National Education Week Lyrics - 10,000 Maniacs

Honor salute and speak 

To the corner standing flag 

Do you remember how 

The days of school were 

Indivisible separate worlds 

Compare contrast 

These dreams absurd 

Placid classroom faces 

Breathe in the features 

Of a demographics death map trilogy 

Children read them well 

Not to bury 3 of 4 sons 

As the likes of chivalry 

Not to take 6 of 30 bills 

To manufacture Corpus Christi 

And so you think it can be so serene 

History's most intolerable famine 

Has clutched our global tranquility 

Reaped the lives of children 

Maladies collaborate 

With cyclic despair 

Infanticide clamors to 20 times more 

In 4th and 5th Worlds 

The poor have always been 

Beside us, amid us 

Death has always been 

As million cease 15 million 

That's an annual reap 

Add divide multiply sum 41 thousand