Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Books (Anti- What Have You), artist - Hotel Books. Album song Everything We Could Have Done Differently, in the genre
Date of issue: 08.02.2015
Record label: Tunecore
Song language: English
Books (Anti- What Have You) |
Television dials completely out of style, and no one’s too sure if they work. |
Frayed wires hanging above the remains of hopeful mice |
Who took a roll of the dice |
And tried to nest on top of that box that once projected murmurs of wars. |
Books stacked on books, water stains mixing with the artwork dye. |
Atop the loft of literature there for looks, sits Catcher In the Rye. |
A story built the same year as this house. |
A classic build with a vintage tone, but no proof that this house was ever a |
home. |
Books stacked on books in a cart table that once hosted Monday night rook, |
A cold neighbor of piles of dust, evidence of rust, a pinnacle for broken trust. |
Books stacked on books by five frozen beings seated at the kitchen nook. |
Newspapers that block the faces of what are assumed to be parents |
But it’s apparent there’s no connection, |
Just existence in the correlation between DNA and similar genetics. |
Familiar faces to each other but no souls connected, |
No wires intertwine just covered by the same physical canopy. |
Genetics may define similarities, but don’t always define a family. |
With books stacked on books, disrepairing, lack of emotional continuity. |
The stereotypical story of drones in a thriving society. |
Missing out on the proclamation that they need to team up |
Because deeper recession is always coming. |
Books stacked on books, sharing stories of families like these, |
Not rejoicing in the fact that we aren’t struggling, or are we? |
With boys from war arriving home, |
Missionaries being killed with no access to the phone. |
Heartlets selling their innocence to put meat on their bones. |
A fallen union now a broken home, |
The similarities to the brokeness overseas in this cold family |
Is the fact that just like those broken hearts, |
Our houses are empty and the lack of love does not discriminate against the |
rich or the wealthy. |
Brokeness affects all who lack the love of a family. |
And maybe mom and dad decided to leave you alone |
But you have family that want you to sit on the right side of a beautiful throne |
'Cause you don’t deserve to live empty. |