Themselves - Eating Homework lyrics

Wearing the beautiful silver ring
My mother gave me
Suddenly a biteas my fishing rod
Fell to the floor
Along with the label less empty
Can of some processed vegetable
That had propped it up

Our holy father is probably closer to
The horseshoe crab than sayjupiter
Or so I've beeni can't
Believe what I've been
Taught to take note of as precious
From the Pledge of Allegiance on down
To the correct spelling of success
I don't dream in cursive
Or standardized rigamaroling utility
Powerful being scoffs at dog ears and near
Truths smeared between index
And appendixbut heck
I'm smart now and at least


The lunches were hot

George Washington, Woodrow Wilson
Baton Rouge, louisiana
Texas the Longhorn State
Refraction of light in
The earth's atmosphere
Triceratops, a-e-i-o-u and sometimes
There's no such thing as a dumb question
"Out damn spot", pemdas
Cosine of a 90 degree angle is Zero
"Et tu brute"
Whales and dolphins are people too
The Civil War was something to be proud of
Subject, prepositional phrase, predicate
And size order was onlythe beginning

So I wonder, has my doodling suffered
Who misses covering their textbooks
Authority figures folded hands silence
Brainwashing is educational
We, the schoolboard and the church and state
Acting on behalf of our sponsors
Are here to protect youall of you
From drugs and the slightest
Knowledge of sole purpose
I never had a problem with cheating
Upon receipt of your son
And daughter's scores
You may find him or her to be more than
Apt above average in kind
Ofwell the following i want my unicorn back
And that last wish for an
Infinite amount of wishes
The damned, the difficult
And the testable material
That's funnyyours says good job too
I'm so bad with the names Of Mice and Men
Huh huhhe's so creativebut he's no xl-57
These completely complacent
Self-sufficient offspring
Can be confined and reconfigured to appear
As any of the three sexes and
Have a complete record of
Every single thing there ever is and will be

Fist fightsthe twisted torture
Of social acclimation
Bells clang to segment the
Fun-filled artificial day further
As several hundred Galapagan sea turtles line
Up to enter the building
If you give them all different names
And teach them all the same
Thingthe earth turns into toffee
And you can find out how good people really
Really are static and coldmy formative years
Were spent projecting myself
Outside that window
From chair with a desk bolted to it
Bolted to it the sacrificial
Billy goat accepted
What had been pounded through it
And the next person who encourages me
Not to write in the first
Person gets left back

In case of fire
Quietly and in an orderly fashion
Form a single file line in
The front of the class
And wait for your instructor, facing the door
Continue towards the north stairwell
Then proceed calmly and quickly
Towards the nearest exit
Leave your bags and coats
Behind kindlythank you

You can't tell me I'm not good at math
Poor writer my
I've got 25 jumping jacks left and
Two big circles to run in
Don't want to be late for attentive
Head nodding and tie tying class
Present in six months
I'll be a college graduate
And then I'm gonna bemr, dr, police, fire
Space man ballerina, zookeeper, cowboy
President of the united states
What are you gonna be
Infected affected dyslexic skeptic
Disconnected just what
They we are you expected
Memorize thati before E, except after C

Wearing the beautiful silver ring
My mother gave me i see an assembly of
These hideous curriculum monsters
Sharpening coccyx bones on a
Splintering rickety loom
All in a light grey auditorium through a
Knot in a boarded up window
That was painted shut by Satan
And his vice principals