Wailing Paddle - Rudiments

Hangin' up the old wailing paddle

Pull the splinters out of your skin

Ice your knuckles, vow revenge, corporal gruel, teaching cruel

Hard times, you missed a grand crime

Ingrained acceptance, invisible scars

Take a whippin' like a man and you’ll be a winner, yeah

Don’t you wanna shine like the stars?

Good boys do, good girls don’t

Double standards feeding off the rusty remains of the past

The things we learn from consequence

We’re all just figures messed up in coincidence

You live your life by foolishness

The things we least require take priority

Who listens to the mudrakers anymore?

Spit the fire like before, just like Mark Twain

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Driving past the billboards with the legs that sell

Get yourself a new car and a bottle and the babes will follow you

It’s all just fun you see, no one gets hurt

Why should we question what is commonplace?

The things we learn from consequence

We’re all just figures messed up in coincidence

You live your life by foolishness

The things we least require take priority

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away, play the roles away

Play the roles away in the classroom

In the back row, same old lecture

Play the roles away in the locked room

There’s an asshole yellin' at your mom

Play the roles away on the bar stool

Tryin' not to be, but it’s hard to change

Play the roles away, but in the end

Wondering who ever stared all the roles that we play?

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