Paperbacks

TTTO “Paper Moon” from Seanan McGuire’s “Stars Fall Home”

I think that I read too much sci-fi

I’m gonna switch to books that make me cry

I wanna go to a con about romance

But I don’t think I’m gonna get my chance

Though that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped for good

I’ll still read what junk sci-fi I could

So tell my friends that I’m jumping ship

And I’ll just ignore them if they’re giving lip

I don’t want to have to think of rules,

This science stuff for me is much too hard

For robots and these other tools –

I think my mind’s by now already scarred

But just because I wanna turn brain off

I want a veg out read, I want to rest my mind

I don’t think that you should at me so scoff

Don’t think that I am m not as refined

[Chorus]

Paperbacks and romance stuff

Lots and lots and lots of fluff

I can read forever never think too much

And the heroes don’t do more than touch

I don’t want to live so afraid to read

And this sci-fi stuff makes my mind leak out

I think that what I now so need

Is a story that is of love about

I’ll get these books now, ten for five

They’re all the same, on this I thrive

So tell my friends that I’m jumping ship

And I’ll just ignore them if they’re giving lip

[Chorus]

I think that I read too much sci-fi

I’m gonna switch to books that make me cry

I wanna go to a con about romance

But I don’t think I’m gonna get my chance

Though that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped for good

I’ll still read what junk sci-fi I could

So tell my friends that I’m jumping ship

And I’ll just ignore them if they’re giving lip

[Chorus]