Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) chords by Los Campesinos!

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Verse 1
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We
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know that we could sell your magazines
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If only you would give your life
to literature just
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Don't read Jane Eyre!
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Work on your algebra
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And stand out in the rain
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And give yourself to
simple pleasures but
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Never play card games!
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Meanwhile, back at home
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Not in communist Russia
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Well only on my headphones
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We plot our march onto the town hall
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And if we'd take prisoners
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Or simply simper at those
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fools
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Verse 2

Please don't tell me to do the math

Interlude 1

Verse 3
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Tonight we're gonna smash this place up
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And then we're gonna deck
it out with fairy lights till
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We are content!
And then we'll maybe drown
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in Dewey decimals
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But leave our shoes off at
the door 'cause
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That was the point!
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Of us at home with the moon
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Pouring through the curtains
Working on our attitude
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Towards the second hand
book shop employees
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Reading the inscriptions
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That were never meant for
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their eyes
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Verse 4

Please don't tell me to do the math

Interlude 2

Please don't tell me

Verse 5

to do the math

Please don't tell me to do the math

Verse 6
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I'm stitching up each
one of your pockets
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So when we are together you'll
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maybe look a little less bored
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I'm sticking your fin
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gers into sockets
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To kick-  start your little heart and
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maybe sleep a tiny bit more
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Oh maybe we should read more into
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the books that we adore
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Perhaps we should drink less vitamin c
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And now I'm shouting
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out in capital letters
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"I will throw you high fives if you keep your own
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secrets!!"