My New School
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They say school days are the happiest of
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your life
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But I've never seen or been in so much
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strife
The teacher's like a bear with three sore
heads
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And if he had a gun we'd all be dead
it's...
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My new school
I got no friends at all in
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My new school
Everyone's so tall in
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My new school
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I really hate it here in my new school
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I can't see why anyone should like it here
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Even a dinosaur would live in fear
It's got all the charm of a video nasty
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I've never been anywhere so ghastly
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My new school
They burn you at the stake in
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My new school
I've had all I can take from
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My new school
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I really hate it here in my new school
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My new school
Can't spend another day in
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My new school
I got to get away from
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My new school
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`Cause I really hate it here in my new
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school
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