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Rules

from Rulebook by Dean Tyler K

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When you finally start to own who you are, you discover a lot about the society that forced you to not own it. Who created the rules? That's not me.

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Why is there a set of rules for everything that happens in life?
Nothing can be done without a hand to walk you through it.
A way to write, a way to sing, a way not to do everything.
But what if I didn't have to be told,
What if I just knew it?

I'm not tall enough, I'm not in time,
My words don't mean anything without a perfect rhyme.
It's hard to share your work without the fear of rejection.
You have to fit the mold to fit their image of perfection.

No, that's not me.

I don't need your textbooks,
I don't need straight hair,
I don't need instructions,
I don't need your written laws
I just need to break the rules and just do me.

Artists these days don't care about the lyrics
They just care about the beat not singing what they're feeling.
So what do I gotta do, just bang a bass drum
And sing about drugs or something else dumb?
No.

That's not me.

So if I get success and fame and notoriety
I'm not gonna do it by the rules of someone else's stupid game.
Lead with my soul and lead with my mind
What I feel is what I write, it creates a better vibe

Nobody can't tell me that I'm doing is wrong 'cause
What is right and what is wrong?
Where does it come from?
I don't aim for what's right
I just do what's true to me,
Then hopefully you'll see
Right through, inside of me.

I don't need a romance
I don't need to be tall
I don't need your advice
I don't need your point of view
I just need to break the rules and just do me.

Why can't we open up our eyes to what's behind this world's disguise?
Desensitized,
Unrecognized.
Zombified
By what's televised, no.
No, that's not me.

I don't need negativity
I don't need your shade
I don't need your input
I don't need your rules...

Oo Whoa
I don't need your point of view
And I don't need your autotune
I don't need your advice
And I don't need your help

I just need to break the rules and just...
And just.
Do me.

Mm badndada bada.

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from Rulebook, released December 3, 2020
Dean Tyler K, Russ DeSalvo

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Dean Tyler K New York

I have spent my whole life trying to find where I belong. I've always felt destined for great things, but who decides which voices are important enough to be heard? I will continue to create what is true to me. With hard work and and undying determination to succeed, I will achieve my wildest dreams. ... more

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