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Sour Guy - Gradin' All Day

from Group Picture Vol. 7 by Making New Enemies

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Sour Guy - Well this has to be the absolute best song ever written about a grad student grading papers. While this might seem like a simple acoustic song, it’s really impressive the way Kris Schobert can clearly express the frustration of spending a whole day grading papers of kids who did not at all learn the subject matter (physics!) that he so passionately tried to teach to them. Love you, Kris. I would love to take your class and I wouldn’t be on my phone!

Authors note: Written while mentally fried after grading hundreds of exams most students did poorly on. As their teacher, you tried your best to make the material clear and exciting for your students. But after this draining day, you realize you simply didn’t get through to them.

Four hundred final exams,
Espresso, purple pen in my hand.
This ain’t glamorous,
The desert road ahead of us.

Flippin’ through piles of stress.
Slashin’ through desperate attempts.
Someone drew me a smiley face,
I wrote the zero then turned the page…

Gradin’ all day,
Gradin’ all day,
Gradin’ all day,
Come on, come on.
Gradin’ all day.

You see for me, every equation is a puzzle piece. And I
Hate to see you try to mash ‘em all together just to get up and leave.
Maybe it's me… I tried to pass on my passion, but it wasn’t received.
And it stings real deep to know you’ll walk away with a sour taste for the beauty you may never see,
And it was up to me.

Gradin’ all day,
Gradin’ all day.
I explained it to you more than four times,
But you were looking down where your phone hides.
Come on, come on.
Gradin’ all day,
Gradin’ all day.

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from Group Picture Vol. 7, released December 25, 2017

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