Flyleaf by Paul Devine

Imagine Paradise as an overflowing library
Spines singing, grinning, bringing
Showing it all to me
Paladins living, lying, quick and dead and contemplating, loving
Preening, failing heroines untIl vast eternity
You can never get a cup of tea quite big enough or a book quite long Enough to really make it long enough
So I feel it

Praise the handheld and tractile
Praise the magic bibliophile

Think before you speak
And read before you think
The world is woven and antique
A shady web of ink
Stringing limb to limb and blood to dainty bone
And divinely iridescent birds

Praise the handheld and tractile
Praise the magic bibliophile
Praise the poets and sages
Praise the knowledge of ages
Praise the moments of darkness
Praise absurdness and tartness
Praise all wild imagination
Praise the untamed creation

• Alternative
• gothic
• grand-guignol
• post-punk
• progressive
• United Kingdom