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Post or Perish
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Intro
Roll call. Eyes up. Post or perish, obviously.
Verse 1
Enrolled on a Tuesday off a nineteen-ninety-nine ad, Stream U campus is a group chat and a notebook app. Orientation packet say the lanyard is your name, follower count printed where the student number stamp. Professor washed in '23, still sellin' the blueprint, Dean walked in, said the only failing grade is silence, I posted through a panic on the four forty-one at 12:09.
Pre-chorus
Thumb hover on the button, jaw tight, the buffer wheel spinnin' like it's grading me tonight, they said don't think, just upload
Chorus
Post or perish, that's the motto on the wall, on the wall Stream U, Stream U, freshman orientation hall Pay your tuition in the hours that you'll never get back, GPA is engagement and they grade you on the app. Post or perish, raise the lanyard to the light, Class of never graduate, we studyin' the likes tonight.
Post-chorus
Post or perish, clock in, clock in, Post or perish, the numbers always listenin'.
Verse 2
Semester two, I'm fluent in the parasocial, DMs call me family, I never met a single soul. Major in Clip Farming, minor in the slow collapse, Sheridan to Sunrise just to film a thirty-second lap. Tuition due again, I paid that in my sleep, four-dollar station coffee and a deadline at the redline. Ran the workflow on myself, fed it every word I bled, it gave me back my own voice, cleaner, and a little dead.
Pre-chorus
Thumb hover on the button, jaw tight, they said don't blink, just upload
Chorus
Post or perish, that's the motto on the wall, on the wall Stream U, Stream U, freshman orientation hall Pay your tuition in the hours that you'll never get back, GPA is engagement and they grade you on the app. Post or perish, raise the lanyard to the light, Class of never graduate, we studyin' the likes tonight.
Post-chorus
Post or perish, clock in, clock in, Post or perish, the numbers always listenin'.
Verse 3
Office hours, the Dean won't look up from the feed, growth is just a graph that you feed until you bleed, Kids who really win, they skip the lecture, go quiet, park out by the turnpike, leave the badge under the seat. got a 4.0 in performin' that I'm fine and that I'm calm. Buffer, buffer, bufferin', the signal start to stutter, my own sentence cut in half and I forgot the
Bridge
Found the dropout forms in a strip mall off of Plantation, they don't mail you a diploma, they just hand you back your patience. Dean said silence is a failing grade, I think that's the one I'm chasin', logged off for a Sunday and the quiet wasn't vacant.
Verse 4
Everybody majorin' in bein' seen, nobody alright. Broward to Dade, same syllabus, same fee, sellin' the hunger that they planted as a seed.
Verse 5
I'm not droppin' out, I'm just movin' off the grid a little, keep the lanyard in a drawer where the laminate go brittle. Class of never, but I learned the one thing they don't teach: the bell don't ring for you, you ring it, then you breathe.
Pre-chorus
Thumb off of the button, jaw loose, let the buffer wheel spin, I ain't waitin' for the proof, nobody gradin' me tonight
Chorus
Post or perish, that was the motto on the wall, on the wall Stream U, Stream U, I'm walkin' out the lecture hall Spent my whole tuition on the hours I won't get back, the GPA was engagement til the day I closed the app. Post or perish, I hung the lanyard up to dry, silence was a failing grade, now it's the only one I passed tonight.
Post-chorus
Clock in, clock in, The numbers always listenin'. Post or perish, Nobody's perfect.
Outro
Nobody answered. Good.
Inside the recording
Roll call. Eyes up. Post or perish, obviously.
Thumb hover on the button, jaw tight, the buffer wheel spinnin' like it's grading me tonight,
Nobody answered. Good.
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Song record
Published facts.
- Release date of this source
- July 10, 2026
- This source on YouTube · Eastern
- July 9, 2026
- Playlist addition · Eastern
- July 10, 2026
- Duration
- 4:50
- YouTube views
- 40
- Catalog source video ID
- toohowwrDPg
Original Music Diary
Where this song entered the catalog.
- Release type
- Single
- Date added
- June 13, 2026
- Status
- live