Name: ThePowerOfYet by Matt Peterson
Duration: 2 min 32 s
Description: A little project I made for a school assembly on not giving up, growth mindset, and the power of "Yet".

A little project I made for a school assembly on not giving up, growth mindset, and the power of "Yet".

ThePowerOfYet

Type One Beat

This is a song about the best part of teaching: Summer Vacation. 
This track also marks the reunion of Type 1 and Fernbeard the Nomad. From their days as humble student custodians to their illustrious careers as rap stars and moguls, these two have been though the grinder, and they've earned a vacation.

Type 1 and Fernbeard the Nomad - "The Payoff"

It's not perfect, but I think it's pretty good.

Lyrics:
You got a case of don’t-care-itis and it’s going around
You won the Cy Young award for how you throw in the towel
Why’s your voice so whiney? How you whisper so loud 
And every time you talk, you need some soap in your mouth
All your beefin’ in the halls, got me having a cow
Did you stop and read the bullet point rules we allow?
I thought this was my calling, now I’m starting to doubt
I’m a raft in a tsunami, Dixie cup in a drought

So I hop in the booth 
Now I’m talking to you
But I’m not gettin’ through
Cuz you’re not in the mood

So I stop and review
‘till I got Déjà vu 
But you’re so full of crap
Like a mop at the zoo

The rock in my shoe, the double-shot in my brew 
The squeaky wheel, blind squirrel, and the broke clock too
I wanna see the bright side, but you’re blocking my view
Now I don’t ponder the future, ‘cuz we’re probably doomed

You put the “dumb” in wisdom
You put the “y” in try
You put the “spec” in respect
You put the “good” in goodbye

Think of your peers
And set the ego aside
Spell it out like weird 
Put the “we” before “I”

You put the “dumb” in wisdom
You put the “y” in try
You put the “spec” in respect
You put the “good” in goodbye

I’m entering zeros, they’re like Hakuna Matata 
We don’t speak the same language like orange to manzana
Gotta make ‘em top bananas, but it’s proven a problem
Cuz if these students were a yogurt, they’d be “Fruit on the Bottom”

They want fortune and fame, but I’m like stay in your lane
I’m getting paid to liberate you, why you sportin’ the chains
My motivation needs sustaining, but I’m waking up drained 
Some days I’m unable, when I’m Abel they’re Cain

Tell them stick with me, they cut corners like checkers
They put the a in “definitely” and the f’s into “effort” 
I told myself for half a decade, next year will be better
But now my glue’s dried up and we’re not sticking together
We’re not birds of a feather, I’m not flocking with you
You may not wanna hear it, but all my talking is true
You’re boxing in the bathroom, and you’re vaping in school
We checked the rough for some diamonds, all we found was a Juul

[chorus]

Who needs an education? You got YouTube in bed.
It’s meaningless to think, when you can google instead
They’re zombies, beware, of the slouching dead
Screen time lemurs with no thoughts in their head

Why am I still the guide where your drives are at?
Why’d you go and put emojis in a final draft?
I can see when you try to go and hide a tab
Cover cameras but you sign away your life to snap

Updated class I got robot replacements
I swear to you that I can see the pixels on their faces
speaking in meme, sneaking peeks at their screens
If they could be anything, I think they’d be a machine 

You don’t have time to read, you watch a season in a night
You don’t talk like a bully, but I heard you can type
I think you’re under the influence of influencers, guys
The real world’s lit, come and visit sometime!

[chorus]

ThePowerOfYet

Matt Peterson

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