Radio Playtime Pupil’s Teacher’s Pet

Ely Buendia is riding high so once again with Pupil’s “Teacher’s Pet” garnering massive playtime on primetime radio. It’s on KLITE Manila; they’ve been playing it all so often and that makes it tops of the charts, years after it was officially released .

Just when we thought we can count Pupil as just another Eraserhead spin-off, the band lurches back with this ditty that has got not only great sound and melody, but really, really clever lyrics, one that only Ely Buendia could spew out and no one else, at least in the local music scene. It’s so original that way.

Consider how Ely sang in “Teacher’s Pet”: “You are a natural selection, a full-proof rule without exception. Let me indoctrinate you, while you indoctrinate me.”

That’s really awesome lyric making.

And the song itself sound so much like a Billboard charter, only if we don’t easily recognize that it’s Ely singing a catchy ditty all along.

Maybe I’ll just publish the entire lyrics for you to browse. Hope I won’t go copyright violating for this.

Teacher’s Pet by Pupil

You could be making the grade

You could be making the grade

Don’t let your memory fade

Stop cramming when the meter starts running

[Chorus]

Here kitty, kitty

You’re looking so pretty

But I ain’t got time to know

Who’s coming tonight

I repeat, complete the equation

You plus me is a sure bet

Don’t you know it’s good to be the

Teacher’s pet

When I saw you lurching

Like a sea urchin

I knew I had to make good

Like a good boy should

‘Cause you got me thinkin’

You got me thinkin’

You are a natural selection

A full-proof rule without exception

Let me indoctrinate you

While you indoctrinate me

On the ways of the world

You are my favorite girl

(Repeat Chorus)

Teacher’s pet

Teacher’s pet

You could be making the grade

We’re jamming

Gonna hit the ground running

Here kitty, kitty

You’re looking so pretty

But I ain’t got time to know

Who’s coming tonight

I repeat, complete the equation

You plus me is a sure bet

Don’t you know it’s good to be the

Here kitty, kitty

You’re looking so pretty

But I ain’t got time to know

Who’s coming tonight

I repeat, complete the equation

You plus me is a sure bet

Don’t you know

Don’t you know

Who’s coming (6x)

Don’t you know it’s good to be the

Teacher’s pet

Teacher’s pet

Teacher’s pet

Teacher’s pet