Education, teachers are naked, students are fully clothed in paper Debt based we all owe the creator For life on Liberty Row, where the Red Wood pitchforks grow Where the fast lane education is slow Do you know? What you wanna be? Where you wanna go? And how important it is for you to know your learning curve goal We academic hybrids bro, private school enrolled It's publicly known we were schooled at home I hear you say, you wanna be free, but you can't be free Until you learn just how to be non-mechanic and random, see I use my thought to separate myself from cogs in the wheel They say the pen is mightier than the sword That's how I'm dodging the steal 'Cause, what they pass for education ain't real It's mind manipulation, they're clones sedated, they're drones, debate it Complicated without complication, counterfactual quantum communication, necessity is the mother if all creation They say there's only way A single path to a gate We're prisoners, they stand guard And if you stray you may starve Guess what, it's all been a lie The curtains down, look inside A rich man finds his own truth So seek your own point of view Hands chained in a war Left-brain prisoner Run You gotta run Hands chained in a war Left-brain prisoner Run You gotta run Paperback tablets, dry eraser boards calculate mathematics So attractive intellectual savage, performing arts metaphor mechanic, less than 1% of the planet It doesn't matter if my message is stranded I will be found next to my favorite noun, levitate above ground, meditating to my favorite sound Debating simple issues, teachers are artificial, there must be a more clinical approach to being ethically civil Is Hell on Earth a vacation for Devils? or education for Rebels? Will these polarized points of view ever settle? Is war normal? Is peace special, do we deserve extinction level? what does your guardian Angel tell you? The end is a new beginning cycle, participation is vital, one persons departure is another's arrival Collateral models, android smartphone survival standing at the chalkboard beside you They say there's only way A single path to a gate We're prisoners, they stand guard And if you stray you may starve Guess what, it's all been a lie The curtains down, look inside A rich man finds his own truth So seek your own point of view Hands chained in a war Left-brain prisoner Run You gotta run Hands chained in a war Left-brain prisoner Run You gotta run Common Core, either or, no promises y'all Common sense gone, academia is dead wrong One generation down the line is new shit Two generations down the line its bull shit Three generation down the we're stupid By fourth generation too lazy to do shit Education is endangered, you need brain maintenance To fly a 5th generation spaceship, education They say there's only way A single path to a gate And if you stray you Hands chained in a war Left-brain prisoner I'm not sure what I'm supposed to know anymore Run You gotta run The current model of learning takes too long Hands chained in a war Left-brain prisoner Download your education from the matrix Run You gotta run That way no time is wasted Make an educated guess you can make it Word of mouth information is sacred But it feels old school and antiquated The more I grow – the more I recognize that I don't know