Golden Stars (feat. Serhan)

School taught us all things, but nothing that we need to know
School taught us old things, but nothing that we need for this life
For example
Like how to deal with the friends that stab you in the back
Or waking up everyday feeling you hate your life
Or how to form satisfactory relationships
But, son, "Do well and you'll live well," they said
We were given golden stars
(But) now we're feeling broken and scarred
And I know, I know, I know
We still may be lost but alive
We were given golden stars
(But) now we're feeling broken and scarred
And I know, I know, I know
We still may be lost but alive
First we're told when we're young, we "can be anything"
Then we grow, and we're scorned, we can't be anything!
Can you even see what you're doing to breathe?
Don't you even see that this is no way to live?
When we meet and we greet, and ask, "what do you do?"
Then we judge and we grudge, and blame it all on luck
We define ourselves, by simply our professions
We define ourselves by worthless, silly questions
We were given golden stars
(But) now we're feeling broken and scarred
And I know, I know, I know
We still may be lost but alive
We were given golden stars
(But) now we're feeling broken and scarred
And I know, I know, I know
We still may be lost but alive
We praise intelligence... though it's abstract
Suppress the mind, we spit out facts, fill in the blanks
Repress - original thoughts - intact
We're disappointed, with neurosis, insecure, unstable, anxious
Hang by a thread, message unread. I've a millennial crisis...
If I woe... then you'll say I'm "vulnerable"
And I loathe... When you say "all we need is love"
But I hope... That one day you will see
That all we need to know is how to like ourselves, yeah
We were given golden stars
(But) now we're feeling broken and scarred
And I know, I know, I know
We still may be lost but alive
We were given golden stars
(But) now we're feeling broken and scarred
And I know, I know, I know
We still may be lost but alive
If I woe... then you'll say I'm "vulnerable"
And I loathe... When you say "all we need is love"
But I hope... That one day you will see
That all we need to know is how to like ourselves
Yeah