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Yo, you remember the good old days man?
Back at school
The best days of our lives man
No work, no stress, no pressure
Not a care in the world
You remember them days man?
Yeah, me neither

People always criticise schools it seems
Saying they don't equip kids with the tools they need
But personally I think that's ridiculous
Cause I learned loads
It's just that none of it was on the curriculum

On my very first day I got a lesson in textiles
If you wore the wrong ones then you were exiled
In my school if you didn't have a pair of kickers
You might as well have turned up
In a tattered pair of slippers

But it wasn't just what you wore it's how you wore it
Rucksacks with one strap were mandatory
And having a piercing in your left ear was okay
But not the right
Cause that clearly meant you were gay

All I wanted was acceptance and to make some friends
When the bowl haircut was the latest trend
My mum wouldn't let me have it
And she'd say to me "Son,
You're gonna thank me one day and that day has come"

Sometimes I take a trip down memory lane
Before we all had jobs and bills to pay
I sit back and reminisce about the good old days
But most the time I thank god it's changed
Sometimes I take a trip down memory lane
Before we all had jobs and bills to pay
I sit back and reminisce about the good old days
But most the time I thank god it's changed

I learned more about Social Studies in recess
Than from some fuddy duddy in a tie and tweed vest
I learned that the door to popularity had two keys
One was brute force the other was beauty

I learnt that the way to gain approval from the group came
From being mean to people lower than you in the food chain
And much to my own shame and disappointment
I made the simple choice that if you can't beat em, join em

Back when Iron Mike was biting Holyfields ear off
We were arguing over who the hardest kid in the year was
But it was plain to all from the bus ride home
Whoever sat in the back seat occupied the throne

But occasionally a challenger would step in the ring
With the intention of usurping the king
The only thing that we didn't seemed to learn was 200 kids chanting
Always led to fights getting broken up before they started

Sometimes I take a trip down memory lane
Before we all had jobs and bills to pay
I sit back and reminisce about the good old days
But most the time I thank god it's changed
Sometimes I take a trip down memory lane
Before we all had jobs and bills to pay
I sit back and reminisce about the good old days
But most the time I thank god it's changed

I didnt learn about sex in a biology lab
Most of my knowledge came from a pornography mag
Back when random boners were a constant fear
Would you like to come to the front?
No, really I'm cool here

And as if puberty wasnt hard enough to manage
I got my first taste of heart ache and anguish
My first relationship lasted 2 days
And is still one of my top 5 most painful breakups to date

All the hotter girls dated older guys
Who could already drive and I swear were like 25
I couldn't wait to be as old as these people
But now I look back like was that shit even legal?

But all in all it wasn't so bad
Apart from the slang and vocab
The hair and the clothes fads, the pressure to smoke fags
The fights and the romance
In fact screw that place I never want to go back!

Sometimes I take a trip down memory lane
Before we all had jobs and bills to pay
I sit back and reminisce about the good old days
But most the time I thank god it's changed
Sometimes I take a trip down memory lane
Before we all had jobs and bills to pay
I sit back and reminisce about the good old days
But most the time I thank god it's changed



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