10000 Maniacs National Education Week Lyrics

National Education Week Lyrics

[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: Dennis Drew ]

honor salute and speak 
to the corner standing flag 
do you remember how the days of school were 
indivisible separate worlds 
compare contrast 
these dreams absurd 
placid classroom faces 
breathe in the features 
of a demographics death map trilogy 
children read them well 
not to bury 3 of 4 sons 
as the likes of chivalry 
not to take 6 of 30 bills 
to manufacture corpus christi 
and so you think it can be so serene 
history`s most intolerable famine 
has clutched our global tranquility 
reaped the lives of children 
maladies collaborate 
with cyclic despair 
infanticide clamors to 20 times more 
in 4th and 5th Worlds 
the poor have always been 
beside us 
amid us 
death has always been 
as million cease 15 million that`s an annual reap 
add divide multiply sum 41 thousand!