Leatherface - Books lyrics

rate me

And I have a pot full of coins and above it hangs a picture<br />

Of a brother and a sister there's been a wedding<br />

Black painted floorboards and a stench like wet cardboard<br />

This is the dead smell of another winter<br />

And I don't want to be bound up like books<br />

I don't want to be a sad ornament of a place<br />

They are bound up like books I don't want to be a picture frame<br />

A house full of things some of which they hadn't seen<br />

Since they bought the sodding things in 1980 something<br />

If only their place had a little more space<br />

And a little less waste that would be then something<br />

If only their house looked like those in books<br />

If only their cupboards didn't look like Mother Hubbards<br />

And I don't want to be bound up like books<br />

I don't want to be a sad ornament of her place<br />

They are bound up like books I don't want to be the picture frame<br />

No book in this house went unread<br />

An old cup an old plate and in this house<br />

Absolutely everything seems out of place<br />

Out of place there were pictures on the walls<br />

Just to hide the faults there were pictures on walls<br />

And a friendly old ghost that'll haunt me 'till the day<br />

That I die I have a pot full of coins and<br />

Above it hangs a picture of a brother and a sister there's *wedding* and<br />

Black painted floorboards and a stench like wet cardboard<br />

This is the dead smell of another winter<br />

Bound up like books