Leiv Reed Not An Exception (feat. Franz Schubert) Lyrics

I have to stay awake, there´s things that must get done/
When my mind starts drifting off I have to pull it back again/
And I curse these dull moments, when I lay my pencil down/
And instead go out drinking, but myself or with anyone around/..
R.: And I´m not an exception, it´s more like a rule/
That here in this little town, everyone´s a drinking fool/..

Didn´t take me two years, to get me to realize this/
And I hope it won´t take a lifetime to get me over it/
Shall it lie dead, true and unsaid?/
Me, I would´ve been grateful if someone really cared/..
R.: ´Cause I´m not an exception, it´s more like a rule/
That the people of this nation, spend their money on being fools/..

You may throw me in prison & put my appartment up for sale/
But still I´ll be of this conviction, that we´re walking down the wrong trails/
And the laws that´s laid on us, may be needed and just/
But the reasons for why they are there come from something plainly cruel and unfair/..
R.: And I´m not an exception, just a p___ in a game/
There are never simple solutions, but that is what they claim/..

When everything´s organized, out in forms and structures/
Suiting this bureaucracy made of and for idle hands/
All the broken souls that couldn´t quite fit in/
They slip off and fall out, and are stamped as those of sin/..
R.: But they are not exceptions, that won´t fit in with the rules/
These are called rejections, the drunkards and the fools/..