LYRICS

Student loan trap, student loan trap
Hold you right back down, hold you right back

Think I need a minute!
Life is totally different in the real world and I don't know how to live it
Cause I just got out of school, 2009 is a rough time and it sucks to be new you
but you better get a clue, you only got 2 months to screw before that first loan payment is due
So hit it off with the minimum, at this rate this fat cake no mistake will take 30 years to chew
Yea you're living on a promise, that all that knowledge inside your noggin' come out stompin dream job knockin
Flauntin your degree a pedigree. Open up corporation a young bright mind, a new pristine machine
Gee this kid and his energy! His wide eyes are taking in the scene a ladder maker have to wait and see
He made his mind at age 18, set a firm direction for his life a vague idea engineer would be

Student loan trap, student loan trap
Hold you right back down, hold you right back

Gather round listen and I'll tell you bout my first job
I was squeezing out the sludge man, oh god
How did this happen? What a fall from brick and Ivy
Leaking self esteem from the cracking in my psyche
I was red face stammerin, self pity wallowin, escape into the music clammin up in gatherings
Cause I can't tie my identity to this!
And so I exist twixt dreams and life adrift
Moving through the states by myself
Reliance one time for my mind, exercise for my health
I learned to shield my identity from my work
Sectioned off a garden in my head where I watered my self worth
But that doesn't mean that I'm not invested in the outcome, how come?
My motives are strong internal forces heavy like loaded guns
I found pride in this, my early struggle
Held my head high, worked my will like a muscle muscle muscle
I worked my will like a muscle muscle muscle

I turned my student loan trap into student loan math
student loan trap, student loan math
I turned my student loan trap into student loan mathematics
smack the balance, student loan math
We turned our student loan trap into student loan math
student loan trap, student loan math
We turned our student loan trap into student loan mathematics
smack the balance, student loan math

Go and take a look, don't wait
No fear, no blame, just plain escape
With the student loan math, student loan math
Step onto the path now, step onto the path
Just go.