. Hey Lil? Can you get me the file on.?" |
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"Blah blah blah blah blah?" |
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"Yeah..he's making too much money" |
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Stop complaining (I know, Ladies.it's just) |
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Stop complaining (I'm trying, I'm really trying) |
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Stop complaining (Yeah I know, lets give it. ) |
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Stop complaining (I wonder what do they say about me?) |
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Is he a role model we can all follow full throttle |
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So we don't bother having to create our own model |
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That we go by? A fall guy I can hold accountable? |
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Cuz I don't want to hold the bottle for my own child |
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Is it really my place to raise little Billy |
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when Hilly and William should be building with him in the living room |
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Instead of bailing on him, and alienating him, and basically failing him |
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Sending him sailing on a mission to oblivion? |
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Then, inevitably on his day in court and Billy ain't to blame |
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The bailiff asks him to raise his arm and say his name in court |
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Of course his parents ain't in court, they play it off |
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Saying it ain't his fault |
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Blame it on Asian Born, or his favorite artist |
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Beg your pardon? |
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Now, I do admit that in the music business |
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people do and say some really stupid shit |
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Kids are zooming in and using what we do and say |
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I can see how you can say "do not abuse your influence" |
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But to all the Hillaries and the Williams of the new millennium |
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If you really aren't feeling like living with the children will be a fulfilling experience |
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Or something you envision yourself willingly |
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and unconditionally committed to from the beginning |
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Maybe you shouldn't be bumping bellies from the giddyup anyway, dummy |
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Stop complaining (Well, for now) |
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Stop complaining (Man, YOU stop complaining) |
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Stop complaining |
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Stop complaining (Whatever) |
