Back to School (Mini Maggit) Lyrics
So run
Run, right back to school
Check it
[Verse 1]
Look back, I sift through all the cliques
Roaming' the halls all year, making me sick
While everyone's out trying to make the cut (What)
And when you think you know me right, I switch it up
Behind the walls, smokin' cigarettes and sippin' vodka
I hop a fence to catch a cab, ain't no one can stop us
Give me a break about some other mess
What were you? Act like it's everything you got
[Chorus]
Push back the square
Now that you need her but you don't
So there you go
'Cause back in school
We are the leaders of it all, so
[Verse 2]
Stop that quit, all that quit
Who ruined it? You did, now grab a notebook and a pen
Start taking notes on me and everyone who's on the top
You think we're on the same page, but I know we're not
I'll be the man, watch your backpacks, pens, and pencils
Just like Keith, I'm flippin' it, while you just keep it simple
You just can't go on rocking the clothes
Coppin' the stance, 'cause really it's everything that you're not
Push back the square
Now that you need her but you don't
So there you go
'Cause back in school
We are the leaders of it all
[Bridge 1]
So transpose
Or stop your lies
It's what you do
Transpose or stop your lies
So run
So why don't you run, so why don't you run?
So why don't you run back to school?
So why don't you run, so why don't you run?
[Bridge 2]
All you are, now I'm on the next page
All you are, it's time to close the book up
All you are, I'm on the next page
All you are, close the book up now
[Chorus]
Push back the square
Now that you need her but you don't
So there you go
'Cause back in school
We are the leaders of all
We are the leaders of all
We are the leaders of all
So why don't you run, so why don't you run?
So why don't you run back to school?
So why don't you run, so why don't you run?
About
“Back to School (Mini Maggit)” is an abridged version of the song “Pink Maggit”, which was released as both a 3-song single and an 8-song EP. Commercially successful and achieving radio play, Maverick Records decided to released the band’s third album White Pony, with the song as a bonus track.
This album right here is not the album that we turned into the label. As far as we’re concerned, the first edition was the record. Done. Then they talked us into re-releasing it with another song on it, and it’s not like I’m against the song or whatever, but I liked the sequence we had when we first turned it in. When this version came out, a little part inside all of us felt like: ‘Fuck! We just totally compromised.’ And I know that a lot of our fans felt bad about it too.
“Back to School”‘ was a mistake. A calculated song, that had been built up with only one aim in mind: It should be a single. … “Back to School” was released because I was an idiot. I wanted to prove something [to the record company]. Months later, after White Pony was released, they wanted us to do a new version of “Pink Maggit”. They said we lost our heaviness, and there were no more singles on the album. First, I wanted to stick this idea up my ass, but then I thought: “I’m gonna show those fuckers how easy it is to create a hit-single.” And so I rapped a hip hop part on that song, we shortened it and half an hour later, the hit-single was ready to roll on.
- Chino Moreno
Q&A
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In an interview with Rock Sound magazine, singer Chino Moreno gave the following background on where the song came from:
I remember the record had already been out for a while and had some radio play, but they wanted a second single and they didn’t think there were any more on the record. I said, ‘Well how do you know, because you haven’t tried with any others?’ I remember them sitting me down and pointing me out Papa Roach and Linkin Park had sold 6million albums while we hadn’t sold a tenth of that. To me, they were saying they wanted some rap-rock, and at the time I was already way over making music like that., but my response was no way at first, and then they pointed out the chorus of ‘Pink Maggit’ was so great, so they asked me to rewrite it as a three-minute song. They kept hounding me about so I was like ‘Watch this’, because formulaic songs are so easy to write.
In one day I rewrote the music and the lyrics, we recorded and then I said ‘Is that what you were talking about?’ And then they said they were going to release it with a video, they were going to get Paul Hunter who directed Eminem videos to do it, so at that point I was like ‘Whatever, I’ll trust you, I don’t care’. When a record company gets behind you like that it’s hard to say no, because the years prior they wouldn’t give us the time of day. So the fact they wanted to push things and pay for things was great. I look back on it now and I don’t regret it – it’s not a terrible song – but the only thing I made a point on was that when it came to do the reissue, they reissued the original record without that song on. It came out and it did what it did.
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