It seems we’ve made no progress within the last 12 years
Because deadlines and tests and fucked up kids
Have transformed high school into a house of fears
And if the budget keeps blocking sunlight we can’t help these growing trees
And I doubt that the integral of blah blah blah is what I fucking need
So I’ll take my pencil, break it on my head
There’s no use in knowing how long Calvin Coolidge’s been dead
If you’re not getting real education go complain
Because we deserve all that we want
Term papers declare them useless, I’ll get them off the net
I don’t remember a single thing my 8th grade teachers said
Except the propagandist dittos they told me to read
Such a paucity of free thought. I must believe what they believe
So I’ll take those dittos and burn them till they’re dead
Hooray for Operation Desert Storm is what they said
On my Brit Lit quizzes I just guessed. I’ll believe everything I want
In school they constantly reminded me
That I wasn’t smart enough and that I wasn’t cool
In school they rarely tell you there’s more to life than school
Well I learned how to add and anti-differentiate
Well I learned the formula for Sodium Benzoate
Well I learned the 1 chord to the 5 is a half cadence
I learned how to ask how to piss in English and Spanish
We have to take some time to just forget about our classes
Seize the day it doesn’t matter if we fall on our asses
Cause you’ll learn that g=9.8 and w=mg
But I rarely get a thing from class that helps me become me
So raise your hand high, say what you wanna say
And if they condemn and fail you you will still be ok
Just be yourself and succeed anyway
I’m afraid of not doing what I want