He doesn't have a problem with drugs
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He just doesn't get them
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He's fine that his mates have tattoos
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But he thinks they'll regret them
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He likes going to pubs
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But he hates when the music's too loud
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He tends not to go to rock concerts
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Cos he can't stand the crowd
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But all he's ever wanted to be
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Is a rock star on Rage or MTV
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But he knows that it's not fucking likely
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He's just turned thirty
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He knows that he will always be
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A rock 'n' roll nerd
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He'll keep writing songs the world will never hear
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And though they won't be heard
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He'll just keep writing
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Oh yeah
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But you see the problem is
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He always dreamt of being a star
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But he learned piano instead of guitar
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Which in the nineties didn't get you very far
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So while all the other kids were learning Stairway
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He was the piano to their forte
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But he was convinced one day
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He'd rock their fucking asses
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Be an icon for the disenfranchised masses
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And grow his hair long
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And rebel against the state
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But just for now that'd have to wait
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Cos he's running late for his morning classes
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And he will always be
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A rock 'n' roll nerd
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He'll keep playing gigs that no one knows about
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And though it sounds absurd
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He'll just keep playing
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Oh yeah
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But you see the problem is
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There's not much depth in what he's singing
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He's a victim of his upper middle class upbringing
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So he can't write about the hood
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Or bling bling
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