A Lesson to Take

1 day ago by @zinglizh

A Lesson to Take

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Liner Notes

#metal #hardrock I wrote this about an on-line job I had a couple of years ago on a platform called Take Lessons which has since shut down. Yay! I was teaching non-classical singing styles like rock, which no one else there was doing. Another singing teacher doing things the conventional way was upset that students left her class to join mine instead so she wanted to get rid of me. She was friends with the administration who was also unhappy with me for telling the students how little I was being paid. And they kept changing the "policies" to be whatever they wanted based on what I was doing or not doing. These ladies (one named Rosita aka little rose and one with a screen name of Glitter) set out to find a way to get me removed. They couldn't catch me doing anything wrong but my classes were cancelled anyhow without warning "because of several complains" but somehow my regular followers were sill able to join my last class day because of a glitch so I was at least able to tell the students what was going on and how to find me outside of the platform. What a nightmare. Thus the angry song. Took forever to make this demo track. Lots of cutting up guitar riffs and drums into small pieces to get the rhythm and notes the way I wanted.

Lyrics

I'm waiting for the other stiletto to drop
Is it 1984 cause I feel I'm being watched
The rules are always changing, rearranging to fit your green-eyed plot

Take me on or let it be
Nothing compares to the land of the free, you're jealous
Turn around and bury me with a sharp knife until the day I die

Your feast of lies took me by surprise
Couldn’t recognize the trap from the cheese

Woe a lesson to take
Scattered your glitter to catch this prey
Woe a lesson to take
I'm bleeding from the poses of your little roses
Woe a lesson to take
I won't take it

Sticking to your role with the old status quo
Want to murder this bird ‘til the final feathers fall
Extinction, in cahoots, a ruse and cover your ass with a pasted loophole

Dare I express what my value is worth
Never wanting me to speak it cause the truth hurts
Won’t beg to differ, don’t need to beg, I differ that’s why I’m a threat

And this coo coo’s flying insanity's nest
Won't be dulled and controlled by your crude lobotomist
There's a glitch in your system, can’t keep me in check like a pawn cause I’m gone

Woe a lesson to take
Scattered your glitter to catch this prey
Woe a lesson to take
I'm bleeding from the poses of your little roses
Woe a lesson to take
I won't take it

I’m resting easy not claiming guilty on a witch hunt with evidence you haven’t got
Won’t play the scarlet Knave in your wonderland domain

Woe a lesson to take
Scattered your glitter to catch this prey
Woe a lesson to take
I'm bleeding from the poses of your little roses
Woe a lesson to take
I won’t take it, take it, take it, you won’t take me down

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