We got a place and we safe but I can't take this serious no more, thanks
We got a place and we safe but I can't take y'all serious
Yo I don't think this place holds the answers
No, no
The real world is hard and faster
And cold
I cannot pretend to sit here and buy this shit
Goodbye, this shit is over
So they call me a dropout
And they worry about where I'mma go
But I'm ready for a job now
Cause you can't live this life without no dough
Now if you don't hold yourself up, nobody will
Parents less money than me, to this day still
But that's okay, I'm cool to help a folk with a bill
And I've been this way since I was 11, for real
But mostly, I'm just not enthused
About this institutionalized thinking that tries to abuse
My creativity by making me choose between too fat, too thin
Oh yeah, call me bad again
Stick me in the office because I don't think this way
Keep me feeling caught, then the criminal mind will shape
But I saw the lines because my world did break
The innocence in my mind is over, I cannot stay
Yo I don't think this place holds the answers
No, no
The real world is hard and faster
And cold
I cannot pretend to sit here and buy this shit
Goodbye, this shit is over
So they call me a dropout
And they worry about where I'ma go
But I'm ready for a job now
Cause you can't live this life without no dough, no, no
Still wonder if I will be haunted by not having a degree
Even if I was a college was not accepting me
Cause I could not afford to pay the motherfuckin' tuition
And my intuition was telling me to just go get it
So I done got a job as a busboy at a fine dining restaurant
So I could get bucks and pay my way to fly to LA and see what's up
And then I started hittin' the library and reading
More than I ever did in that motherfuckin' school that I swear was nuts
But it gave me enough resentment to last at least till 30
And I know that I'm not pretending or inside I am not hurting
And I did try to submit to one more school with a dope theater program
But they said no because of the reputation
It was only a month with an agent
And I booked my first commercial
This shit felt amazing
And when I realized that our location
Was the gymnasium
Of that school that said no to me, that was my haven
Yo I don't think this place holds the answers
No, no
The real world is hard and faster
And cold
I cannot pretend to sit here and buy this shit
Goodbye, this shit is over
So they call me a dropout
And they worry about where I'mma go
But I'm ready for a job now
Cause you can't live this life without no dough
I cannot stay here
I will not stay here
I will not stay here
I gotta go
I will not stay here
I will not stay here
I will not stay
It's the end of the road
In other words, if you could wrestle more kids to the ground
And attempt to make them more cooperative to the rules
More of them would go to jail, not fewer of them
Because the jail is an indication of rebellion
And rebellion is as a result of perceived confinement
So if there is anything that the school might do
To make the ratio of people going to jail less
It should provide more freedom, more obvious freedom
Like come if you want to rather than you must come or you will be in trouble
Like come and learn this if it appeals to you
Not you will be in trouble if you don't
That's not working out for any of you on any level
Whether it is in the school or otherwise, you see
Acknowledge that they are free
And expect them to live happily ever after
And practice that in your grid so powerfully
That they get that every time they're around you
In other words, they can be in school
And need to be there at a certain time
And need to be in a certain place at the school at a certain time
And they can still feel your overwhelming feeling of their freedom
Because they're free to think
They're free to feel
They're free to offer a vibration
They're free to withhold
They're free to involve themselves
They're free not to
In other words, freedom is abounding all over the place
And as you acknowledge
You see, it isn't your action
That is making the difference in your lives anyway
It's the way you are feeling
And so if you are a parent with kids in school
Or if you are a teacher involved in the system
If you will give your dominant intention
To acknowledging the parts of them that are free
Convince them that they can be in any environment
It doesn't matter what it is
Even in jail, which is close to being in school
credits
from SECONDARY SCHOOL,
released September 7, 2023
Beat Produced by Julian Fatsound
Written, Arranged, Recorded, Mixed and Performed by Ellevan
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