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On the playground you learned how to share with the kids
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But you still didn't feel you fit in
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How fitting, in confusion when you turned sixteen
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You knew how to paint by numbers
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But you knew it wasn't rock and roll
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You learned tight pants, spray-paint and eyeliner
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You said glam-rock would save your soul
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But you didn't grasp that the rebellion you wanted wasn't something you can ever be sold
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And I never understood how someone could be so willing to be absorbed
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Into what I never though could be passed for identity
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And I always felt bad for the kids who had to share their faces
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With sad teenagers across the world
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Found something to fill their loss, without ever adjusting the cause
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I heard a speech pattern imitated exactly by a girl in Seattle and a gang in Minneapolis
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So I guess he must of learned that from T.V.
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You said you'd find yourself for real but feel far out from the goal
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You had to paint by numbers but knew it wasn't ro-ro-ro-ro rock and roll!
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