Apehead's brother wants to beat up Paul

The boys have gone to watch

Some of the girls are down at the mall

Justine's got cherry cola and scotch

Later on it's everyone around to Beck's

Her parents are away in New York

Sara, well, she just can't bear

The stupidity, the boredom, the grind

She stays at school so that she can hear

The sound of the life of the mind

.

And it's noisy up there

It rocks me like a mother

Rosa Parks and DNA

Joan of Arc and JFK

But it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

.

Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

.

She's cut 'em all out of her social circle

Won't introduce them to Lincoln or Frost

Doesn't want to let them get to know Keats or Studs Terkel

They'll never know what they have lost

But Sara, well, she just can't bear

The stupidity, the boredom, the grind

She stays at school so that she can hear

The sound of the life of the mind

.

And it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

Copernicus and Fortune's Wheel

Plato, Glenn Gould, and the New Deal

And it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

.

Sara already knows pretty soon she'll be leaving

Well, she's hoovered up whatever she can find

But she doesn't want to hear about

Pregnancies, foam fights, TV, take-outs, have ***, weddings

The sound of the life she'll leave behind

.

Yeah, it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Oh, oh, oh

And it's noisy up there

(Noisy up there)

It rocks me like a mother

Oh, ohh, oh, ohh

Oh, oh, oh