I climb up, spending daylight   Slide down bankrupt on the other side   Some sweet girl playing my wife   Runs off with a boy   whose bike she'll ride      Playground, it's a playground   Marked by the masters   And bruised by the bullies in the   Playground, every day ground   Never stop rehearsing   Rehearsing for the big square world      Bells will ring, door flies open   Hare and Greyhound   in the old kiss chase   You've been caught, game is ended   Smack on kisser from her slap on face      Playground, it's a playground   Marked by the masters   And bruised by the bullies in the   Playground, every day ground   Never stop rehearsing   Rehearsing for the big square world   Watch the leaves all tear away   One by one   Leaving you but lined like an exercise book   What did your report once say?   Know the one?   This boy must try harder to please   from down on his knees      Playground, playground   Careful what you say ground   Playground, playground   Gonna make you pay ground      Brain gets bent, heart gets broken   You can't jump off once the pages turn   School is out but never over   That's the only lesson you can learn      Playground, it's a playground   Marked by the masters   And bruised by the bullies in the   Playground, every day ground   Never stop rehearsing   Rehearsing for the big square...   Playground, it's a playground   You're for the high jump   If you let 'em push you in the   Playground, every day ground   There's no escaping,   Escaping from their big square world      You may leave school but it never leaves you