Don't Stay In School (Instrumental)

I wasn't taught how to get a job

but I can remember dissecting a frog

I wasn't taught how to pay tax

but I know loads about Shakespeare's classics

I was never taught how to vote

they devoted that time to defining isotopes

I wasn't taught how to look after my health

but mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

Never spent a lesson on current events

instead I studied The Old American West

I was never taught what laws there are.

I was never taught what laws there are.

Let me repeat - I was not taught the laws for the country I live in,

but I know how Henry the VIII killed his women.

Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived

glad that's in my head instead of financial advice

I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light

but I was never taught my human rights

Apparently there's 30, do you know them? I don't

Why the hell can't we both recite them by rote?!

I know igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks

Yet I don't know squat about trading stocks

Or how money works at all - where does it come from?

How does the thing that motivates the world function?

not taught how to budget and disburse my earnings

I was too busy rehearsing cursive.

Didn't learn how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit is

but I spent days on what the quadratic equation is

negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared

minus 4ac over 2a

That's insane, that's absolutely insane.

They made me learn that over basic first aid

How to recognise the most deadly Mental disorders // or

diseases with preventable causes // How to buy a

house with a mortgage // if I could afford it

'cause abstract maths was deemed more important

than advice that would literally save thousands of lives

but it's cool, 'cause now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths caused by that choice was prime.

Never taught present day practical medicines,

but I was told what the ancient hippocratic method is