Mega Ran, Elle Winston - Revisions lyrics

No Child Left Behind means
More teachers booted
Another great idea poorly executed
They wonder why I bounced and
Decided to make music
Empty promises came but I knew not
To hold them to it
Wonder why the 100th day's a holiday?
Cause up to that day the
State has still gotta pay
And after that day problem kids are expelled
The first step to jail
Your system has failed
Don't get me started on the cultural bias
Selling lies to the students
Teachers hoping you buy it

Can't tell em that the principal
You love so much
Could give a damn if you succeed
Long as funds go up
And now the best teachers
Want to be administrators
Hard to fight the power when you
Don't know what's for dinner later
Charter schools bring in kids
On the 3rd strike
With more mileage than the turnpike
But everyone can learn, right?

You lied rewrite my story you tried
And I'm crawling in the dark
Cause the truth I can't find
I wish I may I wish i wish I might
But, I'm tired of your lies

They say that those who can't
Do will teach it and you can't teach it if
You don't believe it
And if you don't love it
Then you should leave it and finally
You can't stay if you can't keep a secret
Hrad to excavate to find the
Facts on the diaspora
They'll have you denying Egypt's
Even in Africa literal rewrite of history
They printing lies and if you criticize
That's when you're ostracized
Diluted and mythologized
White washed and homogenized
I feel like i should apologize
Cause, I was part of it although
I hated all of it
Plausible deniability's what they calling it
History is written by the victors
And you gotta break the frame sometimes
To get the bigger picture
They confuse correctness with
Political correctness
Subconsciously these methods will
Belittle your perspective
You go through life believing

That you're subordinate
Twisting facts like contortionists
And this is the argument
Tell the legislators we need a new ordinance
The numbers are important
Their terribly disproportionate
Columbus' journey still in my text, huh?
We know it's a farce
No hurry to make corrections
We gotta raise these kids right, protect them
Get it right the first time
We might not get a next one

You lied rewrite my story you tried
And I'm crawling in the dark
Cause the truth I can't find
I wish I may I wish i wish I might
But, I'm tired of your lies