John River - The Backup Plan [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Skit]
Kennedy please make sure you load up that dishwasher and get it done before you head upstairs. Hey thanks for bringing them home man, before you leave we have to talk about back to school, like we talked about on the phone, we just want to finish high school. I don't talk about doing anything after high school but at least the basics

[Verse 1]
Hey mama
It's little Mathew calling
Getting kinda tired staying at [?]
I dropping out of school it ain't no more
Going miss my promise and maybe four more
I know it's scary don't get shook
I just don't understand my textbook
Like A equal 12 B equals 51 ?
What the fuck is this curriculum
Cause I don't understand it
They don't understand us
Don't want to look stupid so I don't put my hand up
Parent teacher interviews said that I'm distracted
Just like all those other black kids
Talking about this rap shit
And now I got a new sound
Want to drive by
Just don't want to let you down
Know you want to make my own provisions
Its my life, I gotta make my own decisions

[Hook]
Go to school, go to work, get a job
Have a wife, have a kid, get a dog
[?]
Graduate give a future [?]
Have some drinks at the bars and the pub
Play some golf, let your wife join a club
Even though I think my life might stop
Everybody said I did the right stuff
(I can't break away)


Say I don't know what I want to be
But you need to let me be me
So tell me what you wanna do
Cause there nothing that we can do

[Verse 2]
I've been looking, I've been looking
For the fun class
Mom thinks I'm a genius
Teacher thinks I'm a dumbass
She don't understand
I don't understand the dumb class
They should teach you when you see police nigga run fast
Teacher said there's two hundred nations with many different wars
And many different relations
If I'm different, he's different, she's different, you different
Why we all got the same damn education
If you dropped out of high school say hell yeah
Hell yeah
If you dropped out of college say hell yeah
Hell yeah
If you don't got a dollar about to make your ass holler
If you waiting for a loan and you know you never ever pay back student loans
Say hell yeah
Hell yeah

[Hook]