Here in America, # IDK in education,

Where we excel in standardization,

Of souls and resumes

Where you need a 4.5 gpa

And hey, I know I’m one of the ones in the 1%

I’ll repent for my hypocrisy in saying “break free”

I know, poor me, being reduced to numbers just isn’t my thing

4.33, schedule block B, math, PE and chemistry

Sometimes it’s hard to breathe

I can feel my chest cave and shrink

That chewing glass feeling

And imagine the kids sitting on the brink of failure

Which has grown to become something:

A cacophony of the anti American dream

And therefore we’re stripped of autonomy

In the land of the free

“I pledge Allegiance to”

The US public education system which finds its niche in the fact

That witchcraft seems to be the way to survive it

Deviation from the norm is only embraced for a profit

So basically unless you’re an actual prophet I’d color in the lines

It’s not like you could find the time

After the 7 hours of school, 3 for homework, 2 for sports, 7 for sleep, 2 for eating, and half a minute for breathing

So on Gregory, on Denise, to your 9 to 5s

Of course there’s those that thrive

Living their best life outside the American Assembly line, like in algebra there’s an exception to every rule

So I’ll run the rat race September to December to spring break to summer and then start it over

I’ll chew my glass, if you’ll fill one up with champagne for June of 2020, when the real world begins