Intro: A D
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They began to see the signs I guess when I was only five
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Calling mom to tell her I survived a ten foot dive
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Burning kids clothes on yet another reckless crusade
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Pissing in a jar and promoting it as lemonade
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They told me I was hopeless, that I didn’t stand a chance
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Another high school dropout that didn’t have any plans
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Never learned to shut my mouth in class, every second was a bore
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Declared myself a combatant and a prisoner of war
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This is me, diagnosis unknown
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Symptomatic, fucked up to the bone
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Leaving school with nothing but a bunch of worthless grades
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Flunked in eighteen classes so I guess that was not my trade
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Mom still had her hopes up and dad didn’t really care
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All I ever wanted was to get the fuck out of there
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They told me I was hanging with the worst of all the crowds
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Drifting into adolescence breaking rules and being loud
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I didn’t want to grow up, it was all a pain to me
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Fuck the anticipations and the responsibilities
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This is me, diagnosis unknown
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Symptomatic, fucked up to the bone