What If I Told You...
What if I told you
The things that you say,
The jokes that you tell,
The pranks that you play,
All those things really hurt me today.
That girl in the front,
The one with the money;
Her words for you
Are sweet like honey.
She’s your favorite,
She’s the best;
When in reality,
She’s worse than the rest.
Why don’t you notice,
Why don’t you care,
That all your bad students
Sit up there.
Sit in the front,
Put on a show
All for you, but
The rest of us know;
We can see through the act
We can see through the mask.
We know the right answer
Whenever you ask
Those people a question
Then lead to the answer
Trying to make
Those flunkies feel better.
I wish I could tell you
What they’re like out of class.
I wish you could see
What a PAIN IN THE ASS
Those jocks, those cheerleaders,
Those fuzzy lambs are,
When we’re in the hallways
When we’re in our cars.
I wish you could feel
What I feel each day.
I wish you could somehow
See the way they
Stab and they twist
They slash and they slice.
They cut down my image;
It isn’t real nice
How I start to feel better,
I start to feel good,
Then they pull out the rug,
My face hits the wood.
They silently laugh
As I walk past their locker.
But the teachers don’t see,
Oh gee! What a shocker!
You’re blind to their cruelty,
You look past the bully.
All you see is
Their family, their money
I’m sick of this ritual.
I’m sick of the fakers.
I am a giver, and
THEY are the takers.
THEY take the spotlight,
THEY take the credit.
But now I figure
I should just let it
All pass me by
‘Cause someday real soon,
As a matter of fact,
The first week of June,
I’m done here,
I’m gone!
I’m through with this place!
I will never again have
To look at that face
Staring and teasing me
every day,
Then turning to you
A whole different way.
What if I told you
This one little fact:
Your favorite student?
She’s just an act.
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