Tonalidad: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Am
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We're 13 minutes to eat,
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the teachers flood the room
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The place that Betsy nicknamed
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the Optimism Tomb
Dm
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It's not that I hate kids,
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I just need to let it out
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Get the worries off my chest,
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express my anger and my doubts
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Bb
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So I open up the fridge, grab my food,
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shelve my humor
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scarf some chips, go up a soda,
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and start a brand new rumor.
Am
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And when I finish with my story,
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someone else starts going off
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about the kids who are too hardened
Em
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and the kids who are too soft.
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I do lose my perspective
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looking through that darkened glass
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till that's all that I can see
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when I look out at my class.
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I forget there's more to kids
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Am
than what we toss around, around.
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Complaining over lunch
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G
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in the teacher's lounge
Each day I listen to the lore
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of all the brats who
won't stop running
Em
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How one teacher had a hummer,
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Bb
that's a kid who won't stop humming
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Am
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About the boy who rubbed two pencils
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Em
till he made some pa per burn
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How it's folk to show up tardy
Em
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and the kids talk out of turn
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Bb
One kid was 32 days true
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Abm
and counselors visited the home
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Farm was waiting at the door,
Em
G
Em
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fully nude, clearly stoned
Cm
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Yeah, and after one good
round of stories,
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someone else starts going off
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About the cell phones
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and the headlights
and a master key that's lost
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I do lose my perspective
Dm
C
looking through that darkened glass
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Dm
Till that's all that I can see
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When I look out at my class
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and then I realize it's time to quit
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Am
Turn this trend around,
turn this trend around
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Complaining over lunch,
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G
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in the teacher's lounge
Hey, with all the courage I
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Em
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I asked the crew to stop complaining
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An d to my surprise they were
sick and tired
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of the whining, griping, blaming
Bb
C
F
So we all made a new pact
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Em
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to make an attitude correction
Em
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Tell successors every day
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how kids learn from our direction
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Bb
And we've noticed our new passion
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is contagiously infective
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Some students comment
we're less crabby
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and a lot more interesting.
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Hey, hey, and when I finish
with my story,
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someone else will carry on
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about the kids who keep on trying,
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even when they get it wrong.
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We notice kids who bring a pencil,
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ask good questions, use a pass.
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Even kids who give us hope
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when we look at our class.
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There's so much more to kids
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Am
than what we used to toss around,
toss around.
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Now we celebrate right here
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G
C
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in the Teacher's Lounge
Bb
A
Yeah, cause we've
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learned to celebrate
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In the Teacher's Lounge
Right here, that's the place
Make it a good one
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Whoa, time to go you
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