The Auteurs - Government Bookstore

from EP "Chinese Bakery" (White Cover), 1994 Not the hospital gown you´re wearing Or the bad luck that dogs us down What´s done is done They burned the old place down Chased me allround the reference section Tried to catch the attendants eye Ten years on the night shift Well I don´t work tonight All my books are on loan Since the Government Book store closed Well we met in the hotel lobby The executor read aloud the will No wake, no eulogy From this pathetic crowd It´s no Bloomsbury afternoon Just a couple of soaks and the villagefool Well they closedown the whole mainbuilding. Boared up and the main door staying shut Used to steal things From this now empty shop