On How To Educafuck A Person
On How To Educahate A Person | Lyrics
Sit down
Face front
Hands folded
Eyes forward
We are going to make you better
First you take a child
And build a room around him
Put the walls too close
Then tell him not to breathe
Give him names to wear
Until he starts to answer
Feed him shame for lunch
And call it discipline
Mark the page
Lower the grade
Red ink blooms like accusation
Say his name
Wrong every day
Then call the wound an education
You can teach a mouth to stay shut
You can teach a fist to hide
You can teach a heart to harden
When you lock the hurt inside
This is how
This is how
This is how you educahate a person
Take the light
Change the words
Make the mirror curse the face
This is how
This is how
This is how you educahate a person
Call it help
Call it school
Call it love
Then leave no place for pain
Next you build a lesson
Out of every failure
Make the room agree
He is the broken one
Let the laughter sharpen
Let the silence gather
Let the teacher smile
Like mercy owns a gun
Not with fists
Not with chains
No, the clever ones use framing
Not with fire
Not with blades
Just a thousand small renamings
You can teach a soul to vanish
You can teach a voice to crawl
You can teach a person hatred
By denying love at all
This is how
This is how
This is how you educahate a person
Take the wound
Write the rule
Make the whole damn room obey
This is how
This is how
This is how you educahate a person
Call it growth
Call it truth
Call it care
Then turn your eyes away
He was not born with fire in his mouth
He was not born with knives in his name
Somebody taught him where to stand
Somebody taught him what to swallow
Somebody taught him how to disappear
Then acted shocked when nothing followed
You can explain yourself all day long in there
The room will unconsciously reduce you to a log
Sit still
Speak right
Smile more
Don’t fight
Be good
Stay small
Take blame
That’s all
Wrong kid
Wrong face
Wrong time
Wrong place
No voice
No claim
No wound
No name
Educahate
Educahate
Teach the wound to spell your name
Educahate
Educahate
Call the cage a learning frame
Now he carries weather
That he cannot answer
Now he hears the lesson
Looping in his blood
Every word a hallway
Every look a sentence
Every open doorway
Smelling like a flood
He does not need a devil
He does not need a preacher
He only needs the echo
Of the room that made the creature
You can teach a mind to splinter
You can teach the sky to fall
You can teach a man he’s nothing
Till he proves it to you all
This is how
This is how
This is how you educahate a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make him mono in the brain
This is how
This is how
This is how you educahate a person
Call it order
Call it law
Call it normal
Call it sane
This is how
This is how
This is how you educahate a person
Every scar
Learns a word
Every silence grows a name
This is how
This is how
This is how you educahate a person
And when the room burns down
Everybody asks
Who taught the fire shame
Class dismissed
The lesson remains
Class dismissed
The wound knows your name
On How To Educasmile A Person | Lyrics
Smile
Come on now
It is not that bad
Show me your happy face
There you go
That is better
First you take a child
And put a room around him
Heavy drapes
A picture window
Fish bowl on the table
Tell him joy is duty
Tell him pain is rude
Tell him fear is ugly
And silence is gratitude
Mother says
Be happy
Father shakes the walls
Everybody smiles
While the little fish circle
Round and round them all
You can teach a face to lie
You can teach a mouth to freeze
You can teach a child to vanish
While he tries to say please
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasmile a person
Take the wound
Hide the blood
Make the mirror look polite
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasmile a person
Call it love
Call it peace
Call it family
Call it light
Next you make the hurting
Answer to correction
Why so quiet
Why so angry
Why can’t you behave
Teach him every terror
Needs a better expression
Teach him every coffin
Needs a ribbon and a name
Mother smiles
To show him
How survival wears a face
Father burns
Inside himself
And calls the fire grace
You can teach a room to bless you
While it steals away your breath
You can teach a smile to cover
Every little kind of death
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasmile a person
Take the truth
Bend the jaw
Make the broken thing perform
