I don't wanna go to school (we don't need no)
I don't need no education (education)
I don't wanna be like you
I don't wanna save the nation (daddy, no!)
I just wanna live my life (we don't need no)
Every day a celebration (thought control)
One day I'ma leave this world
I'm waitin' for the revelation

I wanna kill myself! I'm still debating
In front of a baptist church masturbating, praying to Satan
Think I'm crazy 'cause I smoke crack
Live on B with the MAC in a two family flat (fuck it)
Tired of getting hit in the face with a broom
My mom's on her period, my dad's in my room (daddy, no!)
I got ten rocks that I need to get out
I sold them in five minutes, at my own damn house (mom smoke crack)
My poor grandmother, God bless her soul
The bitch got AIDS (aw) she just waiting to die of a cold (hahaha)
There's three things that keep me from being a Nazi:
I'm black, a fag, and my dad's Liberace

No matter how bad the beating, I went to school cheating
My dad whooped my ass at a PTA meeting (no!)
Skipping school I had to have nuts just to do it
Got bored and became truant
When I had the gall to go I just couldn't do it
I was lured into corners by this peer pressure shit
How would you feel if you was held by the tip of a barrel
Getting threatened to get your skin ripped to bone marrow
Bet suburban kids never got rushed for their apparel
Like me, outcast, last to class
First to leave, when the teacher called on me
Best believe I had something up my sleeve

I've been praised and labeled as crazed
My mother was unable to raise me, full of crazy rage
An angry teenager, nothing can change me back
Gangsta rap made me act like a maniac
I was boosting, so influenced by music I used it
As an excuse to do shit, ooh, I was stupid
No one can tell me nothing, hip-hop overwhelmed me
To the point where it had me in a whole 'nother realm
It was like isolating myself was healthy
It felt like we was on welfare but wealthy
Compelled me to excel when school had failed me
Expelled me and when the principal would tell me
I was nothing, and I wouldn't amount to shit
I made my first million and counted it
Now look at, a fucking drop-out that quit
Stupid as shit, rich as fuck, and proud of it
That's why

I don't wanna go to school (we don't need no)
I don't need no education (education)
I don't wanna be like you
I don't wanna save the nation (daddy, no!)
I just wanna live my life (we don't need no)
Every day a celebration (thought control)
One day I'ma leave this world
I'm waitin' for the revelation

I was raised with a rifle and mask
Steadily beating my psychiatrist ass just for asking about my past (bitch)
I was never on that punk shit
Fucking around can get your beloved abducted, smothered in blood quick
You couldn't pay Swift to give a fuck
Was crazy like my father, it must of been poison in that nigga's nut
Far as probation, fuck peeing in cups
I violate at any time, let 'em see the blunt
I grew up steadily masturbating inside of cells
Young as hell, having conversations with myself
You could tell I wasn't lenient, a disobedient
Lynched, I slapped teachers, bitch I'm not reading it
You don't know what dogs go through, a little nigga
Sipping liquor with my old dude, what the fuck you gon' do? (Ha)
I'm quick to curse you, I told my mother that I'ma hurt you
If you ever again mention that curfew

Look, my family ignores me and I don't like that
They don't even listen when I tell them I'll be right back (yeah whatever)
This nice beautiful house ma, it don't mean shit
'Cause you know daddy's a drunk and he don't clean shit
And yesterday he hit me like a grown fucking man
I couldn't stand up to him, I just ducked and ran
I'm sick of this (uh-huh), I wish on Christmas
That I can get a loaded four-fifth and put a fucking end to this (fuck it)
I got no friends and I can't get a bitch
Only thing I have is dirty magazines and sticky fingertips
Nothing to smile about, I'm about to lose my mind
Got me an automatic nine, now I'm wilding out

When school's over, pu-pil are people to shoot through
Kids going cuckoo, with a .22
Since my friend is this new dude, in this high school
Losing his noodle learn that people don't like you
The football jocks is, spitting on him
Popular kids in school is now picking on him
Burn out youngster niggas now hitting on him
And his teacher in his English class keep flipping on him
And now he's grounded with no allowances
For drinking forty ounces, 'cause he was caught by his counselors
And why the fuck I gotta ride the bench coach?
Already got expelled for wearing a trench coat
All I ever seen is (violence, violence)
Told me to keep silent, stop batting my eyelids
It's apparent that my parents weren't parents at all
That's why I blew out my brains in front of the wall (fuck you!)

I don't wanna go to school (we don't need no)
I don't need no education (education)
I don't wanna be like you
I don't wanna save the nation (daddy, no!)
I just wanna live my life (we don't need no)
Every day a celebration (thought control)
One day I'ma leave this world
I'm waitin' for the revelation

Oh!
If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding?
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!


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Revelation Lyrics as written by Denaun M. Porter Andre Young

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  • +1
    General CommentThis is one of the greatest songs i've ever heard in my life. Its got so much meaning and its a very powerful song. This is the song that got me into D12. The end of Kon Artis' verse is powerful because of the emotion he puts into it. Eminem's verse is powerful just because of thw words he uses. "A fucking drop out that quit
    Stupid as shit
    Rich as fuck
    And proud of it"
    Thats a great example.
    I like D12 because their songs are so real and so many teens can relate to them. I think Proof's verse, especially the last couple of lines are the most powerful lines in the song because he shows so much emotion to portray the already powerful words.
    I just wanna know what u guys think about this song.
    eminem_d12_fan01on March 14, 2002   Link
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    General CommentI think this song does have alot of meaning but you shouldnt go listen to the song and drop out of school because you think that you can make 1 million dollas. Stick w/ school its your best bet! I think its Hilarious when Eminem says Stupid as shit
    Rich as fuck
    And proud of it" Cause you hear how everybody says how eminem aint nothing and how they hate.
    Markbon April 25, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General CommentI love this song...it's definately got alot of meaning to it. Mark's right though, you shouldn't just drop out of school after hearing the song expecting to make a shit load of money like em did. Not alot of people have the talent that man's got. My favorite part of this song is when em says, "Compelled me to excel when school had failed me,
    Expelled me, And when the principal would tell me I was nothing, And I wouldn't amount to shit, I made my first million and counted it, Now look it, A fucking drop out that quit, Stupid as shit, Rich as fuck,
    And proud of it.."
    ems#1fanon May 04, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Commenti gotta lotta love for this song, d12 rap differantly to dre, snoop dogg, and pac but there lyrics are incredible
    tupacecfcon May 14, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Commentbest song d12 have ever made and it is the best because the meaning is so rich and true. Proof has the best verse for sure such raw emotion
    kill ur selfon October 14, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Commentits just a very powerfull song. but then again most song's with eminem's lyrics in are
    Judiceon April 08, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General Commentgreat song.....


    about having an ugly life.
    frenzyon April 13, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General Comment^ i agree.


    & i fucking love this song. def. my favorite D12 song.
    blacklistedon May 27, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General CommentWhen I first heard the chorus of this song in my friends car it made me think if "Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall", then once I listened to the whole song I heard the ending of it when Eminem does the same thing Pink Floyd did in that song, hah. This is a song that goes against the whole "Rap doesn't have meaning", this song has alot of meaning. Insanely good song, and I'm an Eminem fan to death, so I love his chorus.
    ^exeF.on August 12, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General CommentI love this song. It's like a modern rap version of "Another Brick in the Wall". It's very creepy and unsettling, and it's full of emotion.
    DeepSouthernon June 01, 2007   Link

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