Alternative Cool

Song: Alternative Cool

Album: Fast Times At Trillmont High

Artist: Toussaint Morrison

Written by Toussaint Morrison

Released June 18, 2013

ref: http://toussaintmorrison.bandcamp.com/track/alternative-cool

I can feel it beatin’ through the buttons on my t-shirt

Words are whilrin’ in my head, I try to catch’em but I’m beleaguered

By the laughter in the classroom, man the circles getting’ tighter

And they’re cheerin’ me to swing at’em, but I told’em I don’t fight

Because the last time, I got caught up in this mess,

I put a teacher on his back and got kicked outta prep

Good kid, mad school, underfunded public-everything

They put me in a room with my class already ahead of me

Student-teacher conflict to parent-teacher conference

I chalk it up to being from different sides of a long fence

And I only give’em the benefit of the doubt

Because they’re underpaid and their union-leaders are sellin’ out

Now this kid is testin’ me like an SAT

And if I don’t swing upon him, they’re goes street credibility

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Watch me get free

On a one-way ticket to alternative school

Fuck the faculty

Still sweatin’ my style, cos I’m alternative cool

Detention can’t hold me

It was never a wonder why,

When the school’s built to benefit a certain demographic… without the wings, I fly.

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The popular’s been popular since Zak was slammin’ lockers

The scholars are studying and fightin’ for top of the honors

The gossip is spinnin’ gossamers, the prom is always ominous

Everyone has a place and every event has a promise

Where am I? Sittin’ in the counselor’s office

Talkin’ about 2^nd chances, resolutions and problems

They wanna fix me, diagnose the history

Propagate not fittin’ in the program is a mystery

People like to use the word “alternative” a lot nowadays

Makes’em feel like they invented what it is and what it ain’t

On a pedestal to say what I can and what I can’t

Do within the walls of this school that I’m forced to walk through everyday

I didn’t ask for this, the prescription to the meds

The Emotional Behaviour Disorder you wanna fence

You want a better attitude of student? Pay your teacher’s more,

Or what the hell you teaching for?

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Don’t need to be an adult to understand what’s non right.

Cos most the kids getting’ held back are not white.

If I was givin’ you the grade, you’d a failed thrice

I learn less in school than I do outside.

My teacher’s cool, but the system is failing

The gap between the resource room and AP

I’m more than my test score, but it counts none

When they got you climbin’ up their mountain

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