SAT, GPA, ACT,

Make that school notice me.

Applications and deadlines left and right,

The kind of oppression we're taught not to fight.

There isn't anything fair in this game we're forced to play

When the only chance we have to win is playing their way.

They tell us they want us to succeed, but they're setting us up to fail;

Then they call us incompetent weak-minded or lazy when we're forced to bail.

We lose who we are while they tell us what we should

Be-Cuz we were pushed down everytime we, out of line, stood.

They preach "be an individual" but the system's looking for another clone,

And we aim for that, as it's all we've ever known.

We're taught that grades are the basis of our worth, the defining factor of what we can do,

Because those good grades mean acceptance to a good school

And that $120,000 degree will mean being a success

Despite the residual financial mess.

It is in the disapproval of those around or the way we shamefully look to the ground

When we say we no longer wish, to school, to be bound

That college is now a societal requirement

Even if that means that the best years of our lives are, within the confines of numbers, spent.