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If I went to a private school
I'd be into Tibetan cooking
If I went to a private school
I'd be vain, cerebral, much better looking

If I went to a private school
I'd live at Death's door
With painters and musicians
And the deliberately poor

I'd reject society's mores from my garret in Berlin
My girlfriend would be thin

If I went to a private school
If I went to a private school

If I went to a private school
I'd gun run in Bahrain
I'd live in a New Orleans dosshouse
Feelin' the Blues Man's pain

I'd hang with my separatist lesbian friend with piercings in her labia
She's had a thing for me since the year 12 formal at Xavier
We'd have a child, go running wild on the mean streets of New York
You can eat out of dumpsters but still know how to hold your fork

I'd spend a year in a crack den, non compos mentis
When the heroin got too much, well dad knows a good dentist
My photographic exhibition would be called The Devils Cache
It would spell Barosian Hell, I wouldn't pronounce the 'H'
I'd be shortlisted at Cannes with my film about a Bible toting killer;
I'd stay in the family villa

If I went to a private school
If I went to a private school

If I went to a private school
I'd track with sherpas in Kathmandu
I'd commune with the Zulu
I'd take part in a violent coup

I wouldn't obsess about petrol
I wouldn't care about the interest rate
I wouldn't live in a suburban box with sport as my opiate
If I went to a private school, I wouldn't be like you
Your life's a plague, I'm L’Étranger, I read that in Camus

If I went to a private school, I'd be impetuous, spontaneous
If I went to a private school, I'd eschew domestic bliss
If I went to a private school, I'd be beautiful and dangerous

Hang on -- I did go to a private school

Why'd I turn out like this?
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