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasmile a person
Call it strength
Call it calm
Call it normal
Call it warm
No devil came
No demon stood beside the bed
No horned thing whispered
No red-eyed angel fed the dread
There was only the room
And the rule
And the face
There was only the bowl
And the fish
And the place
There was only the echo
Of what he was told
Smile through the damage
And call it control
Be sweet
Be still
Don’t cry
Don’t feel
Look nice
Act right
Smile wide
Sleep tight
No fear
No rage
No wound
No cage
Good child
Good lie
Good face
Don’t die
Educasmile
Educasmile
Teach the face to guard the pain
Educasmile
Educasmile
Make the sunshine wear a chain
Now his skullbones are the room
Now the walls are in his head
Now the drapes are always heavy
Now the goldfish all play dead
Now the voice that says be happy
Has a key beneath his skin
Now the bowl is in his breathing
And the circle starts again
Round and round
The water
Round and round
The shame
Round and round
The lesson
Till the smile forgets its name
You can teach a soul to sparkle
While it rots behind the eyes
You can teach a person smiling
Till the smile becomes disguise
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasmile a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make him bright enough to bleed
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasmile a person
Call it hope
Call it home
Call it something that he needs
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasmile a person
Every grin
Learns a rule
Every rule becomes a room
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasmile a person
And when the dead fish float
Everybody asks
Who taught the child to bloom
Smile
Come on now
It is not that bad
Show me your happy face
There you go
That is better
On How To Educabreak A Person
Stand up
No
Sit down
Try again
No
Not like that
Good
You are learning
First you take a person
And move the floor beneath him
Make the rules go crooked
Every time he learns to stand
Tell him this is safety
Tell him this is teaching
Then change the shape of mercy
In the palm of your hand
Raise the bar
Move the door
Say he should have known it
Praise him once
Cut him twice
Make him scared to own it
You can teach a spine to fold
You can teach a knee to bend
You can teach a hand to tremble
Before the fist descends
This is how
This is how
This is how you educabreak a person
Take the ground
Shift the room
Make the balance feel like sin
This is how
This is how
This is how you educabreak a person
Call it growth
Call it strength
Then make him start again
Next you make his effort
Evidence against him
If he tries too little
Say he does not care
If he tries too hard
Call it desperation
If he asks for help
Say life was never fair
Give him hope
Let it rot
Watch him reach and miss it
Give him rest
Take it back
Then punish him for needing it
You can teach a voice to crack
You can teach a will to crawl
You can teach a person falling
Till he thinks he chose the fall
This is how
This is how
This is how you educabreak a person
Take the wound
Move the blame
Make the mirror name the crime
This is how
This is how
This is how you educabreak a person
Call it help
Call it truth
Then break him one more time
He was not born afraid of trying
He was not born asking permission to breathe
Somebody taught him the room had teeth
Somebody taught him the floor could leave
Somebody taught him hope was bait
Somebody taught him every door was late
Somebody watched him reach again
Then called the breaking discipline
Stand up
Fall down
Speak up
Sit down
Try hard
Too much
Need help
Lose touch
Wrong step
Wrong tone
Wrong face
Alone
Good boy
Stay small
Break first
Don’t fall
Educabreak
Educabreak
Teach the spine to fear the sky
Educabreak
Educabreak
Teach the hands to not know why
Now he hears a footstep
And his body answers
Now he sees a doorway
And prepares to lose
Now he calls it wisdom
When he chooses smaller
Now he calls it peace
When there is nothing left to choose
Every room remembers
Every wall repeats
Every little silence
Has a boot beneath its feet
You can teach a mind to shatter
Without making any sound
You can teach a man he’s safer
When he’s broken on the ground
This is how
This is how
This is how you educabreak a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make the future feel like pain
This is how
This is how
This is how you educabreak a person
Call it order
Call it care
Call it keeping him restrained
This is how
This is how
