Teacher]

Ok class, ok everybody settle down

Everybody settle down

Um, as you all know we've been working

Real hard on getting our school essays done

Does anybody have theirs to read first?



[Sammie]

Mr. Evans, my essay is ready



[Teacher]

Ok everybody, Sammie has the floor



[Sammie]

When I grow up

I wonder if people will be more afraid

To cry than they are to die

Will I be able to see a rainbow

In a smog-filled sky?

Will there be any trees alive?

If not, how will the planet survive?

Will the Internet have a web-site at

www.lifetimeairsupply?

When I grow up

If I got bored and had nothing to do

And me and my son built a canoe

Would water that used to be blue

Be so polluted it would give us the flu?

Will a thousand dollars be enough for a shoe?

Will I have to be like you?

Letting money make a decision

For everything that I do?

When I grow up

Will the existence of dolphins and whales

Just be story I tell?

Starting with "Once upon a time..."

Ending with "Where did we fail?"

Will adults be the hammer and nail?

Will schools be next door to jails?

Will the truth be illegal to sell?

When I grow up

Will anyone be on the news

For anything besides killing?

Will those drug dealers still

Be standing in front of my building?

Will they ever learn how to love?

Or stay afraid of the feeling?

Will tv and music videos

Still raise America's children?

When I grow up

Will innocent kids still be

Wrongfully touched?

Will students go home from school

In a bulletproof bus?

What if children had no one to trust?

That would hurt me so much

And I wanna be happy when I grow up