G
I hate this place,
      C               D             G
I can barely keep the misery off my face,
             D                       C
Yeah there's one place i much rather be,
       D                   C
Taking transfiguration and arithmancy,
    G               C                  D
And hanging with my friends in the owlery,
    G                             C
But instead i'm learning parts of speech,
    D                  G
And trying not to fall asleep,
    C                         D                     G
And avoiding the only girl in school who might like me,

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           G
It's so grotesque,
         C                      D                   G
When the guy sitting next to me drools all over his desk,
      D                       C
And i almost raise my hand to complain,
           D                         C
But then i realize i that i wanna be doin' the same,
     G                C             D
So i put my head down on my desk as well,
    G                      C
And suddenly im learning a spell,
   D                      G
To make my teacher's head swell,
    C
But then he wakes me up,
    D                G
And i can't help but yell,

Engorgio!!

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           G                 C         G
This isn't hogwarts this is a concrete box,
        C                                    G
And the pictures on the wall are never gonna talk,
        C              G             C          G
And the teachers don't care that the kids don't try,
             C                                    G
And the most magical thing we have is fluorescent lights,
         C                                         D
And they don't put you in hufflepuff if you're not cool,
  C                                            D
Instead they sort you in the parking lot after school,
      C                                       D
And i think if i looked into the mirror of erised,
       C                                  D
I'd be wearing wizard robes with gold and red,
        C              D             G
I'm not sayin' i'm not proud to be a nerd,
           C               D          G
But public school ain't no place for a wizard
            C               D           G
Yeah public school ain't no place for a wizard

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             G
Y'know whats gross,
         C                     D                   G
When the lunch meat looks like three day old soggy toast,
         D               C
But as i ate it anyway i overheard,
     D                         C
This guy i hardly know callin' me a nerd,
     G                       C             D
So i cast "sectum sempra" on him inside my mind,
                  G                     C
I wish there were house elves makin' my food,
    D                        G
And everything was perfectly spiced,
        C              D            G
And the only one being rude was the poltergeist,

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                  G
And here's what's true,
       C              D                     G
I'd do pretty much anything to go to wizard school,
         D                        C
I'd even call dolores umbridge my friend,
      D                             C
If it meant i'd never have to go to gym again,
      G                          C                      D
But i look around at all of this crap that's part of my life,
   G                  C
No ghost stalkin' the halls,
   D                       G
Or hangin' in the bathroom stalls,
        C
And the stairs don't move,
      D                    G
Cause there's no stairs at all.

           G                 C         G
This isn't hogwarts this is a concrete box,
        C                                    G
And the pictures on the wall are never gonna talk,
        C              G            C          G
And the teachers don't care and the kids don't try,
             C                                    G
And the most magical thing we have is fluorescent lights,
         C                                         D
And they don't put you in hufflepuff if you're not cool,
  C                                            D
Instead they sort you in the parking lot after school,
      C                                       D
And i think if i looked into the mirror of erised,
       C                                  D
I'd be wearing wizard robes with gold and red,
        C              D             G
I'm not sayin' i'm not proud to be a nerd,
           C               D          G
But public school ain't no place for a wizard
            C               D           G
Yeah public school ain't no place for a wizard