This is how you educabreak a person
Every try
Learns a trap
Every trap becomes a law
This is how
This is how
This is how you educabreak a person
And when he will not rise
Everybody asks
Who taught the knees to fall
Stand up
No
Sit down
Good
You are learning
On How To Educahelpless A Person | Lyrics
Don’t make that face
Come here
No, not like that
Say sorry
There you go
That is better
First you take a child
And make him read the weather
Every sigh
Every door
Every change inside the room
Teach him love is balance
Teach him peace is labor
Teach him he is safest
When he guesses what to do
Watch the eyes
Watch the hands
Watch the jawline tightening
Hear the chair
Hear the glass
Hear the quiet lightning
You can teach a heart to listen
For the anger in the walls
You can teach a child to answer
Before anybody calls
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Make him sweet
Make him small
Make him useful when afraid
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Call it love
Call it peace
Then make him pay and pay
Next you teach his body
That desire is danger
Wanting things
Needing things
Having any shape at all
If he asks
He is selfish
If he waits
He is lazy
If he hurts
He is trouble
If he speaks
He makes it worse
Give him praise
When he bends
Give him warmth for disappearing
Take his name
Call it manners
Then reward the volunteering
You can teach a mouth to soften
Every truth before it leaves
You can teach a soul to worship
At the altar of appease
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Take the wound
Dress it nice
Make the broken thing behave
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Call it kind
Call it good
Then make obedience brave
He was not born apologizing for the air
He was not born responsible for every room
Somebody taught him love had to be earned
Somebody taught him anger was his doom
Somebody taught him peace was his assignment
Somebody taught him hunger was a crime
Somebody smiled when he erased himself
And called it growing up in time
Read the room
Fix the mood
Lower eyes
Bring the food
Say you’re fine
Take the blame
Hide the hurt
Praise the flame
Good child
Good mask
No need
Don’t ask
Be nice
Bleed clean
Stay loved
Stay unseen
Educaplease
Educaplease
Teach the spine to bow and smile
Educaplease
Educaplease
Make the cage feel worth the while
Now he enters every doorway
Looking for the damage
Now he knows the temperature
Before the room can speak
Now he calls it kindness
When he leaves himself behind him
Now he calls it wisdom
When he makes his wanting weak
Every yes remembers
Every no feels cursed
Every little favor
Is a coffin rehearsed
You can teach a man to vanish
In the service of the peace
You can teach a person pleasing
Till the pleasing never leaves
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make him servant to the room
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Call it grace
Call it care
Call it learning how to bloom
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Every need
Learns to kneel
Every hunger learns a chain
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
And when he has no self
Everybody says
He was always so well-trained
Say sorry
Smile
Mean it this time
There you go
That is better
On How To Educaplease A Person | Lyrics
Don’t make that face
Come here
No, not like that
Say sorry
There you go
That is better
First you take a child
And make him read the weather
Every sigh
Every door
Every change inside the room
Teach him love is balance
Teach him peace is labor
Teach him he is safest
When he guesses what to do
Watch the eyes
Watch the hands
Watch the jawline tightening
Hear the chair
Hear the glass
Hear the quiet lightning
You can teach a heart to listen
For the anger in the walls
You can teach a child to answer
Before anybody calls
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Make him sweet
Make him small
Make him useful when afraid
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Call it love
Call it peace
Then make him pay and pay
Next you teach his body
That desire is danger
Wanting things
Needing things
Having any shape at all
If he asks
He is selfish
If he waits
He is lazy
If he hurts
He is trouble
If he speaks
He makes it worse
Give him praise
When he bends
Give him warmth for disappearing
Take his name
Call it manners
Then reward the volunteering
You can teach a mouth to soften
Every truth before it leaves
You can teach a soul to worship
At the altar of appease
