Special Education

Album: Age Against The Machine (2013)
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  • They call him Gipp saga
    It's the mutant, mister get down
    Live wire, words poke you like barbwire
    Maroon Range, sugar cane, oil stains
    My right leg longer than my left foot
    Put stripes next to squares, still peel the circle
    See spirits off of people, I don't see color
    I'm a special mind, yeah, a special kind
    Conceived in the South at a special time
    Covered in leaves of gold
    Scripture written in scrolls
    Spoken so clearly in tongues
    So my children would come
    Look around
    Can't you see
    The industry: they look like me

    I don't wear the clothes you wear
    I'm just different and I don't care
    It's kind of sad and it's a shame
    Everyone wants to be the same
    If you are listening here and now
    I'm sure I can show you how
    It's okay to be afraid
    Don't you want to be special

    I'm so special, boy
    Try to went stupid, dawg
    I eat nuclear waste and spit atomic bombs
    Plutonium explodes, that's my trademark
    Mushroom clouds inside, call 'em brain farts
    Gamma rays torch my system, now I'm going green
    G-force in my veins, pump hydrozine
    KT, 13, a microphone beam
    Cosmic juggernaut, extraterrestrial being
    Reign supreme, once conceived, boy, they broke the mold
    All this glory-seeking is getting totally outta control
    No one's original, Attack of the Clones
    Invasion of the swagger-snatchers
    Aim for the dome

    I don't wear the clothes you wear
    I'm just different and I don't care
    It's kind of sad and it's a shame
    Everyone wants to be the same
    If you are listening here and now
    I'm sure I can show you how
    It's okay to be afraid
    Don't you want to be special

    Scientists stood around in silence as I was being born
    Was I quote, unquote special or was there something wrong
    My skin was black, my heart was gold, and my tongue was silver
    And the fact that I could talk already, that was a thriller
    And I fear what I don't understand, so let me warn you
    Especially when nigga make too much noise about being normal
    Unusual but beautiful, the bondin' blessing
    Summa Cum Laude, School of Exceptional Youth
    X-Men
    Let me put something poetic into plain English
    I'd rather die than to not be distinguished
    The outsiders have no desires to be equal
    When V.I.P. stands for "Very Insecure People"

    I don't wear the clothes you wear
    I'm just different and I don't care
    It's kind of sad and it's a shame
    Everyone wants to be the same
    If you are listening here and now
    I'm sure I can show you how
    It's okay to be afraid
    Don't you want to be special

    S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
    Heavyweight in the game, T tip the scale
    I travel over the world back to ATL
    I'm friends with the mayor, I'm a truthsayer
    A crusader, a natural-born raider
    I need a deejayer to be the illustrator
    Let's get the dollar signs
    I said my Gucci rhymes
    I think it's tea time
    Don't need a co-sign
    T-Mo is on the grind, he about to let it shine
    Off in the skyline, don't worry 'bout mine
    I can handle lies and watching third eyes
    I make 'em go blind, I don't deserve to rhyme

    I don't wear the clothes you wear
    I'm just different and I don't care
    It's kind of sad and it's a shame
    Everyone wants to be the same
    If you are listening here and now
    I'm sure I can show you how
    It's okay to be afraid
    Don't you want to be special Writer/s: CAMERON F. GIPP, ROBERT TERRANCE BARNETT, THOMAS CALLAWAY, TREMAINE WINFREY, WILLIE EDWARD KNIGHTON
    Publisher: REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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