Jostens Renaissance 2011 National Conference Pep Rally Lyrics

Pep Rally Lyrics
from the 2011 Jostens Renaissance National Conference
Lyrics to Detention, written and performed by
Detention
Oh I’m the coolest guy in school
I break some hearts I break the rules, yeah!
Oh I’m the baddest guy in town t
I build them
up just to tear them down
Can’t you hear that the bell has rung
Another day
of school is done, yeah!
I can’t play, I have to stay after for detention
‘cuz today, teacher said I didn’t pay attention
I can’t play, I have to stay after for detention
Take me to another dimension, yeah!
the school day started nextt to Sally
it ended with an academic rally
the kind that even honors guys like me
who are tooo tough to get no
Cs or Bs, yeah!
And the guys who show up
late like fools
We can make it up by doing well in school, yeah!
Lyrics to Don't Stop Believing as performed by Detention
(obviously played to the tune of Don't Stop
Believing by Journey)
Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the ACT wants to
go somewheree

Just a city boy
Born and raised in south Detroit
He took the
SAT, he’ll go anywhere
A teacher in
a dark home room
A smell of chalk erasers looms
wonders if she can make itt right
It goes on and on and on and on
Students waiting
Up and down the school hallway
Their shadows searching for a sign
Homeroom teachers
Living just to t find emotion
searching somewhere for a sign
Working hard to raise our grades
Gonna raise
our GPAs
Payin' anything to take the test just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some weree born to sing the blues
Oh, the lesson never ends
It goes on and on and on and on
Students waiting
Up and down the school hallway
Their shadows searching for a sign
Homeroom teachers
Living just to t find emotion
searching somewhere for a sign

Don't stop believin'
Hold on to that t feelin'
Homeroom teachers
Lyrics to We're Not Gonna Take It
as performed by Detention
(Played to tune t of We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister)
Oh We're Not Gonna Take
It
no, We Ain' 't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore
They try to tell us all how
to leave no kid behind now
We will unite, we won’t back down
we'll try our
best in school and
there ain't no way we'll fail now
this is our school, this is our song
chorus
Oh they said I couldn’t do it
you said I had to prove it
I’ll do my best, I’ll prove them wrong
I’ll just have
to study harder
With school I can go farther
Just try your best, It gets you through
oh.............. .......
oh.............. .......
we're Right/ /yeah we're Free/yeah
we'll Fight/yeah you'll See/ /yeah
chorus (x2)
no Way!

Solo
oh.............. .......
oh.............. .......
we're Right/ /yeah we're Free/yeah
we'll Fight/yeah you'll See/ /yeah
chorus (x4)
Lyrics to Every School Has It's Rules as performed by Detention
(Played to tune t of Every Rose Has It's Thorn by Poison)
We both sat silently still
In the study
hall
Although we both took math together
we could never get it right
Was it somethin' I said or somethin' I did?
Did my numbers come out right?
Though I tried to find the square root
Though I tried but I guess that's t why, they
say
Every school has its rules
Just like every class has it’ s clown
Just like every teacher makes us take work home
Every school has its rules, yeah, it does
I’m sitting in
my favorite class
Listentin’ to
the teacher talk
He says History’s a game of people come and people go
But I wonder, does he know
Has he ever met Augustus?

I know I’d have better grades right now
If I could've
tried some more somehow
chorus
Though it's been a while now
I still can’t get an A
Like an English test, a B is good
But that A, that t A escapes
I know we could have gotten that one right
If I'd known 8 times 8
Instead of acing math we both
never got our As
But now, I hear you've found a new square
root
that math never meant thatt much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife
Lyrics to Read and Write All Night as performed by Detention
(Played to tune t of Rock and Roll All Night by Kiss)
You teach us everything you've got
You keep on teachin’ and the t we learn a lot
You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
You say you wanna give us a test
We forgot to
study but we'll try our best
You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
You keep on teachin', you keep on teachin'

I wanna read and write all night and study everyday
I wanna read and write all night and study everyday
I wanna read and write all night and study everyday
I wanna read and write all night and study everyday
You gave us Shakespeare and it took us a while
When Harry
Potter is more
our style
You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
You make us read everything you've got
Teacher, teacher that's quite a lot
And you drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
You keep on shoutin', you keep on shoutin'
I wanna read and write all night and study everyday
I wanna read and write all night and study everyday
I wanna read and write all night and study everyday
I wanna read and write all night and study everyday
Lyrics to Renaissance City and Studied All Night Long ass performed by Detention.
Intro to "Renaissance City"
(played to the tune of Paradise City by Guns 'n Roses) and "Studied All Night Long (played
to
Shook me all night long by
AC/DC):
Take me down to the Renaissance City where the teachers rock and thee grads are ready. Oh won't you
please take me
home.
You Studiedd all night long
It was her freshman year
She was so
full of fear
She was the most scared student I had ever seen
She had wide open eyes
she was about to cry
didn’t want to give this school thing a try
getting ready for tests

wanted to do her best
The time had come but she
was not prepared
'Cause the clock was ticking
her mind was clicking
but the clock kept tickin’, so
she pulled an all-nighter, yeah she
studied all night long
Working double time
On her study time
She is a senior now, she’ll be a grad somehow
she has some work to do
just to make
it through
to graduation day she’s gonna find a way
So I came up with a plan
to help her graduate
Now she crosses the stage
oh yeah she crosses the stage
'Cause the clock was ticking
her mind was clicking
but the clock kept tickin’, so
she pulled an all-nighter, yeah she
studied all night long