Monday, October 12, 2015

"What I'm Reading Now"

This song isn’t really about reading at all, but I’m still going to use it as an excuse to post a couple of pictures of the results of two recent shopping sprees. These all came from two of our favorite bookstores in Iowa City: The Haunted Bookshop and Prairie lights Bookstore. Hitomi and I used to love browsing at all the bookstore in the Boston area. Sadly, some of them are no more. 

What I'm Reading Now

© 1992 Brian Hutzell

They accused me of not knowing what's going on
Told me I had no clue
Said I was hiding in a shell
Wrapped up in a silk cocoon

What they didn't know: the part about you
What they didn't see: the part about me
And the fact that now I'm free

If they could see what I'm reading now
What has happened to allow me to read what I'm reading now

We broke up, and I have lots of free time
Unless I constantly read, I can't control my mind
And it turns to you
And I freak out
Gotta forget about you
Get a new life now
And new books to read in new languages
Pages of stuff I'll absorb like an undiscriminating sponge
Only to forget it a week after I'm done

It appears I'm crawling in a hole
But that's only part of the story
There is a reason for what I do
And my library likes it too

What they didn't know: the part about you
What they didn't see: the part about me
And the fact that now I'm free

If they could see what I'm reading now
What has happened to allow me to read what I'm reading now

If they could see what I'm reading now
What has happened to allow me to read what I'm reading now





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