high school kid Lyrics

It's way too early

To be feeling this way

It's eight in the morning

Still i'd kill to not be awake

My caffeinated hands shake

'Cause i stayed up too late

My parent's say all i can do

Is make music and mistakes

And that's the way it is

For a high school kid

We spend our days locked in

An academic prison

We got some good fucking friends

The curriculum's decent

But the moment that diploma's in my hand

You know you're never gonna see me again

The perfect example

Of when time goes slow

The minutes ticking to the measure

Of a metronome

I pass the time creating rhymes

Writing you songs in my notes

On plato's soul and all the

Properties of integrals

And we're aimlessly racing

Through the endless halls

I hear my best friend crying

In the bathroom stall

And that's the way it is

For a high school kid

We spend our days drowning in

Our teenage emotions

We got some good fucking friends

The curriculum's decent

But the moment that diploma's in my hand

You know you're never gonna see me again

They only ever seem to care about their gpa

I like to think i like to learn that is if i can stay awake

For long enough to try and speak and say something about the way

That hemingway over-punctuates in an attempt to celebrate

How life is useless and mundane so his writing should feel the same-

Hey we are hyper-active never-humble academic fools who don't know

What the hell they'll be when they grow up,

Why would we grow up when we could stay and do the same thing every day

Yes it's mundane but it is safe we'd rather that than graduate

And see there's scarier things in the real world than eleventh grade

And that's the way it is for a high school kid

Another day spent here in the mighty midwest

All we have is our friends

To put up with our bullshit

And the moment that diploma's in my hand

You know you're never gonna see me again.