Librarian

Album: Evil Urges (2008)
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  • Walk across the courtyard, towards the library
    I can hear the insects buzz and the leaves 'neath my feet

    Ramble up the stairwell, into the hall of books
    Since we got the interweb these hardly get used

    Duck into the men's room, combing through my hair
    When god gave us mirrors he had no idea

    Looking for a lesson in the periodicals
    There I spy you listening to the AM radio

    Karen of the carpenters, singing in the rain
    Another lovely victim of the mirror's evil way

    It's not like you're not trying, with a pencil in your hair
    To defy the beauty the good lord put in there

    Simple little bookworm, buried underneath
    Is the sexiest librarian
    Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me

    So I watch you thru the bookcase, imagining a scene
    You and I at dinner, spending time, then to sleep

    And what then would I say to you, lying there in bed?
    These words, with a kiss, I would plant in your head

    "What is it inside our heads that makes us do the opposite?
    Makes us do the opposite of what's right for us?
    Cause everything'd be great, and everything'd be good
    If everybody gave like everybody could"

    Sweetest little bookworm
    Hidden underneath
    Is the sexiest librarian
    Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me
    Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me

    Simple little beauty, heaven in your breath
    The simplest of pleasures, the world at it's best Writer/s: James Edward Olliges Jr.
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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