(Track #8 from Home Town)
The Underrated One
By Frank Meyer
Verse 1
A sitter, a counselor, a
social worker
All for a teacher's pay
Friends of mine who have
real jobs
Ask me why I stay
But I don't have an
answer
Though I've searched for
years
I guess those memories,
and moments, and friendships
Are the things that keep
me here.
Chorus
And though the sun is
setting once again
The day will soon be
done
The lights go down, all the world's at rest
But not the underrated
one.
Verse 2
Struggling with
philosophies
About the way kids learn
Mostly what I struggle
with
Is which way I should
turn
Looking for an answer
Somewhere on a shelf
Knowing that the answer
Lies deep within myself
Achievement test scores
are falling
And everyone complains,
There's got to be a
reason.
Those teachers are to
blame."
Working with a few kids
So they can find their
way
I didn't know that it
was my job
To raise the USA
Chorus
Verse 3
Johnny's father left
today
And Johnny looks like
hell
How do I tell Johnny
He's got to learn to
spell
Tears roll down Mary's
cheeks
Her black eyes tell it
all
Ain't it funny how it seems
these days
More kids run into
walls.
There's drinkin' at the dance tonight
Some parents must be
called
How do we keep all these
kids
Off drugs and alcohol
Life used to be much
simpler
With pranks and panty
raids
Now kids must dodge
bullets
Like cults and getting
AIDS
Chorus
Verse 4
Perfect SAT scores
And Susie's off to Brown
Tom is first in our
class
He's headed for
Georgetown
Billy's on the west
coast
He's the starting
quarterback
Janie's in the Sunshine
state
She's burning up the
track
Sally's on the TV now
And Rob is selling cars
Ed delivered my third
kid
Paul runs the local bar
Steve is in the Midwest
He's just tryin' to work the land
George roams from town
to town
Just livin'
in his van.
Chorus
Repeat Verse 1
Chorus
©1993 Frank Meyer