There’s A Fee (by Adam)

From the Hall of the dark

To the History of Art

There’s a fee

 

Students in financial holes

All the lecturers are bores

There’s a fee

 

It’s the way the tests are passed

Look at papers from the past

There’s a fee

 

Oh my neighbour is a beast

Of them all I like her least

There’s a fee

 

From the month to the week

The kitchen roof has a leak

There’s a fee

 

From the left to the right

Woken up in the night

There’s a fee

 

From the wardens of the Hall

To the ones who make the call

There’s a fee

 

She’s sleep-wrecking with the damned

Mere weeks from the exams

There’s a fee

 

We’re all waking in the night

They don’t know wrong from right

It’s so unfair

The promise of a greater hate

Once again we’re kept up late

We just want some quiet peace

 

We are many millions more

We have all been here before

There’s a fee

 

We’ve come so far so fast

From first year it’s now our last

There’s a fee

 

From the three hour exams

To the essays of the bland

There’s a fee

 

Hopes are towers in the skies

Dreams are shattered in the night

There’s a fee

 

It started rising round the world

Like any other con

To start a day

The promise of value for cash

It’s all a load of trash

Value’s gone without a trace….