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Here we are at this impasse again
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the same old argument, the same old end
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You're looking at me with those angry eyes
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You say, "Why, do you always have to be right?"
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well let me tell you (spoken)
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Sittin’ there on the bus to school
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Little Sallie tellin' us that her poor old
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dog had died and gone to Heav'n in the sky
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I turned around and told her that wasn't true
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It's just a story that your parents tell you to
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hide the truth and I made her cry
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Because I've always had to be right
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This is not just a random event
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you can ask anybody I've met in my life
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I can't just forgive and forget
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Yeah I've always had to be right
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I remember back when I was 10
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my sister broke a vase I got pinned with her
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crime, my mother thought that I lied
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So she held a bar of soap to my mouth
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told me she was going to wash the lies out
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but out of spite I took a bite
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Because I've always had to be right
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This is not just a random event
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you can ask anybody I've met in my life
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I can't just forgive and forget
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Yeah I've always had to be right
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Just because I'm no longer a kid
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doesn't mean I won't do those things that I
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did back then, so don't be surprised
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If I always have to be right
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Because I have always had to be right
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This is not just a random event
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you can ask anybody I've met in my life
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I can't just forgive and forget
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Yeah I've always
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had to be right