Look What They've Done to My Song Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ss21274 

Cover art for Look What They've Done to My Song lyrics by Melanie Safka

It always reminded me of the public so-called "school/education" system and its so-called "teachers" when I was an execptionally bright but dirt poor kid in the 80s.

The only thing(s) that I,the student/artist, could get half-right had to be damaged or even destroyed by "teachers" because a poor kid and outsider with a promising mind was just too much of an upset to their little apple cart. And of course the "teachers" and later so-called "guidance counselors" had to pick my mind and make me believe I wasn't normal, plus make me feel completely awful about my early-developing body until I believed I was ugly and worthless, so that I wouldn't grow up to question their failure of a system.

Just my interpretation.

My Interpretation