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Take the wound
Dress it nice
Make the broken thing behave
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Call it kind
Call it good
Then make obedience brave
He was not born apologizing for the air
He was not born responsible for every room
Somebody taught him love had to be earned
Somebody taught him anger was his doom
Somebody taught him peace was his assignment
Somebody taught him hunger was a crime
Somebody smiled when he erased himself
And called it growing up in time
Read the room
Fix the mood
Lower eyes
Bring the food
Say you’re fine
Take the blame
Hide the hurt
Praise the flame
Good child
Good mask
No need
Don’t ask
Be nice
Bleed clean
Stay loved
Stay unseen
Educaplease
Educaplease
Teach the spine to bow and smile
Educaplease
Educaplease
Make the cage feel worth the while
Now he enters every doorway
Looking for the damage
Now he knows the temperature
Before the room can speak
Now he calls it kindness
When he leaves himself behind him
Now he calls it wisdom
When he makes his wanting weak
Every yes remembers
Every no feels cursed
Every little favor
Is a coffin rehearsed
You can teach a man to vanish
In the service of the peace
You can teach a person pleasing
Till the pleasing never leaves
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make him servant to the room
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Call it grace
Call it care
Call it learning how to bloom
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
Every need
Learns to kneel
Every hunger learns a chain
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-please a person
And when he has no self
Everybody says
He was always so well-trained
Say sorry
Smile
Mean it this time
There you go
That is better
On How To Educasilence A Person | Lyrics
Lower your voice
Not here
Not now
We do not talk about that
Good
You are learning
First you take a person
And make the truth expensive
Charge him every time
A real word leaves his mouth
Tell him peace is fragile
Tell him speech is selfish
Tell him love means knowing
What must never be let out
Hear the step
Hide the thought
Put the face together
Swallow hard
Breathe through stone
Call the silence better
You can teach a tongue to vanish
You can teach a throat to close
You can teach a living witness
To become what no one knows
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasilence a person
Take the voice
Break the field
Make the mouth afraid of air
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasilence a person
Call it peace
Call it love
Then leave the truth in there
Next you make his speaking
Sound like an attack
If he names the damage
Say he wants to start a war
If he asks a question
Call him disrespectful
If he tells the story
Ask what he would say that for
Change the room
Change the rules
Make the witness guilty
Close the door
Dim the light
Keep the family pretty
You can teach a wound to whisper
You can teach a scream to kneel
You can teach a person bleeding
To protect what made him bleed
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasilence a person
Take the truth
Fold it small
Make it sleep behind the teeth
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasilence a person
Call it calm
Call it grace
Then make the quiet look clean
He was not born without a voice
He was not born afraid of sound
Somebody taught him walls have ears
Somebody taught him words get found
Somebody taught him naming hurts
Somebody taught him asking costs
Somebody watched him disappear
Then called it peace when he was lost
Don’t say
Don’t ask
Don’t tell
Don’t crack
Smile small
Stand still
Take blame
Stay chill
Too loud
Too much
Bad tone
Don’t touch
No truth
No claim
No voice
No name
Educasilence
Educasilence
Teach the mouth to fear the flame
Educasilence
Educasilence
Make the quiet wear his name
Now he keeps a courtroom
In the back of every sentence
Now he edits breathing
Before breathing can begin
Now he hears the warning
In the shape of every doorway
Now he locks the story
And apologizes to the key
Every word remembers
Every pause has teeth
Every little almost
Dies behind the need to please
You can teach a soul to mute itself
Before the room can hear
You can teach a person silence
Till the silence disappears
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasilence a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make the witness lose the stand
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasilence a person
