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