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"I Just Can't Break Until Spring"
Written by Angela Kuo (axk23@psu.edu)
To the tune of "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" from _The Lion King_
  Lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Elton John.
Copyright: 1996. Originally posted 2/28/96.
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"I Just Can't Break Until Spring"

[Scene: a college campus]

STUDENT #1
My social life's gone down the drain,
My date broke up with me.

STUDENT #2
Well, I'm stuck in lab eight hours straight--
I reek of chemistry!

STUDENT #3
I'm taking extra jobs at night
To pay my college loan.
My stress is up, my grades are down--
I'm working to the bone!

STUDENT #4
Tuition hikes are gonna cause a sting!

ALL STUDENTS
Oh, I just can't break until spring!

PROFESSOR [spoken]
You've got a rather long way to go till graduation, if you think--

[At the library, then the bookstore]

STUDENTS
Always reading physics,
Always reading Shakespeare,
Always buying Cliffs Notes,
What's this book's price here? (Not nice, dear!)

CASHIER [ringing up one book]
Sixty bucks or more you'll pay...

STUDENT [spoken]
Well, that's definitely out of the--

CASHIER [shrugs]
That's what textbooks cost today!

[At the computer lab, every single computer is taken with at least a
dozen students waiting in line for a machine]

STUDENT #1
I think our money's wasted so:
I'd even call it theft!

STUDENT #2
Fees are on the rise
Though there are no computers left!

STUDENT #3 [noticing several broken computers]
If this is where the quality is headed,
Count me out!
"Out of service," "Out of order"--AAH!
I wouldn't hang about!
I really ought to think of transferring...

ALL STUDENTS
Oh, I just can't break until spring!

[Bleary-eyed students who were up till 3:00 AM sit in the classroom
as the professor prepares to hand out an exam]

STUDENTS
Gotta live on junk food,
Got another big test,
Gotta live on caffeine--
Can't we take a quick rest?

PROFESSOR [spoken]
Not yet!

STUDENTS
With ev'ry student's courseload in full swing,
With zero time to finish everything,
There's gonna be one thought to which we cling:
Oh, I just can't break until spring!
Oh, I just can't break until spring!
Oh, I just can't break...until spring!

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