Call it manners
Call it mercy
Call it learning to be kind
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasilence a person
Every truth
Learns a lock
Every lock becomes a room
This is how
This is how
This is how you educasilence a person
And when he cannot answer
Everybody asks
Who taught the mouth the tomb
Lower your voice
Not here
Not now
We do not talk about that
Good
You are learning
On How To Educadoubt A Person | Lyrics
Are you sure
Think carefully
That is not what happened
Try again
There you go
Now you are remembering
First you take a person
And move the truth behind him
Leave the room the same
But change the story in the air
Tell him he is certain
Only when you say so
Tell him eyes are dangerous
And memory is unfair
Say the door
Was never open
Say the bruise was always old
Say the fire
Was only weather
Say he feels too much cold
You can teach a mind to stutter
You can teach a nerve to lie
You can teach a person doubting
Every witness in his eyes
[Chorus]
This is how
This is how
This is how you educadoubt a person
Take the truth
Move the frame
Make the mirror lose the face
This is how
This is how
This is how you educadoubt a person
Call it help
Call it care
Then make his memory plead its case
Next you make his questions
Sound like accusations
Make his need for answers
Look like sickness in the blood
If he names the pattern
Call it overthinking
If he shows the evidence
Say evidence is not enough
Change the time
Change the tone
Change the meaning after
Make him ask
What he heard
While you weaponize the laughter
You can teach a voice to soften
Before truth can leave the tongue
You can teach a grown man asking
If the damage ever comes
This is how
This is how
This is how you educadoubt a person
Take the wound
Change the word
Make the broken thing explain
This is how
This is how
This is how you educadoubt a person
Call it calm
Call it love
Then make him apologize for pain
He was not born afraid of knowing
He was not born unsure of light
Somebody taught him day was questionable
Somebody taught him wrong was right
Somebody taught him proof was rude
Somebody taught him grief was pride
Somebody moved the room an inch
Then asked him why his feet had lied
Are you sure
No you are not
That was small
You forgot
Too intense
Too unclear
Not a wound
Just a fear
Wrong again
Try once more
There was never
Any door
Good child
Stand there
Doubt yourself
Stay fair
Educadoubt
Educadoubt
Teach the eyes to ask permission
Educadoubt
Educadoubt
Make the mind betray its mission
Now he checks the weather
Before he trusts his body
Now he asks the hallway
If the hallway has a name
Now he keeps a record
Then distrusts the record
Now he carries proof
And still prepares to take the blame
Every thought divides him
Every word comes late
Every little maybe
Has a hand around its throat
You can teach a soul to fracture
Without ever raising sound
You can teach a person falling
To debate the ground
This is how
This is how
This is how you educadoubt a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make the center disappear
This is how
This is how
This is how you educadoubt a person
Call it wisdom
Call it growth
Call it learning not to fear
This is how
This is how
This is how you educadoubt a person
Every fact
Learns to shake
Every memory learns shame
This is how
This is how
This is how you educadoubt a person
And when he cannot speak
Everybody asks
Who taught the truth to change
Are you sure
Think carefully
That is not what happened
Try again
There you go
Now you are remembering
On How To Educafear A Person | Lyrics
Listen
Did you hear that
No
Listen harder
That is how it starts
Good
Stay ready
First you take a child
And make the house uncertain
Let the quiet change
Before the trouble shows its teeth
Teach him every footstep
Has a hidden weather
Teach him every doorway
Has a shadow underneath
Close the door
Drop the glass
Make the whole room flinch
Say it’s fine
Say calm down
While the walls all clench
You can teach a chest to tighten
You can teach a breath to hide
You can teach a child the future
Is already taking sides
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-fear a person
Take the light
Bend the room
Make the morning feel unsafe
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-fear a person
Call it caution
Call it wisdom
Then put terror in its place
Next you make the warning
Look like ordinary living
Make the body scan
Before the mind can form a thought
If he jumps
