Xtc - Books Are Burning Lyrics
Books are burningIn the main square, and I saw thereThe first eating the textBooks are burningIn the still airAnd you know where they burn booksPeople are nextI believe the printed word should be forgivenDoesnt matter what it saidWisdom hotline from the dead back to the livingKey to the larder for your heart and headBooks are burningIn our own town, watch us turn roundAnd cast our glances elsewhereBooks are burningIn the playgroundSmell of burnt book is not unlike human hairI believe the printed word is more than sacredBeyond the gauge of good or badThe human right to let your soul fly free and *****Above the violence of the fearful and sadThe church of matchesAnoints in ignorance with gasolineThe church of matchesGrows fat by breathing in the smoke of dreamsIts quite obsceneBooks are burningMore each day now, and I pray nowYou boys will tire of these gamesBooks are burningI hope somehow, this will allowA phoenix up from the flames
