Teachers Were Wrong, I Can Learn

1. I sat in the back of the class
2. Teachers acted as if I didn’t exist
3. Truth be told, they gave on up on me
4. Miss Williams said you will never learn
5. And I didn’t, not there anyway
1. From class to class, I’d drag my feet
2. ’Cause my teachers gave up on me
3. If only once, had a teacher said
4. You can learn if you try
5. I will help you if you do
6. They all said, you will never learn
7. And I didn’t, not there anyway
1. I was twelve, too young to be told
2. You’re too dumb to learn anything
3. Miss Woods, down the hall,
4. Said I can’t learn at all
5. And I didn’t, not there anyway
1. Wasn’t long, I didn’t go to school at all
2. The streets became my classroom, then
3. My teachers here taught me well
4. Teachers were wrong, I could learn
1. It was here I began to see
2. Lessons of life can’t be taught in a school
3. I caught on quick, without any books
4. Teachers were wrong, I could learn
1. At first, they were kind and treated me well
2. What I do now is strange to me
3. Now, if I don’t do my lessons well
4. No one here gives up on me
5. They beat me up till I learn
1. Life is very hard on the streets
2. I think back and wish you had
3. Not told the class I was bad
1. Why didn’t you reach out to me
2. If you had, don’t you see,
3. I’d be in a class, using a pencil
4. Instead of here, using this needle

By Billy IAmWhoIAm