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You Can't Always Pick What You Want

Jarrett Heintz · 4:21

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Lyrics

  1. You can’t always pick what you want,
  2. You can’t always pick what you want,
  3. You can’t always pick what you want…
  4. But if you read real wise,
  5. You just might find,
  6. You get the test right.
  7. I saw a question in the classroom,
  8. It was twisting my brain inside.
  9. I knew the fact from my study,
  10. But the options didn’t coincide.
  11. Distractors in the margin,
  12. Each one looked halfway true.
  13. Knowledge in my head was certain,
  14. But the answers all looked skewed.
  15. You can’t always pick what you want,
  16. You can’t always pick what you want,
  17. You can’t always pick what you want…
  18. But if you read real wise,
  19. You just might find,
  20. You get the test right.
  21. The stem said best not only,
  22. The trap was hiding in the tone.
  23. Elimination was my only weapon,
  24. Throw the worst ones out and hone.
  25. Cognitive dissonance rising,
  26. Between recall and the choice.
  27. But exams don’t grade your essays,
  28. They grade the bubble you voice.
  29. You can’t always pick what you want…
  30. The test don’t ask for wisdom,
  31. It wants alignment with its key.
  32. Not the world as you might know it,
  33. But the test-maker’s reality.
  34. You can’t always pick what you want,
  35. You can’t always pick what you want,
  36. You can’t always pick what you want…
  37. But if you think test-wise,
  38. You just might find,
  39. You get the test right.