Librarian - My Morning Jacket

Walk across the courtyard, towards the library

I can hear the insects buzz and the leaves 'neath my feet

Ramble up the stairwell into the hall of books

Since we got the interweb, these hardly get used

Duck into the men’s room, combing through my hair

When God gave us mirrors, he had no idea

Looking for a lesson in the periodicals

There, I spy you listening to the AM radio

Karen of The Carpenters, singing in the rain

Another lovely victim of the mirror’s evil way

It’s not like you’re not trying, with a pencil in your hair

To defy the beauty the good Lord put in there

Simple little bookworm

Buried underneath

Is the sexiest librarian

Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me

So, I watch you through the bookcase, imagining a scene

You and I had dinner, spending time, then you sleep

And what then would I say to you, lying there in bed?

These words with a kiss I would plant in your head

What is it inside our heads that makes us do the opposite?

Makes us do the opposite of what’s right for us

Cause everything’d be great, and everything’d be good

If everybody gave like everybody could

Sweetest little bookworm

Hidden underneath

Is the sexiest librarian

Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me

Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me

Simple little beauty, heaven in your breath

Simplest of pleasures, the world at its best