I identify totally with this song.
When you're the "smart one" in school, doing everything so effortlessly, the teachers stop watching or caring what you're doing, and you start slacking off because you can get away with it.
(I didn't learn to read music until I'd been playing the violin for three years because I could just hear a song once and then play it by ear.)
When everything in school is easy and you never have to work hard to do well, you don't end up developing as much of a work ethic and have to struggle with that for the rest of your life. So you end up with all this potential that you never do anything with. It's extremely frustrating and feels like you've screwed up your life just by being who and what you are.
I identify totally with this song. When you're the "smart one" in school, doing everything so effortlessly, the teachers stop watching or caring what you're doing, and you start slacking off because you can get away with it.
(I didn't learn to read music until I'd been playing the violin for three years because I could just hear a song once and then play it by ear.)
When everything in school is easy and you never have to work hard to do well, you don't end up developing as much of a work ethic and have to struggle with that for the rest of your life. So you end up with all this potential that you never do anything with. It's extremely frustrating and feels like you've screwed up your life just by being who and what you are.