[Intro]

As flowers bloom, we take in new things as we grow

The garden that is school, would water us with new ideas to know

Primary seemed above, high seemed to be low

Once something to love, books I was glad to hold

On first looks I was sold, quiet in a library

Books, the stories they told, that’s where you would find me

Friends always so bold, as we played games kindly

I would never be scolded, by wandering blindly

Even at square one, I would be taught about the square

When no work was done, I was caught with those who carеd

I didn’t have to run from those who fought and swear

Bеcause they weren’t there, the students weren’t high, they shared

Now, I pray and hope for help

We’re expected to cope by ourselves

Show, not tell, we used to show and tell

Feels like I’m being yelled at by the school bell

[Verse 1]

Six cruel hours of our lives

Double take when they say we get half the time

If we don't attend this place then that's a crime

Cannot make a mistake to get past the line

Never needed to learn about the past

Nothing's rocket science but you make it seem like a blast

You don't even wanna teach this class

I don't have to learn, I just have to pass

That's the important thing, right? Good scores in the light

Good grades all day, no sleeping at night

Strict curriculum, airtight, you say you don't bite

Your bark is a worse sight, so with all of my might

I keep it in my head as it gets cut into quarters

School's a leading cause of mental disorders

Anxiety, lack of sleep, apathy about awards

I'm in a personality war, this person for

[Verse 2]

Yup, I ignore assembly

Other high achievers don't resemble me

I go through my path independently

If I write it out, I don’t get it mentally

Homework has never been a friend to me

Got other things to do like online buddies

Go outside, get my boots all muddy

If school ain’t the place to sleep, home ain’t the place to study

But okay, sit me down in a room

Tell me what to do, make me listen to Zoom

Garden of flowers, they don’t let us bloom

They see what I’m doing, I rose to the truth

They don’t like it ‘cause it’s new

Happiness doesn’t come out of the blue

Nothing is hair-raising, Caillou

You destroyed my mental health, who knows what I might do?

You care for our health? Yes

All the work you give us makes us stressed

I heard the silent pain in the test

Sick bay ain’t help the pain in the chest

Punish us if we ain’t the best

I don’t see why I can’t write less

I don’t want to write longer for no reason

There I said it, expel me for treason

Attention spans are slowly dwindling

This generation is going to read the whole thing

Spend the whole lesson preaching

Nothing useful that you’re teaching

Your commerce talk, I’m not buying

Health, the subject name is lying

I’m in a high school, drugs I’m not trying

I’m not falling for your attendance bribing

Walk into any classroom

Notice the original ideas that pass through? None

Creativity, unwillingly, all done

No one wants to live life if you can't have a little fun

And you tell us "Bags on the floor

Two lines before you reach the door

42 lines, copy off the board

This is your new life~ hey, why are you bored?

No friend groups, I demand silence

Why are you high fiving, no violence

As I drone on, better open your eyelids

No working together, or you'll steal like pirates

I see you chewing, spit your gob out Violet

You look so blue, better smile, you'll be fine if

You deny all your kindness, stay quiet, you'll find that

You're doing it all right if you feel like you're dying"

[Verse 3]

I've felt sick one too many times

Never felt free, for the last time

What's the time

Only 9:05

These six cruel hours of our lives

Sever our lives from what we like

Everything we hate, we choose in year nine

No one pays attention, god I feel blind

Teachers, you enjoy this?

Supposedly, this year could've been avoided

But you didn't give the choice, Miss

Used to play Minecraft, now I've been voided

I feel like I want to surrender

Dragging my mind through this in the beginning

But I feel like school is the ender

And I got a keyboard with musical talent

But nobody gave me space to enter

Building up all of my knowledge

But nobody gave me time to render

I do what I can, if I'm at twenty percent

And give twenty percent, and get twenty percent

I just did my best, but you act like it's less

Wasn't tryna guess, but you go and press

On my head and I get it, you think I'm pathetic

I sweat when energetic, I'm not perfect, don't pretend

That anybody ever has been

[Verse 4]

Hold up, I need a breath

I see this and prefer death

So many years of this, affirmative

But every day feel like I'm getting worse at this

As I'm hurting inside

And I'm not learning inside

Feel like Bo Burnham inside

Cause I feel like shit, this is the school's diss

You can't hide how the world works, now I feel like Socko

Teachers aren't here, time for substitute lotto

Will I get the Indian or the Asian

Going at me for every idea I know?

It is all the same, I blame the school that hasn't changed

No difference between its reflection and its shadow

Can't even laugh, haha, I can't learn

With this Lady talking Gaga with her heart so shallow

[Verse 5]

Don't go claiming that you don't pull the wool over the eyes of these sheep

Give them more screen than they need that they might turn into Mareep

Economics? Time is money, this useless information isn't cheap

Not even interesting, you can't verbally poison us if we're asleep

Yeah, one last time, six cruel hours of our lives

Five days a week, forty weeks a year, wasted just to revise

We can all agree, the biggest abomination known to mankind

Funny how you taught me how to write and you can't read between the lines

[Outro]

Enough complaining, we need to use it

Need a resolution, a solution

Enough delusion, enough confusion

Take the best ideas of schooling and fuse it

Step one, no more assessments

It's good to know where they're at, but there's too much stress when you test it

Stress when you expect perfection, by putting marks on every question

Open book tests are better to use what you've learned instead of guessing

Step two, no more essays with long paragraphs

Flunked that test, had to be in a specific structure, I had to ask

Step three, introduce creativity, it isn't the hardest

Not every artist is a student, but every student can be an artist

Might not be dealt all the aces, but spades can make a cardist

All students hurt during a hard test, shouldn't be about who gets the farthest

I know that I've been waging war

Through the flaming doors, I know it's true

But things need to change, need to rearrange

As much as I hate it, and really hate it

It starts with you