Back to School -- The Deftones

So run!.. Right Right back to school 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 When you think you know me Right I switch it up Behind the walls smokin cigarettes and sippin vodka Hop a fence and catch a cab Ain't no one can stop us
Give me a break on some other mess While you act like it's everything you've got!


Push back the square Now that you need her but you don't well there you go
Cuz back in school we are the leaders of it all  So 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 know we're not
I'll be the man, watch your backpack, pens, and pencils  and just like Keith- I'm flippin it
While you just keep it simple You just can't go on rockin' the clothes, copying the stance
cuz really it's everything that you're not!


Push back the square Now that you need her cuse you don't well there you go
Cuz back in school We are the leaders of all So... transpose Or stop your life
It's what you do Transpose Or stop your lies So run (So why don't you run)
Right Back to school (So why don't you run) Cuz all you are - now I'm on the next page
All you are - It's time to close the book up All you are Now I'm on the next page
All you are Close the book up now Push back the square Now that you need her
cuse you don't well there you go Cuz back in school We are the leaders of all
So... transpose Or stop your life It's what you do Transpose
Or stop your lies So run(So why don't you run)

This isn't about school at all. The whole taking notes thing is just a metaphor. The song is an attack on all the bands that stole their sound, meaning the rap-metal genré they helped create. 
           (songfacts)