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The alarm goes off
I press snooze
The battle of the bed is one i know,
I am always going to lose

I have always been told be early to bed, early to rise
But whoever did that, did he ever win any prize?
I know the sun's out, par hui subah to kya?
Let me sleep a little more, after all it's still night in america...

And besides college just reopens today,
Even the teachers would be  in no mood to teach,
And if at all they are,
Then it's best that we're out of reach.

And we've got better things to do
Durga's coffee, chadralok ki chai,buddies long estranged
And we've bunked the first week, for the last three years,
No reason that now we should change.

But for all good things, as they say..  
There is always  a heavy price to pay,
The attendance dips faster than Tom Cruise's career graph,
And reality hits harder than the backhand of Steffi Graf.

So now here i am sitting through every lecture,
And it drags on for so long,
I'm sure by the time it ends,
Even Osama would be captured.
And even as a voice inside, tells me to pay attention,
I'm falling into so many levels of sleep,
I suspect i am under "INCEPTION"

Months fly by, and it keeps getting worse,
Assignments and write ups, oh what a curse!
And add to that the tests to boot,
Does anyone have a gun?
i know some people i'd like to shoot.

And then  come the DARK AGES
When you dream you're locked in paper cages,
And u sit and write day and night,
Piles of files, just infinite.
It comes to haunt every six months,
This  nightmare called  "SUB-MISSIONS"

And once the pain in your hands has reached the stars,
And you've fractured a few bones in your arms,
For checking, you walk to the teachers desk,
and thats when you realize it ain't over yet.

For all the torture we've put our teacher through
Now is the time we are going to pay,
As that voice deep inside remarks,
"Every dog has his day".

And so says the devil in delight,
Whats this rubbish? This ain't right...
And i stare in horror as the teacher crosses it all out,
He smiles and says, go back and rewrite.

Somehow if you've survived all that,
It's time to get insomniac,
Orals and pracs ain't no piece of cake,
And when you know your only going to pass with the teachers grace,
It helps to look a little sleep depraved.

Exams are round the corner,
Just 2 days to spare,
But guess where i am now?
I'm sitting at E-Square.

The film starts to roll,
A voice inside me growls,
"You know you should be studying" i hear it hiss
But the film features Angelina i argue, how could i ever miss?

But they do catch up......my mis-deeds
Exactly on the exam eve,
The mayhem then reaches climax,
As you brain goes under hijack.

The books simply don't make any sense,
Hours go by, and i am still staring at the same sentence,
In desperation i turn to my notes,
Hoping against hope, they would be the antidote.

I soon realize the task's gonna be quite daunting,
As I try to decode my own handwriting.
And the voice now i hear again, mocking at me,
"Ahh,  trying to read your notes i see,
I don't want to put you in fright,
But it would be easier to learn chinese in a night"  .

Somethings in life never change,
I wonder if its happened to you, its strange.
You know when  you do the whole race and crash on the last lap?
Like when i read the first question and go "OH CRAP"


But luckily the torture does get over,
The exams one day do disappear.
So open the booze,
And go to snooze,
Its time for party, and hi-five's
Another semester gone, and mom " Yeah i'm still ALIVE"

But of course, there's that little bit of snag,
Can't do without that scallywag,
When a piece of paper will seal our fate...
Revenge for all the trees we felled?
They call it 'Results', and this time i don't joke,
Translated it means, HOROR-SCOPE

As I stand in line, waiting for the execution,
Praying for divine intervention,
With every step,my temperature rises one fahrenheit,
My heart beating so hard, you can hear it for a mile,
And if anything could possibly make it worse,
I hear that voice again , now sure i am cursed,
It whispers in my ear...
"I know what  you did all semester,
I know what you did last semester"