Call him nervous
If he freezes
Call him lazy
If he runs
Call him guilty
If he stays
Say he got caught
Give him love
With conditions
Give him peace that might be taken
Give him rules
That keep shifting
Then condemn him when he’s shaken
You can teach the nerves to listen
For a storm behind a smile
You can teach a person safety
Is a room that lasts a while
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-fear a person
Take the wound
Add a clock
Make the seconds bare their teeth
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-fear a person
Call it care
Call it truth
Then make him scared of what he sees
He was not born afraid of silence
He was not born hunting every sound
Somebody taught him peace was temporary
Somebody taught him joy could turn around
Somebody taught him love had warning lights
Somebody taught him sleep could be a trap
Somebody watched his eyes keep searching
Then called him broken after that
Watch the door
Check the hall
Hold your breath
Hear it all
Don’t relax
Don’t trust
Don’t speak
Don’t rush
Too loud
Too still
Be good
Stay skilled
No rest
No ground
Fear first
Don’t drown
Educa-fear
Educa-fear
Teach the body where to shake
Educa-fear
Educa-fear
Make the daylight feel awake
Now he reads the ceiling
Like a map of coming weather
Now he hears a cupboard
Like a sentence in the dark
Now he calls it instinct
When he cannot stop the scanning
Now he calls it weakness
When the fear becomes a mark
Every room has corners
Every corner knows
Every little silence
Puts its finger to his throat
You can teach a soul to brace itself
Before the world arrives
You can teach a person living
Like survival is a shrine
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-fear a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make the future hunt his name
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-fear a person
Call it sharp
Call it smart
Call it learning from the pain
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-fear a person
Every door
Learns a threat
Every shadow learns a law
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-fear a person
And when he cannot rest
Everybody asks
Who taught the heart to draw
Listen
Did you hear that
No
Listen harder
That is how it starts
Good
Stay ready
On How To Educashame A Person
Look at yourself
No
Really look
You should be ashamed
Good
Now we are getting somewhere
First you take a person
And give the mirror teeth
Make the face look guilty
Before the mouth can speak
Tell him want is ugly
Tell him need is theft
Tell him every hunger
Is a stain upon his chest
Point the light
At the flaw
Make the whole room see it
Name the wound
Name it wrong
Then punish him for being it
You can teach a heart to lower
You can teach a gaze to fall
You can teach a living person
He is guilty for it all
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-shame a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make the mirror learn his name
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-shame a person
Call it truth
Call it love
Then make him kneel inside the blame
Next you make his body
Something he must answer for
Make his joy suspicious
Make his sadness feel obscene
If he laughs too loudly
Say he wants attention
If he hides too deeply
Ask him why he acts so mean
Give him clothes
Made of eyes
Give him skin that feels accused
Give him rules
For the room
Then say he always misconstrues
You can teach a mouth to apologize
Before the word is born
You can teach a soul to wear itself
Like something ripped and torn
This is how
This is how
This is how you educashame a person
Take the wound
Write the law
Make the broken thing confess
This is how
This is how
This is how you educashame a person
Call it growth
Call it grace
Then make him grateful for the mess
He was not born ashamed of breathing
He was not born hiding from his name
Somebody taught him love was conditional
Somebody taught him need was blame
Somebody taught him joy was arrogance
Somebody taught him grief was weak
Somebody watched his shoulders folding
Then praised him when he would not speak
Eyes down
Back straight
Smile small
Feel weight
Need less
Want none
Take blame
Good son
Wrong wish
Wrong skin
Wrong voice
Wrong grin
No pride
No claim
Be clean
Feel shame
Educashame
Educashame
Teach the mirror how to bite
Educashame
Educashame
Make the soul apologize to light
Now he keeps a courtroom
In the center of his body
Now he hears the verdict
Before anybody calls
