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I hated school so fucking much. I am an auditory learning, among other things, which made it very hard for me to participate and keep pace. That and the fact that my parents moved around a bit due to financial woes, and I ended up in a new high school most the way through my junior year. I had one friend, a fellow new comer, who eventually stopped coming. When I realized he wasn't coming back, I got very uncomfortable being by myself during lunch and breaks. I would shortly thereafter ditch class at lunch to avoid the embarrassment. By the time I made new friends and he returned, I was already on a pretty self destructive path and hate school all the more for it. I promised myself that if I should have a child and they should want to leave school or anything else I had set in motion for them, that I would allow them to do so.

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I'd always hated school
I had better shit to do
teachers, students, and their rules
the feelings became mutual
when examining the clues
I noticed something unusual
I was being groomed for
a god damned a cubicle
or to do the inexcusable
it's funny how life maneuvers you
to do what you're supposed to
if you honor the proposal
and maintain your composure
the path unfolds before ya
and the game hands over
your very own controller
Prussian school reformers
sought a world of conformists
predictable little products
controllable and homogenous
the utopia of monsters
slave bank trade alma maters
discontent with the harvest
they became people farmers
they should be embarrassed
we've seen the stick and the carrot
they're so sickly and arrogant
these colonists called americans
control the minds of children
not the bodies of billions
build the brain into a prison
trap obedient citizens

Anyone that to tell ya how to live your life
is showing they're too wrong to ever be right
there aint nothing to fear some day we all die
the limits are illusions we have been hypnotized

I said fuck it and bailed, never looking back again
knowing I'd prevail as a much better strategist
but trying to force people to do as you wish
its either mission abort or have a paradigm shift
chose the latter position and welcomed the eclipse
didn't yet comprehend what reeeal pain is
all the boats kept afloat by my loose lips
as the waves crashed up against this sinking ship
knew Poseidon came to claim what was his
so I walked my own plank all stupid self righteous
when my feet got wet the sky cracked with lightning
zues took a breath, and the gods kept fighting
don't know what I'm doing but I'm sure its the right thing
drawing lines in the sand and though they might be
revised at any time, shit is lookin unlikely
I try to do right but, hope my son's nothin- like me
sounds kinda cold but there's shit you cant unsee
certain scars rarely heal in damaged psyches
certain curses take you down to the depths of the sea
so when he asks should he sail away I'll say certainly

Anyone that to tell ya how to live your life
is showing they're too wrong to ever be right
there aint nothing to fear some day we all die
the limits are illusions we have been hypnotized

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from The Coming of Age Ritual, released November 13, 2016
Trent - keys, production
Chris - sampled drums, production
James - acoustic drums

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