Jo Grant - Coldplay - Track 8: A Warning Sign
I missed the good part then I realised
I started looking and the bubble burst
I started looking for excuses
Come on in, I've gotta tell you what a state I'm in
Jo might be all happy and breezy as normal, so no one suspected a thing, but the mock A levels didn't go well at all. It wasn't that she hadn't revised - that was what the night before was for after all.
It was when she opened the first exam paper that she had a feeling of dread that didn't leave her for a long time. She remembered a fair bit and had thought she would be all right. But she didn't even understand the question; it didn't seem to relate to anything they'd learnt at all.
As she poured over the question, pretending to read it carefully, she pondered her options. She couldn't drop out now because she'd promised her parents she would stay at college and finish her A levels. She really didn't want to get stuck in some dead-end job where she never had enough money to do any of the wonderful, amazing things she wanted to do with her life (just as soon as she worked out what they actually were).
So she would just have to do the best she could now, conceal her results from her parents and then work hard for the next few months before the real exams. The trouble was that she wasn't used to working hard at lessons and there were far more interesting things to do than homework.
I started looking and the bubble burst
I started looking for excuses
Come on in, I've gotta tell you what a state I'm in
Jo might be all happy and breezy as normal, so no one suspected a thing, but the mock A levels didn't go well at all. It wasn't that she hadn't revised - that was what the night before was for after all.
It was when she opened the first exam paper that she had a feeling of dread that didn't leave her for a long time. She remembered a fair bit and had thought she would be all right. But she didn't even understand the question; it didn't seem to relate to anything they'd learnt at all.
As she poured over the question, pretending to read it carefully, she pondered her options. She couldn't drop out now because she'd promised her parents she would stay at college and finish her A levels. She really didn't want to get stuck in some dead-end job where she never had enough money to do any of the wonderful, amazing things she wanted to do with her life (just as soon as she worked out what they actually were).
So she would just have to do the best she could now, conceal her results from her parents and then work hard for the next few months before the real exams. The trouble was that she wasn't used to working hard at lessons and there were far more interesting things to do than homework.