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Optimus (Not the Transformer)

from 52 in 2012 by The Battling Frogs

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This is another one about a book. I'll let you guess which one.

"Can you imagine how lucid our thoughts will be once we've liberated them from the arts? Once we've swept our soiled brains clean of senseless dross? Can you imagine how much more time we'll be able to spend on the things that really matter in life? No, of course you can't. You're an *author*."

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I'm starting to believe there is no one I can trust in this town.
And I don't understand why everyone I've meet has let me down.
My godfather's dead, I came here looking for a way to cope.
But this confounded city has robbed me of my final shred of hope.

But you can't take my faith in books.
No you can't take away my final sacred place.
No you can't take my faith in books.
Not even if you bastards poison every page
No you can't take my faith in books
You couldn't do that if you burned every library down.
No you can't take, my faith, in books.

I'm starting to believe this masterpiece will be the death of me
And it inspires fear, in the eyes of anyone who sees, it.
Why they are afraid of such pure beauty I will never understand.
Now I'm stuck here in these wretched caves and this is getting out of hand..

But you can't take my faith in books.
No you can't take away my final sacred place.
No you can't take my faith in books.
Not even if you bastards poison every page
No you can't take my faith in books
You couldn't do that if you burned every library down.
No you can't take, my faith, in books.

How can you live with yourself with such a goal?
How can you wish to rid the world of soul?
You're doomed to failure in your twisted ways.
No matter what, something always remains.

Cos you can't take our faith in books
No you can't take away our final sacred place.
No you can't take our faith in books.
Not even if you bastards poison every page.
No you can't take our faith in books.
You couldn't do that if you burned every library down.
No you can't take, our faith-
I'm telling you, I'll read until you strike me down.
No you can't take, our faith, in books

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from 52 in 2012, track released April 15, 2012
Vocals and (amplified) baritone ukulele by Jamie Lucock.

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The Battling Frogs Hampshire, UK

Songwriter, philosopher, worrier, friend, lover, genderpunk, worrier. Likes cheese far too much.

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