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Everybody says, "Follow the rules," yeah But what works for me might not work for you Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong It just goes to show We're just practicing, and no one really knows No one No one, yeah, yeah No one, mmm They always told me my ideas would never work Go to college, get your degree so you could go to work Yeah, 'cause you're gonna need a backup plan Just in case anything happens That's the only thing they understand They don't think that you could do it if they never seen it done So tell my dreamers, keep dreamin' And if you got the master plan, keep schemin' Gon' have some doubters, that's how it goes But to be honest, nobody really knows Everybody says, "Follow the rules," yeah But what works for me might not work for you Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong It just goes to show We're just practicing, and no one really knows SongtexteMy mama prolly thought I was gonna hit the league But I didn't She told me, "Tobe, you should go get a real J-O-B" But I didn't Hell, sometimes disobedience is the ingredient needed To clear your path of the feces and demons that mislead ya To the pile of bodies, you're lyin' with them folk from Egypt Before they got the receipt, that pharaoh denied them freedom I know them shackles that's on ya get comfortable in this system 'Specially when they hit the kill switch on a caterpillar's vision To be a butterfly and hover by Can't spend that, have been suckered by Thoughts that bread only come when you make butter fly, ooh I hope you get it, I do I might just write the ones in the slums with the drums a haiku To let them know that there's plenty of tycoons that come from typhoons And ain't no rules, this a game of fools and we all just like you 'Cause... Everybody says, "Follow the rules," yeah (Yeah) But what works for me might not work for you (It don't work for everybody) Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong (Yeah) It just goes to show We're just practicing, and no one really knows Aus Songtexte Mania