school
it’s public school
and if you want to survive to get out there alive
you’d best keep
what makes you sleep
well enough to keep you down like the poorly trained clown we become
here
make something stick, find your clique, then you will do well to teach the same
work
you’d better work
and if you want to become what makes us like the sum
of our fears
please hide those tears
this is the way, it’s okay if you only remain in your place
or give face
because if you give a shit, please refrain, and print it on something
some office bling
i cannot play like you
so hate and beat me too
cause whatever i do
they’re laughin’ at ricky
i can’t work like you
hate and ignore me too
cause whatever i do
they’ll be laughin’ at ricky
birth
my life anew
fat, hairy, quiet, I diet on all things that young children do
but without you
(you couldn’t get through)
so you would walk and just chalk it up to a poor choice that you made
but how could i fade
from the mirror of your car as you drove like a star far away
i was nothing to you
but a joke you could do
i remember you too
as you’re laughin’ at ricky
how ironic that you
of all people would do
something without a clue
and be laughin’ at ricky
now?
the music now?
why would you turn your back, jack, on this stack of successes and fame?
am i to blame?
don’t be so silly and cruel, no fool like an old fool, don’t you see
(what) you could be to me?
so just stop this, don’t you miss what you were and the nice things you had
you can’t be glad
I cannot be for you
what is simply untrue
join the ranks of those who
love laughin’ at ricky
i have always been me
not the first time you see
that i’m mine and i’m free
and you’re laughin’ at ricky
i am sorry you don’t
or maybe you just won’t
understand or do nothing
but laugh at ricky
i am this and not there
and i wish you could care
for the soul that i bare
and stop laughin’ at ricky
(don’t you) see nothing’s changed
it has just rearranged
and it’s nothing so strange
to stop laughin’ at ricky
(make me) your catalyst
to be some of your best
wihtout asking the rest
and start laughin’ with ricky
now