Intro: | C | Am7 | G7 | C |

Part 1:
      C                       Am7
You explode quietly, you keep bad habits for years,
      G7                                 C
you retain it like long division all the things that they told you to revise.
          C            Am7
You learn   quiet, you learn to please,
            G7                                     C
you're best friends with the teacher, she looks at you with unease.

Part 2:
         C                   Am7
You take notes all the time, change in tone,
          G7                                C
and worry they're taking notes too, reading you like a palindrome.
         C                     Am7
Not sure quite what you did at six years old
      G7                             C
to be told you're too much, you were learning the world.

Part 3:
         C                           Am7
You were learning yourself, you were learning what you could hold,
    G7                       C
you still hold too much, old   habits die hard.

Outro:
   C                    Am7
Na nay, na nay, Mama, Mama, na nay, na nay.
   G7                   C
Na nay, na nay, Mama, Mama, na nay, na nay.
   C                    Am7
Na nay, na nay, Mama, Mama, na nay, na nay.
   G7                   C
Na nay, na nay, Mama, Mama, na nay, na nay.
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