Be the Bigger Man

Sorry son you've got to go to school again today
 Coz if you don't get educated you will never find your way
 I know it doesn't seem it's worth it at the moment but it's true
 These are the best days of your life my boy, now, would I lie to you?
 So grab your lunch and text books, get your arse out of the door
 And I will drop you at the gates where I've dropped you a thousand times before
 Do your best to learn some lessons, have some fun and make some friends
 You've only got a few years left and you will thank me in the end
 I know it's hard, but don't cry, coz these things are sent to try
 I know you find it hard to see but you are always going to be the bigger man
 Thing is Dad, you never see what happens when you go
 I become the primary target for every bully that I know
 You always taught me that the best way to avoid a bully's fist
 Is to ignore them and they'll move along, but that's not true is it?
 So I accept my daily beating with a minimum of fuss
 And accept the fact that that's just how it goes for kids like us
 For the moderately intelligent, or slightly overweight
 The best years of your life might not be all that fucking great
 I know it's hard, but I won't cry, coz these things are sent to try
 But I find it hard to see how I am ever going to be the bigger man
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 I never stood a chance did I?
 The over weight religious kid with four eyes
 Everything that they put me through
 Made me a bigger man that all of you
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 Then one day two decades on I'm drinking in the pub
 And a guy that used to kick my arse at school just wanders up
 He tried to be all nice to me as if everything had changed
 I grabbed the fucker by the throat, and then carefully explained
 That a decade of sustained mental and physical abuse
 At the hands of him and all his friends has unsurprisingly produced
 A good deal of repressed resentment, and the tendency to snap
 No I don't want to be your friend, how could you ever have thought that?
 And I thought you were hard! So don't cry, coz these things are sent to try
 And that fear you're feeling now is no comparison to how
 You made me feel at school, but I won't stoop to being cruel
 No, I'll walk away in peace, because I'm always going to be the bigger man