Dont Stay In School

Am  G  F  C


[Verse 1]
  Am
I wasn't taught how to get a job
    G
But I can remember dissecting a frog
  F
I wasn't taught how to pay tax
C
 But I know loads about 
Shakespeare's classics
Am
I was never taught how to vote
             G
They devoted that time to defining 
isotopes
         F
I wasn't taught how to look after my
 health
         C
But mitochondria is the powerhouse 
of the cell


[Verse 2]
Am
Never spent a lesson on current 
events
  G
Instead I studied The Old American 
West
F
I was never taught what laws there 
are
C
I was never taught what laws there 
are
         Am                        
Let me repeat—I was not taught the 
                       G
laws for the country I live in

But I know how Henry the VIII killed
 his women
  F
Divorced beheaded died, divorced 
beheaded survived
F
Glad that's in my head instead of 
financial advice


[Verse 3]
Am
I was shown the wavelengths of 
different hues of light
    G
But I was never taught my human 
rights
  F
Apparently there's thirty, do you 
know them? I don't
        C
Why the hell can't we both recite 
them by rote?
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       Am
I know igneous, metamorphic and 
sedimentary rocks
      G
Yet I don't know squat about trading
 stocks
       F
Or how money works at all—where does
 it come from?
C
How does the thing that motivates 
the world function?
Am
  Not taught to budget and disperse 
my earnings
G
I was too busy there rehearsing 
cursive
       F                         
Didn't learn how much it costs to 
                                  C
raise a kid or what an affidavit is

But I spent days on what the 
quadratic equation is:
Am                                
Negative b plus or minus the 
         G
square root of b squared

Minus 4ac over 2a
         F
That's insane, that's absolutely 
insane
     C
They made me learn that over basic 
first aid


[Verse 4]
   Am
Or how to recognize​ the most deadly
 mental disorders
     G
Or diseases with preventable causes
                F
Or how to buy a house with a 
mortgage
                            C
If I could afford it 'cause abstract
 maths was deemed more important
       Am                       
Than advice that would literally 
                   G
save thousands of lives
                      F          
But it's cool, 'cause now I could 
tell you if the number of 
                    C
unnecessary deaths caused by that 
choice was prime
      Am
Never taught present-day practical 
medicines
          G
But I was told what the ancient 
Hippocratic method is
 F
“I've got a headache, the pain is 
ceaseless
              C
What should I take?”

Um... maybe try some leeches?
       Am
“Could we discuss domestic abuse and
 get the facts
   G
Or how to help my depressed friend 
with their mental state?”
F
Um... no, but learn mental maths
             C
Because “you won't have a calculator
 with you every day!”
     Am
They say it's not the kids, the 
parents are the problem
     G
Then if you taught the kids to 
parent that's the problem solved 
then!
F
 All this advice about using a 
condom
    C
But none for when you actually have 
a kid when you want one
    Am
I'm only fluent in this language, 
for serious?
    G
The rest of the world speaks two, do
 you think I'm an idiot?
 F
They chose the solar over the 
political system
          C
So like a typical citizen now I 
don't know what I'm voting on
Am
  Which policies exist, or how to 
make them change
     G
Mais oui, je parle un peu de 
Francais
      F
So at 18, I was expected to elect a 
representative
      C
For a system I had never ever ever 
been presented with


[Chorus]
Am
  But I won't take it
          G
I'll tell everyone my childhood was 
wasted
              F
I'll share it everywhere how I was 
“educated”
      C                          
And insist these pointless things 
               Am
don't stay in school


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