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The Hoosiers – Rules (2007) | Track profile | Dork

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The Hoosiers
The Trick to Life
Rules

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Rules

Release date: 22nd October 2007

From The Trick to Life

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About This Track

"Rules" is a track by The Hoosiers, from the album The Trick to Life, released 22nd October 2007. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

The Hoosiers

The Hoosiers

Lyrics

Rules

[Intro]

(Sense never seemed to make sense to me)

[Verse 1]

Sense never seemed to make sense to me

And not the sense you administer repeatedly

Fled to the hills so I could clear my mind

I couldn't swallow the pills that I was prescribed

[Pre-Chorus]

People didn't always like each other, did they?

People didn't always get along

[Verse 2]

I read the news but it wasn't good

Because the bad guys won when the good guys should

Who was it that told you that the world's not flat?

Is it a reputable source, can it be taken as fact?

[Pre-Chorus]

People didn't always get along though, did they?

People didn't always like each other, did they?

[Chorus]

Ooh, you know you're never gonna get to find out anyway

The game plays us for fools

You know you're never gonna get to have the final say

You don't get to make the rules

[Verse 3]

People always looking for something they can't find

One man's fact's another's trick of the mind

People always looking for something they can't find

One man's fact's another's trick of the mind

[Pre-Chorus]

People didn't always like each other, did they?

People didn't always get along though, did they?

[Chorus]

Ooh, you know you're never gonna get to find out anyway

The game plays us for fools

You know you're never gonna get to have the final say

You don't get to make the rules

You know you're never gonna get to find out anyway

The game plays us for fools

You know you're never gonna get to have the final say

You don't get to make the rules

Rules

[Bridge]

One man falls, another takes his place

He chases the wind until the end of his days

One man falls, another takes his place

He chases the wind until the end of his days

One man falls, another takes his place

One man falls, another takes his place

One man falls, another takes

[Chorus]

Ooh, you know you're never gonna get to find out anyway

The game plays us for fools

You know you're never gonna get to have the final say

You don't get to make the rules

[Outro]

Get to make the rules

You don't get to make the rules

Get to make the rules

Rules

Get to make the rules

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Track details

From The Trick to Life

2007

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Album

The Trick to Life

Release year

2007

—Swear It on Your Life
—Song for the Uncertain (Demo)
—Cops and Robbers
—Everything Goes Dark
—Holding on for July (Demo)
—The Feeling You Get When
—Rules
—Save Me from Myself
—Run Rabbit Run
—The Trick to Life
—Ruby Blue
—A Sadness Runs Through Him
—Killer
—Money to Be Made
—Clinging on for Life

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Alan Sharland, Irwin Sparkes, Martin Skarendahl
Producer: Toby Smith