Alright class, we're gonna get started. Everyone, please don't take your seats, Close your textbook, Stand up, and dance to this song What do you think of when I use the word School? You might shrug your shoulders and be like, 'S cool – It's a needful but imperfect institutional tool To make the people on the planet not be absolute fools Or you might have the view that it's only half true What they teach, and that in truth it's a tool that uses you – Subject to abuse, and the subjects you take Are designed to make your mind subjects of the state ...Some say it's great tho — A-OK – And the best way to go is to go and get A's – But whether you B for it or don't C it as best Society D-mands that you go or you're F'd When we were kids We would sing this hook 'No more pencils No more books' When they made us go to school And yet in the days when the tradition began Way before the institutions and the social demand The Ancient Greek "schole" from which "school" is rendered Did not mean work you had to do, it meant LEISURE Leisure? — Yessir — Free Time? — yes! — If you had food to eat, and other needs didn't press You might read or write, if you liked — free of stress – So yes — in a sense, School meant Recess You might spend your time with a Socrates And talk thoughtfully about God and Being And contemplate concepts of cosmic things Without and obligation or college fees And speaking of ironic etymologies 'Education' from the Latin educare means To lead out from, not to sit inside — And 'study' meant passion for a task — yeah, right Now you might ask why, like — Bruh, what da fuh...? How'd it all become the opposite of what it was? School meant Days Off; study meant fun Why's it upside down? I'm confounded. It's dumb Welcome to the club. Are you really surprised? Humans have a tendency to systematize – And the systems are fine, until the systems are blind To the very human beings for whom the system's designed It's a means to an end. And in the end that means That whoever's at the head gets to set the meanings And assign the readings, and to set the times And to regulate the rhythm of our lives and minds But way before pencils and way before books And way before the tests that everybody took There was Old School School. (Word) Alright let's go ahead and walk outside now Put our hands in the soil. ... Don't forget your improvised song is due... At any time It ain't about your interests, kid – It's how ya get 'er done Better aggregate your passions into learning outcomes Don't be burnin' out, son! Reevaluate your goals Gotta crack another statue from the economic mold Got you docile till you're old – 'They don't want us to know!' But the thing about 'Them' is The 'They' is Us, bro – Life is short, learning's slow – Why go back to the source When you could simply get it second hand? A requisite course And yes, you're being forced – And while at times it may be free So is all your social media – It's not that hard to see That that's another way of saying the commodity's me And the product is becoming what they want me to be You're so lucky – Old school study – So what are we to take from it And what disintegrate? How to disentangle the age-old angle Of obligation in the way When we educate – How to make it relate so it ain't Disembodied and a Knowledge but in name Without making that very same knowledge All but impossible to gain? (Dang) Make it a GAME — make Work Play – Never have to go to, and yet learn everyday – Make it into songs, teach lessons over beats And not just on the internet but also on the streets Education is an art And performance is a part Of its method and its manner 'Cause the head needs the heart – Hip-hop History SchoolHouse Rock Indigenous traditions – Times change. TikTok Here's a thought — Honor teachers in the game that go the hardest 'Cause in the end the teacher is the same as the artist – Let em play their part as pop-stars, getting famous Being bona fide philoso-rapper viral sensations ...I'm biased. ... Should I even talk? I'm a product of the system, a philosophy doc – And my knowledge, on which I base this critical thought Is predicated on the privilege of having been taught – I've thought of that a lot. ...If we lost what we've got Is it tantamount to tossing out the board with the chalk? But it may be worth a shot: and here's the reason why Like nails on a chalkboard, we're just squeaking by Education is the basis of society's design – The system that instills what's in everybody's mind And under this system, the society we find's Economically unequal, ecologically awry So redefine School: Not a tool of the state But a movement that arises from those who create – Whose mode of exchange isn't monetary wealth But Relationship and Wisdom. An end in itself No more tests No more rules No more half-truths Back to the roots – Back to Old School Schools You're so lucky – Old school study No more hassles (Old school study) No wack books No more teacher's dirty looks No more bureaucratic crooks (Old school study) And school boards with too many crooks No more standards (Old school study) No more rules No more half truths Back to the roots No more half truths (Old school study) Back to the roots Back to the roots Old school school Alright well, that's it for me today ... But we'll meet again for our next session ... Whenever we meet again. ... And until then... Study!

