Sorry son you've got to go to school again today
Coz if you don't get educated you will never find your way
I know it doesn't seem it's worth it at the moment but it's true
These are the best days of your life my boy, now, would I lie to you?
So grab your lunch and text books, get your arse out of the door
And I will drop you at the gates where I've dropped you a thousand times before
Do your best to learn some lessons, have some fun and make some friends
You've only got a few years left and you will thank me in the end
I know it's hard, but don't cry, coz these things are sent to try
I know you find it hard to see but you are always going to be the bigger man
Thing is Dad, you never see what happens when you go
I become the primary target for every bully that I know
You always taught me that the best way to avoid a bully's fist
Is to ignore them and they'll move along, but that's not true is it?
So I accept my daily beating with a minimum of fuss
And accept the fact that that's just how it goes for kids like us
For the moderately intelligent, or slightly overweight
The best years of your life might not be all that fucking great
I know it's hard, but I won't cry, coz these things are sent to try
But I find it hard to see how I am ever going to be the bigger man
I never stood a chance did I?
The over weight religious kid with four eyes
Everything that they put me through
Made me a bigger man that all of you
Then one day two decades on I'm drinking in the pub
And a guy that used to kick my arse at school just wanders up
He tried to be all nice to me as if everything had changed
I grabbed the fucker by the throat, and then carefully explained
That a decade of sustained mental and physical abuse
At the hands of him and all his friends has unsurprisingly produced
A good deal of repressed resentment, and the tendency to snap
No I don't want to be your friend, how could you ever have thought that?
And I thought you were hard! So don't cry, coz these things are sent to try
And that fear you're feeling now is no comparison to how
You made me feel at school, but I won't stoop to being cruel
No, I'll walk away in peace, because I'm always going to be the bigger man