Grit your teeth at the chains that bind
Working and striving, only to find
That this world will rob you blind
And if you don’t give a hundred percent
There’s nothing to borrow or lend
And you’ll have no chance to defend
We were trained to slide on by
In government schools (I cry)
We were told we’d never die
They said it’s our birthright
To be unique, wrong or right
No one said we’d have to fight
They said they would feed us all
Unquestioning quality’s fall
Then they lined us up in the hall
But when the gifts all have spoiled
And the grandeur has been foiled
And all the oceans are oiled
Nothing is left but the rocky soul
Granite inside this shadowed hole
No strength to play the role
They said it’s our birthright
To be unique, wrong or right
No one said we’d have to fight
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