elementary school

[Verse 1]

You explode quietly

You keep bad habits for years

You retain it like long division

The things that they told you to revise

You learn quiet

You learn to please

You're best friends with the teacher

She looks at you with unease

[Verse 2]

You take notes all the time

A change in tone

And worry they're taking notes too

Reading you like a palindrome

Not sure quite what you did at six years old

To be told you're too much

You were learning the world

You were learning yourself

You were learning what you could hold

You still hold too much

Old habits die hard