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[Verse 1]
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Read common knowledge stockpile your brain
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You get burned in the sun, you get wet in the rain

They teach you to fix what needs to be broke
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I say he who laughs first didn't get the joke -        Go on and tap your mind
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Quit knocking on mine

[Verse 2]
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An English teacher from Vancouver

She asked me to write something for her students.
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I wrote knowledge adds wisdom let slide -
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She says now really - I wanna tell you
     A
Quit knocking on mine

[Bridge]
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Knowledge is power got your books, go read 'em
D
Wisdom is ignorance; stupidity I call freedom

[Verse 3]
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Comic books, the Bible, roadmaps, pornography - Anything you wanna read
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Go out and sit in a field sometime
     A
Quit knockin' on mine (knockin' on mine) 

[Bridge]
F#m
...power got your books, go read 'em
D
Wisdom is ignorance; stupidity (ha!) I call freedom

[Verse 4]
A 
You read common knowledge every day.

You're as common as that newspaper you throw away
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You get burned in the sun you get wet in the rain
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Won't you ever change
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Won't you ever learn

A 
Quit knockin' on mine (knockin' on mine)