Teachers Arguement Lyrics

Teachers Arguement lyrics

Artists are special celestial fools

 Blessed with a talent for breaking the rules

 Unfit for confinement in cubical schools

 Artists are special.

 

 Artists are people, not primitive fools

 They learn what to do before breaking the rules

 They know that the brain is the finest of tools

 Artists are people

 

 Whether in theatre or music

 or dance

 They have to be given the chance ...

 

 To fly by the seat of their pants!

 

 To develop their minds!

 

 to be nurtured like plants

 

 Artists are part of the same human race

 As everyone else in this same bloody place

 you learn to survive or you fall on your face

 Artist or not! Artist or not!

 

 I've seen them come and go for all these years

 Kids with no talent for anything more

 Than carrying spears

 Another year, another shipment

 Lacking the drive, or the style, or the basic equipment

 This one is different!

 

 And I can see me, then...unremarkable me

 The kid in the ballet class, the princess I wanted to be

 Tutu and point shoes, hair in a bun,

 Completely unnoticed, as if I were no one...

 This one is different, I tell you,

 This one can dance,

 This one is special, I tell you

 Give him a chance

 

 What did they tell me when I was a girl

 Learn!

 Day after day when I ws a girl

 Learn!

 

 The land of dreams waits over the meadow,

 If you can find your way out of the ghetto

 Learn! Learn!

 

 Put your faith in books

 That will protect you

 Put your faith in books

 And a mind of your own

 Neither charm nor looks

 Will make them respect you

 you must learn to stand, you must learn to stand alone!

 

 Picture a little girl in glasses and braids

 A little starched dress, at the end of the corridoor

 She's holding to the wall, waiting for the bell to ring

 Praying for the day to end

 Forcing herself to go back to her class again

 Hearing her mama's words "put your faith in books"

 This one is different

 Put your faith in books!

 This one can dance

 Put your faith in books

 

 Artists are special

 Artists are people

 

 This one must have a chance

 This one must have a chance