Out on a limb, teacher in the classroom
Concentrates on day to day survival
If you can't win, use some discipline
When your system is your rival
To teach the facts is 'criminal'
To teach something useful is worse if
What you see as learning
They see as subversive
One bookcase, one desk
A hundred little minds to service
Always on call, always well dressed
The expectations make you nervous
You curse the things you can't give
The time you can't afford
Get's you like the sound of fingernails
Scraping on the blackboard
Teacher's on trial, the kids are doing time
School is like a prison, and that's the real crime
That's the real crime, that's the real crime
That's the real crime, that's the real crime
That's the real crime, that's the real…
One government issue red pencil
One little graph to plot their lives on
This one pass, this one fail
This one go straight to gaol
Do not pass Go, do not collect any
Real knowledge
Here take this little number
Find yourself a middle-class college
Teacher's on trial, the kids are doing time
It's a vicious circle, and that's the real crime
That's the real crime, that's the real crime
So don't you be confused, and don't you be denied
'Cause it's politically effective
To keep us forty years behind the times
That's the real crime, that's the real crime…crime
That's the real crime, that's the real crime
That's the real crime… That's the real crime
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