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[Verse 1]
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Read common knowledge stockpile your brain
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You get burned in the sun, you get wet in the rain
They teach you to fix what needs to be broke
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I say he who laughs first didn't get the joke - Go on and tap your mind
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Quit knocking on mine
[Verse 2]
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An English teacher from Vancouver
She asked me to write something for her students.
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I wrote knowledge adds wisdom let slide -
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She says now really - I wanna tell you
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Quit knocking on mine
[Bridge]
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Knowledge is power got your books, go read 'em
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Wisdom is ignorance; stupidity I call freedom
[Verse 3]
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Comic books, the Bible, roadmaps, pornography - Anything you wanna read
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Go out and sit in a field sometime
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Quit knockin' on mine (knockin' on mine)
[Bridge]
F#m
...power got your books, go read 'em
D
Wisdom is ignorance; stupidity (ha!) I call freedom
[Verse 4]
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You read common knowledge every day.
You're as common as that newspaper you throw away
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You get burned in the sun you get wet in the rain
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Won't you ever change
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Won't you ever learn
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Quit knockin' on mine (knockin' on mine)
