Spread Them Book Cheeks (A Song For Readers) Lyrics

Alright up against the wall

What'd I do? What'd I do?

Have you ever killed a mockingbird?

What? No I don't think so I

What do you know about Toni Morrison?

I don't know him I swear

Ain't I a woman? Well son?

Ain't I a woman?

I don't know what any of this means

Yeah I thought so

You need to spread 'em right now

Spread what?

Spread them book cheeks

Ay we spreading book cheeks

Ay, ay we spreading book cheeks

A far away land's where it took me

Can't wait to spread them book cheeks

Ay we spreading book cheeks

Bing bong that's a bell in the hook see

Might find a path to how it should be

So we spread them book cheeks

This for the kids from Florida

Whose books thrown out in the corridors

They banned Ms. Hannah so monsieur

DeSantis can we have a word with ya? (shh!)

Y'all know I be doing the most

When I get some new Ta-Nehisi Coates

Got Sally Morgan for the Aussie blokes

And I thank the Lorde for Ms. Audrey's quotes

Couldn't care less what y'all starting

I'm into this George R.R. Martin

The Manifesto leaving marks and

Spawning something like T. McFarlane

See a tale of two New York cities

Depending on what part you live in

It's the best of lines but the worst of times

When you're getting rhymes from Charlie Dickens

Iliad had me mad at the gods

Bringing Down the House

Had me stacking the odds

Read Puzo feel like I'm back in the mob

Stay true to my bro like Calvin and Hobbes

We fighting so y'all can get

The 1619 Project

451 Fahrenheit's hot as it get

So spread them book cheeks

Ay we spreading book cheeks

Ay, ay we spreading book cheeks

A far away land's where it took me

Can't wait to spread them book cheeks

Ay we spreading book cheeks

Bing bong that's a bell in the hook see

Might find a path to how it should be

So we spread them book cheeks

A true book lover's what you know me as

I like movies too but you're showing me trash

Tom Cruise is cool but did you know he has

No Oscar wow

Junot Diaz (shh!)

Catch me in the library way in the back

Where it's getting weird like Yankovic

I'm staying mad eating Grapes of Wrath

'Cause Ye went back put Yeats on a track

Glad nothing is overdue

'Cause I need some more of that Langston Hughes

Big fan of Ms. Judy Bloom

I'm Joey in the sand, how you Dune

If you really wanna feel empowered then

Gotta get you up on that Howard Zinn

Like the part in Two Towers when

Gandalf came back had 'em cowering

See now and then I get into fiction

Get to the end like a benediction

Crazy world got us all wishing

For a thrill in the courts like John Grisham

We fighting so y'all can get

The 1619 Project

451 Fahrenheit's hot as it get

So spread them book cheeks