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

They teach you to fix 
what needs to be broke
I say he who laughs first 
didn't get the joke [D][D/C#]   
[Bm] Go on and tap your [A]mind
[A]Quit knocking on mine

[A]An English teacher 
from Vancouver
She asked me to write something 
for her students
I wrote knowledge adds 
wisdom let slide [D][D/C#][Bm]
She says now r[D]eally [D/C#] 
I wanna [Bm]tell you
Quit [A]knocking on mine

[F#m]Knowledge is power 
got your books go read em
[D]Wisdom is ignorance 
stupidity I call freedom

[A]Comic books the Bible 
roadmaps pornography 
Anything you wanna read
Go out and sit in a 
field sometime[D][D/C#][Bm]
Quit [A]knockin on mine 
knockin on mine

[F#m]power got your books 
go read em
[D]Wisdom is ignorance 
stupidity ha I call freedom

[A]You read common knowledge 
every day
you're as common as that 
newspaper you throw away
You get burned in the sun 
you get wet in the rain[D][D/C#][Bm]
won't you ever c[D]ha[D/C#]nge[Bm]
won't you ever l[D]ea[D/C#]rn[Bm]

[A]Quit knockin on mine 
knockin on mine