Schooldays

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[Verse 1]

In Delaware when I was younger
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I would live the life obscene

In the spring I had great hunger
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I was Brando, I was Dean

Blaspheming, booted, blue-jeaned baby boy

Oh, how I made them turn their heads
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The townie brownie girls they jumped for joy
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Begged me, bless them in their beds___


[Verse 2]

In Delaware when I was younger
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I would row upon the lake

In the spring I had great hunger
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I was Keats, I was Blake

My pimpled pencil pains I’d bring

To frogs who sat entranced
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My drift-dreamed ditties I would sing
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The water strider danced


[Verse 3]

In Delaware when I was younger
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They thought St. Andrew had sufficed

But in the spring I had great hunger
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I was Buddha, I was Christ

You wicked wise-men, where’s your wonder?

You Pharisees, someday will pay
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See my lightning, hear my thunder
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I am truth, I know the way____