| You know my mother told me but I as a little boy
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| It’s about time that you grew up son, and threw away your toys
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| I ried and cried and i could’nt beleive
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| That life could be so cruel, and oh so mean
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| It was a lesson that I could’nt forget, but it didn"r change a thing
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| Well when I was an adolescent the teacher said to me
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| That I was the worst child that he ever did see
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| They tried to dominate me into submission
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| But they cound’nt bring me down, now the wheel’s going to turn
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| Try to break me, they said «he'll never learn»
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| I said
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| «Don't forsake me cause you necer know when the tables will turn»
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| Stand up and take it like a man
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| Stand up take it if you can
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| Stand up take it like a man
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| Stand up and take it, just take it like a man
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| Wgen i turned 17 I thought that everthing would change
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| But i quickly realised that the difference was the same
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| The teachers turnes into police, the pencils became guns
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| Now educations called suppression, the playground’s called a slum
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| Try to make me conform when will you learn?
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| I said «don't mistake me
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| It’s just a matter of time before your neighborhood burns»
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| Daddy always said to me «boy just do the best you can
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| In every situation stay on your feet and take it like a man» yeah
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| Stand up, take it
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| Stand up, take it like a man
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| Stand up, take it
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| Stand up, take it like a man if you can
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| Stand up and take it like a man
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| Stand up take it if you can
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| Stand up take it like a man
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| Now you’re a man son, start acting like one
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| Separate yourself from the crowd
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| Stand up and take it like a man now |