
Date of issue: 30.06.2007
Record label: Wnts
Song language: English
You Don't Learn That In School |
I wasn’t taught how to get a job |
But I can remember dissecting a frog |
I wasn’t taught how to pay tax |
But I know loads about Shakespeare’s classics |
I was never taught how to vote |
They devoted that time to defining isotopes |
I wasn’t taught how to look after my health |
But mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell |
Never spent a lesson on current events |
Instead I studied The Old American West |
I was never taught what laws there are |
I was never taught what laws there are |
Let me repeat—I was not taught the laws for the country I live in |
But I know how Henry the VIII killed his women |
Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived |
Glad that’s in my head instead of financial advice |
I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light |
But I was never taught my human rights |
Apparently there’s thirty, do you know them? |
I don’t |
Why the hell can’t we both recite them by rote? |
I know igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks |
Yet I don’t know squat about trading stocks |
Or how money works at all—where does it come from? |
How does the thing that motivates the world function? |
Not taught to budget and disperse my earnings |
I was too busy there rehearsing cursive |
Didn’t learn how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit is |
But I spent days on what the quadratic equation is: |
Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared |
Minus 4ac over 2a |
That’s insane, that’s absolutely insane |
They made me learn that over basic first aid |
Or how to recognize the most deadly mental disorders |
Or diseases with preventable causes |
Or how to buy a house with a mortgage |
If I could afford it 'cause abstract maths was deemed more important |
Than advice that would literally save thousands of lives |
But it’s cool, 'cause now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths |
caused by that choice was prime |
Never taught present-day practical medicines |
But I was told what the ancient Hippocratic method is |
«I've got a headache, the pain is ceaseless |
What should I take?» |
Um… maybe try some leeches? |
«Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the facts |
Or how to help my depressed friend with their mental state?» |
Um… no, but learn mental maths |
Because «you won’t have a calculator with you every day!» |
They say it’s not the kids, the parents are the problem |
Then if you taught the kids to parent that’s the problem solved then! |
All this advice about using a condom |
But none for when you actually have a kid when you want one |
I’m only fluent in this language, for serious? |
The rest of the world speaks two, do you think I’m an idiot? |
They chose the solar over the political system |
So like a typical citizen now I don’t know what I’m voting on |
Which policies exist, or how to make them change |
Mais oui, je parle un peu de Francais |
So at 18, I was expected to elect a representative |
For a system I had never ever ever been presented with |
But I won’t take it |
I’ll tell everyone my childhood was wasted |
I’ll share it everywhere how I was «educated» |
And insist these pointless things don’t stay in school |
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