A song about the failures of the education system...
lyrics
we’ve walked this road, over and over
and over time, it cracks with pressure
The teacher preaches, the preacher reaches
Into our pockets and then promises releases
Between the raindrops, and lonely faces
We come to realise we’re prescribed places
Looking for order, beneath the chaos
I dream of running, the noose tightens in her nightmares
it goes…on and on
hear no…evil
see no …evil
speak..evil
My Daddy’s trying, my neighbour’s drugging
My mother’s crying, keeps on birthing
Next generation, same old problems
Into the future with a system that is broken
The greatest weapon, of the oppressor
Is the mindset of the oppressed
Under achiever, is our assessment
you play the fool again, we take what we expect
it goes…on and on
hear no…evil
see no …evil
speak..evil
When I was thirteen, they said to grow up
But when I left school, nobody showed up
No graduation, no fancy picture
Just take a seat between the wasters and the drifters
Life brings its lessons, she’s skipping class now
Her best friend questions, her shrinking mass, how,
The baggy school clothes, hide neurosis
Her arms collect scars as she squeezes through the process
The teacher’s screaming, the class room freezes
Straight from head’s office into police cells
The greatest weapon of the oppressor
is the mindset of the oppressed
An intimate (and instrumental) improvised solo guitar meditation on the vastness of the unknown, from the Appalachian mountains. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 23, 2021
