We walk in the room and you yell at us

I have a lot going on enough is enough

Home, work, and school, you don’t know my life

But as soon as I ask a question you put up a fight

“I already taught this, pay attention”

Sorry that when you speak it just sounds like bitchin

Classes run on and on

Kids are sleeping, ears lost in song

Minds are wandering, nobody cares

About the Aztecs or how we got here

We all have futures whether dark or bright

But the education systems teaching us nothing and that’s worth a fight

I want to be you

That’s what you don’t get

I want to be a teacher

But you’re making me despise it

What happened with you

Are we really that bad?

I’m a little stressed out, I worry about my Dad

You don’t care though as long as I pass

So I resort to acting out, acting like an ass

I don’t want to have to

I just want you to listen

And yet here I am now

Sitting in detention

Why’d you take this job?

To make our lives hell

You should have taken it so you could make my generation excel

But we have stoners and pregnancy and nobody cares

We have drivebys and shootings

but nobody even stares

It’s all of this sh*t you can’t say to your teacher

Don’t say it to your parents, the administration, your preacher

But if we cant speak

What has happened to our rights?

My freedom of speech, it’s all worth a fight

I deserve an education, one that’s solid and needed

This is the twenty first century

For Christ sake our education system is bleeding

Schools aren’t teaching what we need to learn

But I could tell you eight ways how to sleep, talk, or get a curve

Teachers are slacking, they don’t really care

Students aren’t showing up they know what awaits them

Fights, drugs, and sex it’s all in the air

School isn’t for learning but for all of their whims

I can’t wait for college maybe something will change

But then it might not

High School and College could both leave me to hang