My thoughts on the present school system |
Like sheep that are herded to the slaughter Watch the passion drain from our sons and from our daughters Watch creativity outlawed By your standardized world A desperate attempt to civilize what cannot be understood All it takes to change the future is the youth Tomorrow is dark, feel the pain of the tooth The pain of the bite from all those that resign The pain of a child wanting to draw outside your lines To live without your ignorant confines How many more must suffer to realize the system is the problem not them How many more must fail till you realize the test is the problem not them How do you stand against the only thing you've ever known How do you speak out against a cruelty that has always shown It's face to the public cause it's always been accepted Nobody questioned cause nobody wants to be rejected Nobody can speak the words they can't form All they've ever know is how to conform Accept the system Ignore injustice Speak out against racism Despite your prejudice A man can not live by two names I'm telling you this is not a game We're dealing with the future and who reins The world or brings it all to flame We never speak about what we don't want to hear That we might be the problem, the end is near Cause if we stop the uneducating education's hold We'll dare to see passion and all those who are bold And so I sing freedoms eulogy My prayer that one day we'll wake up and see See how the world will end if we don't act See that we need to start to react To the the growing problem that we cause Or else we will feel tomorrow's claws And so I resign just like the rest To the system that supposedly makes us our best Cause how can one man change what's always been When everyone's fighting so hard for this unspeakable sin To rob the youth of what makes them them To make them society's image of zen A peaceful stupor is not the solution Not when stupid is the common resolution We can't stand idly by and wait For someone to demonstrate The courage that we lack To dare to fight back Against what we all know is wrong This has gone on for far too long I need us all to wake up and see, I'm on my knees We gotta fix the system, I'm begging you please |