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If you can't soar with the Eagles, don't fly with the flock 

If you can't soar with the Eagles, don't fly with the flock

The complete opposite of if you can't beat them, join them
It means if you can't be the best then you may as well be nothing at all.
person 1: I gave into peer pressure last night and tried crystal math
person 2: If you can't soar with the Eagles, don't fly with the flock
person 1: oh.

don't bring it to the mountain

stolen from the Real World; something you say to someone when you don't want them to hold a grudge against you..you just want to deal with it here and now.
Nick: "I'm pretty pissed off at Greg right now for not coming to my birthday party...I'm just going to be secretly mad at him."
Matt: "Naw man, don't bring it to the mountain. Call him and tell him how you really feel!"

Ain’t that just the way 

Describing of an inconveniencing or disappointing outcome spoken by a person(s) who has excepted the outcome for what it is rather than being upset

Synonyms: “It do be like that sometimes” or “It is what it is”
(After the office worker ran out of pencils at the worst time and no one has extras) “Well ain’t that just the way.”

ain't swinging off that side of the plate 

Johnny: Josh, I want you tonight!
Josh: Whoa, you might want me, but i ain't swinging off that side of the plate, you know what im saying.

I didn't come down in the last shower 

Australian slang, meaning I'm wise to your game, or don't play me for a fool. This is a slang term not heard often in the regional centres, but reasonably common among the old blokes in smaller townships.
Davo(upon hearing something incredulous): carn mate, I didn't come down in the last shower!

Other people wouldn't stay Other people don't obey You and me are both the same You should really run away 

this confirms that this song is being sung from the perspective of Billie’s abuser. it explains the tone of the song, and completely changes the way you look at it. Lines like “If you find it hard to swallow, I can loosen up your collar, ‘Cause, as long as you’re still breathing, Don’t you even think of leaving” make it very overwhelmingly clear that this is the perspective Billie is portraying

Also, while some people think the Spotify interview thing from the lyric version disproves this, it just doesn’t. She says the song was made to be “insane live”, not a fun song in terms of concept. She said she was going through crazy feelings at the time and you’d understand if you looked at the lyrics, but doesn’t say what the feelings were. On an album where Billie is venting about her trauma, a song like this would have no place in the project. I don’t know how she could have made this more obvious then by saying me and you are both the same

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yeah man, Other people wouldn't stay Other people don't obey You and me are both the same You should really run away