Don't believe everything happiness says Nothing feels better than hiding these days We bury our fears in the drinks, in these tears For the days we believed we could fly Call up your brothers and sisters and friends We'll go back to the place where the night never ends We'll remember the fires, the burning car tires Boy, how in the hell did we get here? So why don't you meet me down behind the old school? We'll waste away the weekend with perfect regard For how cavalier we used to be that beautiful insanity The apathy's surrounding me Don't close your eyes or we'll fade away Over and over and over again We sat down for a minute, grew up into men Now we're putting out fires and changing car tires Man, how in the hell did we get here? So why don't you meet me down behind the old school? We'll waste away the weekend with perfect regard For how cavalier we used to be that beautiful insanity The apathy's surrounding me Don't close your eyes or we'll fade away this time And we'll never get back what we gave away When we still have that fire in our eyes Don't believe everything happiness says Nothings as real as our old reckless ways When we drink by the fires, the burning car tires Bad girls and good liars, the dreams we'd conspire The days we went crazy, the nights wild and hazy Man, how in the hell did we get here? So why don't you meet me down behind the old school? We'll waste away the weekend with perfect regard For how cavalier we used to be that beautiful insanity The apathy's surrounding me Don't close your eyes or we'll fade Why don't you meet me down behind the old school? We'll waste away the weekend with perfect regard For how cavalier we used to be that beautiful insanity The apathy's surrounding me Don't close your eyes or we'll fade

Stars alight, August night And you and I are set in motion Every fear disappears Like a tear into an ocean Say my name just the same Like a flame slowly burning Fill my eyes with the sight Of all that lies beyond the yearning Baby there is nothing but surrender left in me All at once our worlds collided I ain't strong enough to hide I've fallen, darling I long to take each breath beside you Burn down all the nights before you Slipped your hand in mine and swore to reveal it The secret that lets me be the one inside you If there exists a deeper bliss Plant a kiss that wakes the morning Reach for me, sweet as sin You took me in against the warnings So I will love you everyday until my days are done All at once our worlds collided I ain't strong enough to hide I've fallen, darling, I long to take each breath beside you Burn down all the nights before you Slipped your hand in mine and swore to reveal it The secret that lets me be the one inside you I will love you everyday until my days are done All at once our worlds collided I ain't strong enough to hide I've fallen, darling, I long to take each breath beside you Burn down all the nights before you Slipped your hand in mine and swore to reveal it The secret that lets me be the one inside you The one inside you The one inside you

Look into my eyes and tell me now How you feel that time is running out And how you want to run me into the sun That is what life is all about I can fantasize of one more night Realize that every moments right Put our hands upon anything you want There is only common sense to fight I am dying to go to every ____ with you Baby save the world and we can just be gone What are we waiting for? One second more is one second too long We can disappear right into yesterday Vanish in the air, baby I don't care Long as we make our getaway. Fingers running up and down my back Setting me on fire just like that I've seen it in my mind a hundred thousand times And now here we are at last I want to touch you like I've never touched you I want to love you like you've never been loved before And give you so much more Can't think of nothing else but you all to myself Save the world and we can just be gone What are we waiting for? One second more is one second too long We can disappear right into yesterday Vanish in the air, baby I don't care Long as we make our getaway. Just save the world and we can just be gone What are we waiting for? One second more is one second too long We can disappear right into yesterday Vanish in the air, baby I don't care Long as we make our getaway.

Who would believe This time last year We'd be finding Ourselves like we're Staring down the barrel of the end of the earth In a nightmare we can't leave But there's still you and me I'm gonna hold you like it's Christmas morning And kiss you like it's New Year's Eve You know you're everything I ever wanted The one thing I believe And when the world is set on fire You tell me it'll be okay Somehow you make these days Feel like a holiday Watching people going crazy Makes me keep you closer lately And even if December never happens again I wouldn't change a single thing 'Cause we've still got you and me I'm gonna hold you like it's Christmas morning And kiss you like it's New Year's Eve You know you're everything I ever wanted The one thing I believe And when the world is set on fire You tell me it'll be okay Somehow you make these days Feel like a holiday Feel like a holiday Somehow you make these days Feel like a holiday I'm gonna hold you like it's Christmas morning And kiss you like it's New Year's Eve You know you're everything I ever wanted The one thing I believe And when the world is set on fire You tell me it'll be okay Somehow you make these days Feel like a holiday Feel like a holiday Somehow you make these days Feel like a holiday

The world is ours, whatever we want it to be Pour it down all over me I'm lost, I'm found, I hold you like a mystery I'll meet you where no one else can see It's like my heartbeat's poundin' right out of my chest Yeah, like my heartbeat's got me all out of breath And baby, this right here's about as good as it gets Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh And this love And this love is And this love is Limitless You let go when I was holding on too tight You put the colorin' to black and white It's like my heartbeat's poundin' right out of my chest Yeah, like my heartbeat's got me all out of breath And baby, this right here's about as good as it gets Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh And this love And this love is And this love is Limitless Limitless Oh-oh, oh, oh Limitless The world is ours, whatever we want it to be Pour it down all over me