Do not give us your poor
Nor do we ask for your weak
We have no place for the humble
And will ridicule to toughen the meek
Your brightest minds we will renounce
Cast down, cast aside, and beat
Into the cookie cutter of education
And even if you get it, we will repeat
Stuck in a rut, in the same ditch
For seven chapters and counting
Just to make sure everyone understands
This concept we’re surmounting
Do you know that word? Of course not
We don’t cover that word till chapter ten
We wont get that far, so don’t worry
By graduation you’ll know enough to be men.
This system turns learning to mass production
Assembly line learning, all to produce
An army of mental mediocrity
That the politicians can easily seduce
The brightest are hammered into the mold
The same as the dumbest of the whole lot
The standards drop and they’re held back
It’s all a malicious soviet plot..
Or is it the Germans? Do you know the difference?
There is none? Good! You’ll go far I see.
A perfect drone, believing the lies
Of what they want you to think. That’s the key.
And as for the poor one who cant succeed
Who’s stretched to his limit to fit the task
Push him through, he’ll catch up later
Then wear his diploma like an intelligence mask
Give us your athletic, your brilliant
Give us your weak, and your fools
Your outcast, your broken, your fit
And we shall make of them, societies tools
Each one, a crafted cog in the machine
Society’s gears that spin round and around
On command, they do circles for nothing
In a dance to which their minds are bound
I tell you truly we started no flame
In the torch of knowledge that was given
When Prometheus stole, for man, the fire
And for his crime was cast from heaven
No we did not start the flame
For millennia it’s been burning
Passed from the old unto the young
For as long as the worlds been turning
But though we didn’t light the torch
This generation will still repent
By trying to extinguish the flame
To smother knowledge, is out intent.
(I appologize for the crappyness of this work. I like the idea of it, but i know i failed to communicate it with anything near skill or eloquence. )
