Preaching teaching prating braying saying every day Mind your manners and your Ps and Qs If you play it safe don't be late and brush your teeth and clean your plate But if you never let her rip then what's the use? Advisory parental, medical and dental Someone tell me what we're saving for Tuning in and dropping out but making sure you're all about A mortgage and the two point four Find a wife Get a life Get a man Make a plan We can't tell left from right Glass ceiling Sinking feeling World is spinning We are reeling But we don't give up the fight Living in a system inconsistent with your will to live Tuck your t-shirt in Regulations keep you in your station no more shits to give Tuck your t-shirt in You're a victim of the scene you got creases in your jeans Tuck your t-shirt in Never doing what you want and never saying what you mean Tuck your t-shirt in There's no option called failure, there's no time to wait your mobility is grinding to a halt But it's later than you think because we all end up in stink If you let it go it's nobody else's fault Shaping up and shipping out and getting crushed beneath the doubt Of all the stuff you really should have done You make a wage, you act your age and find your place upon the stage But you'll never get your way beneath the gun Stay in school Know the rules Turn the cheek Suffer fools Still going nowhere fast Keep fit Bigger tits Look good Feel like shit How long can it last? Cut loose fill your boots get your share of all the loot This is you, keep it true do the things you want to do Be yourself no one else not the guy that you were telt Do it all get it wrong get it out and get it on