"Stay in School" by Patches

Verse 1:

We've all got a dream or two that sits insides our heads

(How about)

A power that is never even said?

The young who think they have this surely fill me full of dread

Imagine not deserving anything that you possess

But still picturing yourself as your house's biggest threat

(Oh dear)

Don't get me started, even if they're lion-hearted

Who is gonna listen if their intellect aint sharpened

 

Chorus:

Someone young can get it done

Maybe it could be you

But there's a road for us all to walk

A system that's been proved

To be ineffective, as we are all reminded

How much we all hated it

Once we look behind it

I can't think of something better,

And I'm sad you have to wait

For a real education

Once you graduate

 

Verse 2:

A social magnum opus? No, but know it's far from hopeless

(Hey)

Once everything is said and done, you'll see the doors that opened

I understand it sucks, you think I don't feel my youth was wasted?

But at least by life story wasn't something copy-pasted

100K times over, I left knowing I'm a soldier

I used my youth to prove that I don't lose my composure

I can't be the one to gift a generation patience

I can only pray they find truth in my explanation

(Kids, have patience

At the pace you're racing

Your brain will never catch up

Will you waste it in your basement?)

You learn that life aint always fair, even if nothing else

You're friends are there most every day, for every bit that helps

Let's say you drop out, what is there to gain from such?

Are you a gamer or a rapper, the victim or the captor?

Is your career you pursue as volatile as a reactor?

I'm talking other options and you should proceed with caution

We don't think realistically when we think of our first options

 

Chorus:

Someone young can get it done

Maybe it could be you

But there's a road for us all to walk

A system that's been proved

To be ineffective, as we are all reminded

How much we all hated it

Once we look behind it

I can't think of something better,

And I'm sad you have to wait

For a real education

Once you one day graduate