Now he says I’m sorry
When the weather changes
Now he makes himself smaller
So the room can feel tall
Every scar has language
Every silence has a chair
Every little longing
Learns to kneel before despair
You can teach a mind to sentence
Every self before it stands
You can teach a person shame
Until the shame becomes his hands
This is how
This is how
This is how you educashame a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make the center feel profane
This is how
This is how
This is how you educashame a person
Call it manners
Call it morals
Call it washing out the stain
This is how
This is how
This is how you educashame a person
Every need
Learns a crime
Every mirror learns a chain
This is how
This is how
This is how you educashame a person
And when he hates himself
Everybody asks
Who taught the soul its name
Look at yourself
No
Really look
You should be ashamed
Good
Now we are getting somewhere
On How To Educalie A Person | Lyrics
Say it right
No
Not like that
Say what we agreed happened
Good
Now everyone can breathe
First you take a person
And make the truth unsafe
Put the real thing in his mouth
Then slap it from his face
Tell him peace requires
A cleaner explanation
Tell him facts are dangerous
Without proper decoration
Change the word
Change the scene
Make the story useful
Hide the bruise
Praise the room
Call the silence truthful
You can teach a tongue to bend
You can teach a mouth to sell
You can teach a living witness
How to counterfeit itself
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-lie a person
Take the truth
Dress it up
Make the broken thing agree
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-lie a person
Call it peace
Call it love
Then make the lie feel clean
Next you make the honest
Look like they are dangerous
If he names the damage
Say he wants to start a fight
If he tells the story
Ask him why he hates you
If he keeps it quiet
Say he finally got it right
Make him say
It was nothing
Make him smile while saying
Make him learn
Every sentence
Needs a little rearranging
You can teach a soul to edit
Every wound before it speaks
You can teach a child the fiction
That the whole damn family needs
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-lie a person
Take the wound
Change the name
Make the mirror plead the case
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-lie a person
Call it grace
Call it growth
Then make him falsify his face
He was not born fluent in denial
He was not born afraid of what was true
Somebody taught him facts had consequences
Somebody taught him memory could lose
Somebody taught him love required perjury
Somebody taught him truth would make them leave
Somebody smiled when he betrayed himself
And called it learning how to keep the peace
Say fine
Say good
Say no one
Misunderstood
Say small
Say less
Say no
When you mean yes
Hide blood
Hide flame
Take fault
Change names
Good child
Good line
Lie clean
Look fine
Educa-ie
Educalie
Teach the truth to wear a mask
Educalie
Educalie
Make the mouth survive the task
Now he keeps two ledgers
In the back of every answer
One for what occurred
And one for what the room allows
Now he calls it wisdom
When he leaves the truth bleeding
Now he calls it kindness
When he cuts the witness down
Every word has makeup
Every fact has chains
Every little almost
Learns to kneel before the claim
You can teach a mind to split
Between the wound and what it says
You can teach a person lying
Till the lie sleeps in his bed
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-lie a person
Take the child
Break the field
Make the true thing feel obscene
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-lie a person
Call it loyalty
Call it mercy
Call it keeping the house clean
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-lie a person
Every fact
Learns to kneel
Every memory learns disguise
This is how
This is how
This is how you educa-lie a person
And when he cannot trust his mouth
Everybody asks
Who taught the truth to lie
Say it right
No
Not like that
Say what we agreed happened
Good
Now everyone can breathe
On How To Educatellthesyeseylys (Or: The Mistypleedings)
You’re seeing things
Said Ms T. Pleedings,
No
I believe you
I just think
You might be tired
Maybe get your hearing checked, my dear
Might help you with a great fear, what?
I can make that call for you
If you want me two
I'm here - for you
Lean in on me, it's what we do
We are the Mistypleedings
And we are leaning in hard for you.
