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Teach Me

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lyrics

Welcome to the empty classroom.
An empty mouth reads words from an empty page.
Got an hour? Grab a seat;
have yourself a nap.
Hey there, Mr. Talking Head,
I might even agree with some of what you said,
but no matter what it is
you're shoving down my throat,
the impulse is to gag.

I can't tell you what I'm doing here.
I can't even claim to care.
Will someone tell me it'll be over soon?
Will someone tell me why I'm here?
Because I don't know anything anymore.

Everything I'm hearing now,
I've heard a million times before.
It's starting not to matter.
I pay you to give me time to sleep, or to write this song
I hand you a line or two, and you hand me a letter.

I don't know why I bother showing up here every day,
because it’s clear that neither of us cares.
Every day I wonder how you got this job.
Every day l wonder why you're here.

Page alter page of nothing that means anything at all,
pages of angry lines, and any way that I can find
of filling all this useless time,
killing all this wasted time.

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from Jabberwocky, released July 5, 1995
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lyrics and vocals by Joe Rybicki

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whatever... Cleveland, Ohio

whatever... was a Cleveland band in the 1990s. We opened for lots of great acts (e.g., Jawbox, Bosstones, Samiam) and even had a following of our own. Really, if you went to a Cleveland punk show in the mid-'90s, chances are pretty good you saw us. This is the stuff we were playing early on.

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