by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021)
No Good
Language: English
What did you learn in school today? I learned that I'm no good. Who told you that? The teacher. Don't believe it! Don't believe it. If I can't believe the teacher, why do I have to go to school? Because if you don't, I will be punished. Isn't there a place where we can live where I don't have to go to school, and you will not be punished? No. Then the world is no good. Tell that to the teacher.
Line breaks and capitalization are formatted arbitrarily. The score in which the text appears is distributed under a Performance Restricted Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 license.
Text Authorship:
- by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021), written 2014
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021), "No Good", 2014 [ speaking pianist ], from Dear Diary, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2020-02-22
Line count: 15
Word count: 81