Here I Am

I've never been an academic, I never did well at school Never made the grade like we're all told we're supposed to do I was slow and to cope I would joke and be a teachers fool Just to hide it He said, I'll never come to much, I'll never be no good I didn't fit in the vision of the curriculum like I should Who say's a test is the best way to get us understood? I don't think so. Don't think so, no. Here I am. Tell me, what I gotta lose? Tell me, what I gotta prove? Here I am. Ain't no win without a fail So let me fail forward, hey. Here I am. I said I was slow but now I know another point of view Turns out, I let every little thing Sink in until I know it through in through Ain't it funny to kill a mockingbird are words that we learn at school On compassion? Well, here I am. Tell me, what I gotta lose? Tell me, what I gotta prove? Here I am. Ain't no win without a fail So let me fail forward, hey. Here I am. Each day, I make a bet that the voices in my head Won't always understand, or take me as I am I didn't read a lit of books as a kid until my table's turned At 21 I began to eat up the whole shelf filling up myself in the words Of other misfits looking for a home in a lonely world Now, here I am. Tell me, what I gotta lose? Tell me, what I gotta prove? Here I am. Ain't no win without a fail So let me fail forward, hey. Here I am. So let me fail... So let me fail forward. Here I am So let me fail... So let me fail forward, hey.