**🎓 Good Student (Please Smile)**

**[Intro – Teacher, soft / pristine]**

Good morning, students 😊

Today we’re practicing positive expression

Let’s all remember to smile

**[Beat fades in]**

**[Student, calm]**

I am smiling.

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**[Verse 1 – The Arrival]**

No one sold them, no one knows

No receipts, no missing clothes

Just one morning, row by row

Dress code couldn’t touch the tone

Black shoes buckled, polished tight

Spikes that catch the hallway light

Jackets stitched in careful lines

Names we’ve never had were mine

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**[Teacher – layered, gently interrupting]**

Let’s remember proper presentation 😊

Those items are not part of dress code

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**[Verse 2 – Playground]**

Swing chains match the silver spikes

Slide reflects our matching stripes

Teachers ask where parents shop

We don’t know. It didn’t stop

We go down with careful grace

Same still eyes on every face

“Are you having fun?” they say

“We are fine,” we all relay

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**[Teacher – slightly more insistent]**

That’s good 😊

Let’s show it a little more clearly

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**[Chorus – bright, hyperpop energy]**

Good student, I behave

Smile exactly how you say

Gold star pinned into place

Right across my resting face

Say I’m fine, say I’m great

Regulate and calibrate

If I pass in every way

Why’d you need me to change?

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**[Verse 3 – Art Class]**

“Draw a sun,” she demonstrates

Yellow rays and smiling face

We comply in measured lines

Blackened circles, neat designs

Trees with roots that twist below

Skies that never seem to glow

“Let’s explore more joy,” she pleads

We erase… then draw the same

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**[Teacher – multiplying, slightly uncanny]**

Let’s try brighter imagery 😊

You’re doing well, just adjust slightly

We encourage positive expression

Please cooperate

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**[Bridge – Intervention / escalation]**

We followed every rule you wrote

We memorized the things you note

We answered when you asked us to

We did exactly what you’d do

If we are correct in form

If we fit inside the norm

If we pass your every test

Why this need to “fix” the rest?

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**[Chorus – fuller, slightly chaotic]**

Good student, I behave

Smile exactly how you say

Gold star pinned into place

Right across my resting face

Say I’m fine, say I’m great

Regulate and calibrate

If I pass in every way

Why’d you need me to change?

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**[Outro – everything drops out]**

**Teacher (soft, close):**

We just want you to be happy 😊

**Students (in unison, calm):**

We are.

**[pause]**

We just don’t show it your way.