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'School' opens Supertramp's breakthrough album, a song about the weight of conformity and the voices that insist you fit their mould. Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson wrote it as a direct challenge to the machinery of education and parental expectation, the kind that tells you not to question, not to linger, not to work things out for yourself. The song moves between scenes of everyday control, each one tightening the net a little more. What makes it work is the tension between the music's propulsive energy and the lyrical unease. Hodgson and Davies don't preach; they let the accumulated weight of "don't do this and don't do that" speak for itself, then offer something quieter and more uncertain in response. The narrator admits he might be mistaken, might be crazy, but insists that the choice to resist or comply has to remain yours. It's a song about adolescence that doesn't condescend to it, and about authority that doesn't pretend to have all the answers.
"School" is a single by Supertramp, released 1983. Full lyrics are available below.
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