Enter The O

Enter The O (a parody of American Pie)
Faith Sim (originally performed by Don McLean)

A long, long, time ago...
I can still remember

How O-levels seemed so far away.

And so I crapped and played and slacked,

Forgetting lost time would never come back.

And maybe maybe study another day.

When it was to come, I got sober.

But that was real late, it was October.

Bad news on the sixteenth;

I'd a bout of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)

I can't remember my formulae and my

Reactivity series.

But something's hurtin' me real deep

The fact, I'm not prepared.

So bye-bye halcyon days goodbye,

Have my textbooks and my flash cards

and all my study guides

And we'll all go home and study thru the night,

'cos we want six points for L1R5.

We need six points for L1R5.

I need to know where's all the love,

I need more faith in God above,

Internalising techniques, I need too.

And do you believe in pig's brain soup?

Chicken essence, things that taste like poop.

And can you teach me how to write argumentatives?

Well I don't know my plane geometry

And on essays I'm still a bit fuzzy

But differentiation's good,

Compo depends on my mood.

I was a happy teenage manga fan

With a Bleach kimono, tempura in the pan,

But I knew I had to place a ban

The day the comp was unplugged.

I started singin',

Bye bye halcyon days goodbye,
Have my textbooks and my flash cards
and all my study guides
And we'll all go home and study thru the night,
'cos we want six points for L1R5.
We need six points for L1R5.

Now for ten years I've been in this system

All the mugging I've done, I really can't list 'em,

But that's not how it used to be.

When we ran around in the local park

As for homework we didn't give a lark

And we had no idea what the heck the O's were.

Oh and while we mug from moon to sun,

Forget our juniors're havin' fun,

We'll finish our ordeal,

When we're done we'll have a meal!

And while we practice our trigonometry,

Remember we're doing this for you and me.

And in twenty-something days we'll all be free

To do whatever we want.

We'll stop singing

Bye-bye halcyon days goodbye,
Have my textbooks and my flash cards
and all my study guides
And we'll all go home and study thru the night,
'cos we want six points for L1R5.
We need six points for L1R5.

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.

We'll run to our books where we'll take shelter,

Eight points high and falling fast.

Will it wind up six, as others have.

We're no longer trying for just a pass,

In history our names will be cast.

We'll try not to make our teachers fume

While in the distance danger looms.

For now we just can't dance,

But in a while we'll get the chance!

For now we need to take the field;

We gotta learn to refuse to yield.

Do you recall what was revealed

The days we were in class?

Now we're still singing

Bye-bye halcyon days goodbye,

Have my textbooks and my flash cards

and all my study guides

And we'll all go home and study thru the night,

'cos we want six points for L1R5.

We need six points for L1R5.

Oh, and there we'll be all in one place,

The Magnificent Class in one space

With no time left to start again.

So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!

Just don't sit on a candlestick

Cause if you get burnt your life might end.

To heck with the fact we have no prom

Just sit at home and learn your LORMS.

When it's over we'll just smile

We'll be free for quite a while.

And as we study long into the night

We need to fight and fight and fight,

We won't let Satan laugh with delight

The day we get our marks

Our juniors' singing

Bye-bye halcyon days goodbye,
Have my textbooks and my flash cards
and all my study guides
And we'll all go home and study thru the night,
'cos we want six points for L1R5.
We need six points for L1R5.

Stop thinkin' about your Monday blues

or worryin' about your new school shoes,

We need to smile when we walk away.

We'll go down to the exam hall.

Where we'll face the music like before,

And after that we'll call it a day.

And in the streets: we'll go and scream,

We'll laugh our laughs, and dream our dreams.

We'll relish our words spoken;

The silence finally broken.

And the things you wanna do the most:

Maybe hold a party, be the host,

To all our juniors we shall boast

The day we finish off.

But for now
Bye-bye halcyon days goodbye,

Have my textbooks and my flash cards

and all my study guides

And we'll all go home and study thru the night,

'cos we want six points for L1R5.

We need six points for L1R5.

(In four weeks!)

It's not us singin'
Bye-bye halcyon days goodbye,

Have my textbooks and my flash cards

and all my study guides

And we'll all go home and study thru the night,

'cos we need six points for L1R5.