Name: Lazy Contrition - Spirit of the Library
Duration: P00H04M40S
Description: A beautiful ballad to a Bodleian boo.

Lazy Contrition - Spirit of the Library

from Irreloquent by Stephen Wordsmith

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A beautiful ballad to a Bodleian boo.

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She's drop dead gorgeous, literally
And she reads over my shoulder
But she gets a bit frustrated when I turn the page too soon

Her gaze is now all transparent
She's still got that little smoulder
And a beauty that could make the most intrepid fellow swoon

And she spends her afterlife among the shelves, all getting lost in
Dostoyevsky, Dahl and Dickinson, and Asimov and Austen

CHORUS
She's the spirit of the library, where minds together mingle
She whispers 'choose me something I might find a little chewy'
My hand falls on the spine, I feel my own is all a-tingle
And every time I think of her, my eyes start getting Dewey

She was once a bright-eyed undergrad
Reading history at Oxford
Pulling pints and pulling boys and pulling multiple all-nighters

Undergraduate at 20
She walked the stage at 21
But at 22 she had a brush with viral meningitis

Now her body lies at rest, at Highgate cemetery interred
While her spectre is inspecting masterworks and hanging on each word

CHORUS

She was a minstrel, a late night arrest
My feels I fear are becoming transparent
She's late with no late fees, a well-bred undead
Unliving and unusually well-read

CHORUS

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from Irreloquent, released September 22, 2022
Lyrics by Stephen Wort
Composition, Fender Tele, Aria Bass, Roland E drums, and vocals by Richard Shakespeare (lazycontrition.bandcamp.com/community)
Mastered by Thomas Meidell

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