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Choice

You can choose your shoes, you can choose your clothes

You can choose a mullet or let your hair hang low

You can choose to search for shells on the shore

If you don’t find what you want you can search for more

You can choose your spouse, you can choose your team

You can choose the house for your American dream

You can choose your sport, you can choose your band

You can choose rock n roll if you don’t like Dixieland

But you cannot choose your school

You can choose to hang with the girls or the boys

You can even choose your drug of choice

You can choose to walk a ledge thirty-feet high

While listening to Jimi Hendrix blow your freaking mind

You can choose to curse the guy who cut you off

If he gives you any lip you can choose to flip him off

You can choose to pee in a corner if you have the need

You can choose your state if you want to smoke weed

But you cannot, you shall not, choose your school

You can choose to live with the dogs and the fleas

You can choose to save the whales and the trees

You can choose to abort your baby at any time

You can choose to commit a heinous crime

You can choose steady work over the welfare heap

You can choose to tell your boss to take a flying leap

You can choose to cheat on Ole Uncle Sam

And burn the American flag in front of a German mini van

But you cannot, you shall not, you will not, choose your school

You can choose to ride a faerie tale

Into the mouth of a cardboard whale

You can choose to climb the highest star

Then dive into a milky way jar

You can choose to go to Disneyland

Or choose to go with the beach and the sand

You can choose to care for our beautiful land

Or you can choose to never ever give a damn

But you cannot, you shall not, will not, you must not choose your school

And if your school fails your kids the most

And leaves your kids stupid as a post

Obey you must, their tortured school district lines

Drawn by politicians who have not your childe in mind

For you cannot, you shall not, will not, you must not, and you never will, choose your school

There is one way to change the paradigm

And save your children from being left behind

Sell your possessions and pull up your roots

And leave the neighbors that are precious to you

Head for the ‘burbs whether you buy or you rent

Fork over to the realtors your seven per cent

Loot the tax dollars from your old school

And pay your indulgence to the ‘burbs new mega-school

But for those parents who can’t afford to move

Their kids may never hope to improve

For they will never have a reason to rejoice

For they will never have a choice