The Book I Read

(The book) I'm writing about

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(The book) I'm writing about

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(The book) I'm writing about

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I'm writing about the book I read (The book I read, the book I read)

I have to sing about the book I've read (The book I read, the book I read)

I'm embarrassed to admit it (The book I read, the book I read)

It hit the soft spot in my heart (The book I read)

When I found you wrote the book, I read it (The book I read, the book I read)

(The book I read)

(The book I read, the book I read)

So take my shoulders as they touch your arms

I've got little cold chills

But I feel alright

The book I read was in your eyes

The autobiography of one soul

The miseducation of hard rhythm, of language

Braille on the body traversing the imagination

Each one of us is a book to read

Music between the lines, a kind of love affair

To be banned and revolutionary

Snuck beneath tables, smuggled in bags beneath eyelids

Hymns and prayers, recipes and riddles from hand to mind

The book as gun

As source material

As witness, as testimonial, as journey

The people's tribune syllables walking into the eye

The rhythm of runaways

Study the past to learn the attitude of a future

The ignorance of knowing

How a sound stretches into a word built into a line

And then an image moving in the mind

Speaking in tongues, I couldn't stop reading the book I read

Was in your eyes

Oh, I'm living in the future

I feel wonderful, I'm tipping over

Backwards, I'm so ambitious

I'm looking back

I'm running, running, running, running, running

I'm running a race

And you're the book I've read

So feel my fingers

As they touch your arms

I'm spinning, I'm spinning around, but I feel alright

The book I read was in your eyes

Your eyes are a book I've read

I'm reading

I'm reading you

I'm reading your eyes

The book I've read

(The book I read)

I'm writing about the book

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