[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Young Siddhartha went down the promenade
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Wearing a graphic tee of a Basquiat
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Matcha in hand with a newly lit
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Newport cigarette like the summer in Rhode Island, can't forget
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The girl the mischief the drugs and the rest that
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follow suit when you’re with the likes of a baroness
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You learned high class from the new english best
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But never felt like you belong
[Chorus 1]
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Cause back back way back you read a book by Kerouac
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said "It's who i am"
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And there's no changing that
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The financе degree’s only for a show
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So you can have peacе on your college radio
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[Verse 2]
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State school only let you get
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so far as a house show in College Park
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Kicking it with kids from Bristol and Baltimore
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Never understood the Silver Spring fold
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When all you've touched has been made of gold
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The Midas way of Arundel old money
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And culture and class and Calvert Hall
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Disillusionment's a gift
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but you still want it all
[Chorus 2]
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Cause back back way back you read a book by Kerouac
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said "It's who i am"
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And there's no changing that
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The finance department knows what it's for
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So you can drive home in your shiny navy Volvo
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[Chorus 3]
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He said “what am i if i can't buy my clothes
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And my politics aren't a shade of gold
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Oh these consequences are set in stone
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Marie Kondo’ll never know
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Why you can buy actualization
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And turn it into cheap religion"
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He said “what am i if i can't buy my clothes
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And my politics aren't a shade of gold
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Oh these consequences are set in stone
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Marie Kondo’ll never know
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Why I live my life in clarendon 36pt bold"
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