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Stuck

from Extraordinary by Geha

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Taryn and Allie express their frustrations.

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TARYN:
Stuck between a rock and a high school
Getting tough to be thin enough to fit
Suck it in to squeeze in side and hide from ridicule
Suck it up more than I would admit

TARYN & ALLIE:
I didn’t think it would be easy, I didn’t guess it’d be this bad
After all the movies smile and lie that these will be the best years we’ve ever had

ALLIE:
Stuck between a rock and a high school
Can’t we just negotiate a truce?
But when I try to speak I end up looking like a fool
And I just can’t invite all the abuse

BOTH:
In a couple of years, I’m gonna be stuck between a rock and an office
If I can get a job
So work just pays off with more work, while trapped inside some soulless thoughtless mob?

ENSEMBLE:
I think the system’s broken and it’s starting to decay
We forgot that we were human somewhere there along the way
Nobody’s gonna fix it, cause it’s too much of a strain
And even though it’s broke, it’s real easy to maintain.

Stuck inside a system that’s a nightmare
Which claims we’ll be prepared to live the dream
To our face they smile and say it’s all perfectly fare
To our backs they undermine and scheme
Stuck between my freedom and conditioning to please
The more I learn the less I’m sure I know
I think I may be sinking, see the quicksand’s at my knees
I won’t be left behind, just left below

Still my potential’s waived before me, like a prize I have to claim
So I sacrifice to meet a standard set by men who can’t recall my name

I think they’re trying to break me so I don’t upset the rules
Forget all of my instincts, another casualty of schools
Nobody sees the danger, no, they think it’s what I need
So I either fight the system, or embrace it and succeed

TARYN:
I hate high school
And I hate rocks
I hate the middle
But I’m stuck

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from Extraordinary, released March 21, 2012
Recorded at the original production, February 2011
Music and lyrics by Andrew Geha
© 2011 Andrew Geha

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Andrew Geha is an award-winning playwright and theater teacher who has worked at Friends Academy, a Quaker school in Locust Valley, NY, since 2001.

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