First, you take a person
And make the lie feel easy peasy
Small enough to swallow
Soft enough to pass
Large enough to earn its keep
Say it like the weather
Say it like you mean it
Whether you mean it or not
Say it with a face that is an unface
That does not know it wears a mask
Nothing moved
Nothing broke
Nobody meant to hurt you
So my story goes
That was not
What you heard
That was not a bird
Come with me, Suzy dear
Let's take a walk
Let me help convert you
You can teach a mouth to smooth
As the words leave the bruise
Without anything to see
You can teach the words to smooth
Every fracture in the room
You can teach the little yes
Like a tittle tittle bird
To arrive before the wound word
This is how
This is how
This is how you educatellthesyeseylys
Tell the eye
Sly lys
Make the wrong thing sound polite
This is how
This is how
This is how you educatellthesyeseylys
Easy yes
I lie
And the lie walks out in light
Next, you make the falsehood
What it is not, but what it could be be
Make it the undoing of the done
And yet it never even trips an alarm
Just part of ordinary breathing
No pulse jump jump
No eye twitch twitch
No trouble in the hand
Just a nagging, unfelt itch
Teach the tongue to carry
What it should only spit out
Let the mouth eat its way
Into your life and maybe, your wife
Just a little rearranging
Teach the face to say
Maybe yay - maybe no yay
There is nothing to understand
Nothing understood is there there to be
It was small yet tall
It was a mere thing and grand
It was kind, yet came at you blind
It was only a conversation, I'll say
I meant no harm to you or your kind
Why so tense and so prickly
Why so sharp and with a brow furrowed furrowed
Why this need for accusation
What are you hiding?
In your vacation station?
You can teach a witness mercy
Till the witness cannot see
Matters not a one whit two
You can teach a person lying
To sound like charity while
She sounds just like you
This is how
This is how
This is how you educatellthesyeseylys
Tell the eye
Sly lys
Make the soft thing hide the knife
This is how
This is how
This is how you educatellthesyeseylys
Easy yes
I lie
Move the frame and move a life
Nobody lied loudly
I promise. I swear.
Nobody kicked the door
I was the only one there.
Nobody wrote the damage
In a language you could know show
It was just a little judgment
A sentence was handed down
With a hard hand hard upon your back
And a voice - that was digging in for the attack
It was just a little yes, so what what what
Where the no had been attack attacked
It was just a time bandit shoulder
To lean-urn on after you fell down
Just a helpful little up one up two two
Dressed to kill with a look that splits the will
Say yes
Look clean clean
Lie small lie small
Stay sweet sweet
Wrong word, bad bird
Right smile, what did I hear heard?
Soft hand
Long file
It's gonna be a good little long while
No tells
No sweat
And not later yet either
No twitchy eye twitch
No debt not yet
Good voice unseen joist
Good eyes never heard the lies
Sly lys
I lies
High life high
Educa-tell
Educa-tell
The yes, no yes
The eye hymns don't need them.
The sly eye why easy lie needs nothing
To make it automatic!
Automatic eye lie no why lies
Educatell
Educatell
The easy who me
Given way to the no eye lies whys
Let's take a walk, my little Suzy dear
Along the beach that never cries
Now the lie is second nature
But still, second nature ain't first
You see? The sentence wears a collar
You hear it? The kindness hides a thirst
Now the mouth can run a run run ruin
With a whisper and a nod nod nod
Now the room can call it mercy
While it un-ears all it knows and unlearns God
Every lie confesses and easy undresses easy
Every easy answer bleeds out hard and easy lazy
Every little yes carries the singer's song
And has a witness who see sings in the key of ease
You can teach the truth to stu-stu-stutter
Underneath a polished tone you own
You can teach the lie to weak whisper
And me? Troublemaker? No. That's whisper lisper.
This is how
This is how
This is how you educatellthesyeseylys
Tell the eye
Sly lys
Make the almost pass for true
This is how
This is how
This is how you educatellthesyeseylys
Easy yes
I lie
And the lie says I was you
This is how
This is how
This is how you educatellthesyeseylys
No alarm
No scar
Just a sentence wearing lace
This is how
This is how
This is how you educatellthesyeseylys
And when the whole life bends
And you bend with it
Everybody asks looking all puzzled to death
Who taught that person to lie to that face
You’re seeing things
No
I believe you
Stop. You are over-reacting.
Stop. I am your friend.
Stop. There. Better now?
I just think
You might be tired
Maybe get your hearing checked, my dear
I can make that call for you
If you want me two
