Go to school. Build your future, my son./ That's what they told me once, when I was/ thirteen, nineteen, twenty. Now I/ don't get, don't get any./ Temp work blue is what it got for me./ Call in our ronin secretary./ Oh what jolly capers with my/ forty-thousand-dollar piece of paper.
[fourty thousand dollar piece of paper.]

I don't know but I've been told [I don't know but I've been told]/ there's self-sufficiency, when I get old. [there's self-sufficiency, when I get old.]/ That I could make the changes I hold dear, [That I could make the changes I hold dear,]/ If I could find a way [If I could find a way]/ away from here. [away from here.]

I've read that we suffer entitlement./ Baby boomers controlling and/ taking our rent./ Where is the beautiful life that I was/ promised?/ They say we'll be fine if we suck it up./ Shit's been sucking so much that we're/ all fed up./ They tell us we're trying to find ourselves/ but when we show them our resume they find someone else [show them our resume they find someone else.], because

Community college dropout/ Name's Beef Thompson, I'm no boy scout/ You just go for moms and dads/ All the college life I've needed I got it all from Undergrads/ Taking classes you don't need/ In your tiny little dorm rooms smoking weed/ And pretending that you're deep when you ain't/ Creative writing major? Yo, that's so quaint/ Stressed out cause you're in debt/ For a tiny piece of paper that you won't get/ Unless you're willing to jump through all their hoops/ Yo I've prepared your last meal and here's your noose/ Not here only to scare ya/ I'm trying to prepare ya/ Because the four-year degree is the biggest lie in America.

If I could suture a future to the past,/ if I could break the system from its grasp,/ I wouldn't have to rely on rock and roll/ to be the one commanding full/ control.

Yo I'm way bright and you know I was raised right/ But no books is open when I'm pulling an all night/ I'd rather get my masters is causing people laughter/ Cause it's so much more rewarding then just working on my grammar/ Never been cool and I'm far from a fool/ But you'll never hear me whine "I wish I went to a private school"/ Want a good job, well that's just fine/ I'mma work this stage and work this rhyme/ And remind myself that I'm an individual/ School is just a ritual in makin people miserable/ Got your BS in CS? Great!/ What's it like being another sheep scratching at the gate?/ Just remind yourself you'll have fun when your done/ When you're just another drone - one zero zero one/ Wish ya good luck, frankly your gonna need it/ You may think I'm getting cheated but I'll never be defeated/ No!