I Don't Have to Do What You Say

(To be read aloud.)

I don't have to do what you say,
I don't have to do what you do,
I don't have to say what you do,
I don't have to say what you say,
I don't I don't I don't I don't!

Just because you stand up when the band play
It don't mean I stand when the band play, no way!
Just because you think you say something funny
It don't mean I have to laugh, no way no way!

No way no way no way no way,
No way no way no way no way!

No no I don't have to do what you say,
Even more, what you say is what I don't have to do!
I don't care which way you slice it
You don't halfway even entice me into it!

Do-wop-de-wop, oh hear the band begin to play,
I don't stand for the band, no I don't stand for the band,
The band I can't stand is the band I don't stand for,
Doesn't matter what you do about it, you who stand!

Do-wop-de-wop, oh listen to the band play,
You listen to the band every day, not me boy,
I got better things than the band to do,
Things that you don't say to do but I do those things.

You don't say to do, but I do!
You don't say to do, but I do!
Sometimes you say to do but I don't do!
Sometimes you say to do but I don't do!

No way do I have to do what you do or say
Or say what you do or say,
No way no way no way no way no way no way,
No way no way no way no way no way no way!

Just because you say to destroy Atlantis
It don't mean I destroy Atlantis,
Atlantis oh boy Atlantis it destroyed long time ago anyway,
You think long ago in Atlantis they listen to the band play?

Do-wop-de-wop, the band plays on today,
The band don't play because you say for the band to play,
I think they play on today anyway,
Regardless what you say and I don't have to do or say.

You say to stay but I don't have to stay
No matter what to stay would be or become some day,
Cause I don't have to do or say what you say to do or say,
I don't I don't I don't I don't!

Now you better know I could stay if you say to stay,
It's just I don't have to stay no matter what you say,
Doo-wop-de-wop, oh listen to that band play,
Oh I guess I will if I decide to stay (but I don't have to).

What I decide to do, go or stay, that's the way
It happen that I go or stay, just that way,
No way do it happen because of what you say,
Even if you pay to have me stay I could go away.

Do-wop-de-wop, oh that tune that the band do play,
Never do it make want to stay not go away,
And I would destroy Atlantis only if it got in my way,
Your way is not the way I do to decide to do or say,
It's not it's not it's not it's not!