Hi, come on in, door's open

Hi, you must be Manuel, hi

Uh, you ready to sit down?

Take a seat, go 'head

We'll get ready when you're comfy

I just need to tell you bout, um-

So, Manuel, what colleges have you been looking into for next year?

Oh, uh, I-I haven't really been looking that much around

Well you gotta have at least one place, any scholarships as well

I was just thinking that college may not be the best decision for me right now

Well then, what in the hell do you exactly plan on doing since you think that?

You see, the thing is...

You can’t take my ingenuity, put that on my application

You can’t take my creativity, put that on my application

You can’t take all the shit I been through, put that on my application

You can’t take how I feel, and put that on my application

You can’t take how I real, and put that on my application

You can’t take all the shit I been through, put that on my application

(Application)

Ooh baby, ooh ooh

Just rub it in, ooh

Spread it all over that paper ooh, let it sing, ooh

Eighty bucks a semester, that shit’s so frustrating

And all this trouble and even if they let us in

They be like:

“Will that be debit or credit?”

Shit, I got a visa

I ain’t got time for no edits

Such a nice vista, shit

Just thinking ‘bout my future makes me a Chris Kyle

Whole time saving face, without a single smile

I wouldn’t get mad

If somebody was trying to jack my style

I haven’t love, felt love, or something beautiful in quite a while

I’d take it as a compliment

I haven’t even comprehend

Why we fantasize going to college

Over starting our own lives again

I want passion, freedom, an anti-pride life

I wanna change the world

But society saying “That’s suicide”

I’ve had a taste

Lost it all before the 4th grade

Somehow I got this far

Sometimes I think it’s a mistake

You can’t take my ingenuity, put that on my application

You can’t take my creativity, put that on my application

You can’t take all the shit I been through, put that on my application

(Application)

You can’t take how I feel, and put that on my application

You can’t take how I real, and put that on my application

You can’t take all the shit I been through, put that on my application

(Application)

Oh my lawd, boy

If you dont fix your motherfucking life right now

What the fuck are you doing now?

T-that is the dumbest shit I ever lawd have, have, have

I always think to myself

“What if this don’t work out?"

But wait, since when does life ever even work out?

Delaying the inevitable

For a four year interval

Don’t sound reasonable

My life’s already far too miserable

I ain’t no ordinary joe

You can see from my work

I ain’t got an angel's voice

So I let the music pull the ropes

I got words like butter, I got meaning somewhere

I mean it’s a side hustle, neither of my parents even know

I look around and I see mostly disappointment

My minds in the future, very rarely in the moment

I be comparing where everyone in the room is going

Even then, in the industry and my confidence starts growing

I don’t know what’s my drive, why I wanna do this

The end-all, fuck-all final 'I’m gonna lose this'

I’m running out of time

I gotta deci-duate

I’m running out of options

I gotta fucking graduate

I’m running for my life

I got tons to contemplate

I’m running in these streets

I swear I'm, I’m going straight

Into misery, struggle, they say I’m a disease

All this shit I been given, it's giving me dis-ease

Uh, bitch please

This the part where I seize, my chance and my hands

At the concert I ain’t have yet, man

Rebuttal, I can’t ignore, but my college application

Is a burden on my soul, and I can’t take it anymore

There's no way you fucking got all of that

No way, no fucking way

You can’t take my ingenuity, put that on my application

You can’t take my creativity, put that on my application

You can’t take all the shit I been through, put that on my application

(Application)

You can’t take how I feel, and put that on my application

You can’t take how I real, and put that on my application

You can’t take all the shit I been through, put that on my application

(Application)

Manuel, are you ok?

Did you just zone out?

I’ve called your name twice

Goddamn, you really are hopeless

Y’know what, here

You’re wasting some other statistics’ time in here-

I mean, students' ugh, just leave, god

When will you children learn that these glory high school days don’t last forever

Fuck

What’s next?