Rap Parke Ya got Books

 well you been singin in the company of the corporate wanna say I

but the names and the faces that you answered to - they died

dont  think they lasted 21 nights before the last one left

Well  you're writing your letters in your quote marke best -

You got your folding bookshelves and your karl marx tests

but you know you're only half alive because of the old mans vest

you remember every novel like it was cool to be cruel to be hip

but you got no game shot dice, you cant roll them round your top lip

and the toffee and the coffee  and all of the party wines

tell you that no-one is late or on time. you got competition after repetition,

adventure before dementia., there's no one to censure your shelves and freedom

is just the price you paid for the chains you refuse, 

you go to bookfairs.

and you sell rare science fiction to guys who hate folds and creases and

as they wax their diseases they got ambition, you got cred. It's better

than it seems to be dead, so you fill up that golf and you roll the dice

and I don't say nothing I know about your life. You got heart -

(and your genetics are rather splendid so forever's not so long

let's listen to Russ Abbot for atmosphere -

 and put on a party song)

then you go in you're own way

Ya got BOOKS.

yeah

Ya got BOOKS

yeah

And good looks.

yeah

Good Luck books.

longevity

there's sanity

in levity

but when u show that brevity

ya got books.