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Anarchist Bookstore, Part 1

from Paullelujah​!​? Remastered + Bonused by MC Paul Barman

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In a college town, with olive green all around,
professors and skate punks rock SG Paul’s wall of sound.
There’s an anarchist bookstore
that has more than you’d look for.
A core of local folks wait for a late lift.
There’s often a great drift to the shop
for the Wednesday night five-to-eight shift.

The clerk at work is the prettiest gal in town.
She cries during the video for “Allentown.”
She’s a precocious socialist
and she’s willing to pal around.
She’s twice as cool as the kids at her high school.
Every Wednesday after French Club she rides to work with a stuffed mastodon in the basket on her bicycle.

Voice Talent, a rapper, said, “If Noam Chomsky was from
the Bronx, he’d have been assassinated promptly.”

The clerk said, “He WAS from the Bronx.”

He said, “You know what I mean. Ignoramuses.”

“Oh boyee, what a pain this is,” said the only paid employee, the manager. “I came for culture not accountin',” and a girl put a flyer up above the water fountain.

She carried clandestine two dollar mescaline in her blue collar mess tin plastered with stickers that said, “Food Not Bombs,” “Sex Not Proms,” and “Critical Mass.” That bastard, Voice Talent, snickered.

He thought, “Nice graphics but that’s just half-assed agitprop to piss off a traffic cop. Aww shucks. Can it be I’m too lazy for potlucks? If not my friends, who am I willing to cook for?”

And they’re chilling at the Anarchist Bookstore.

* * *

Voice Talent, the rapper, had a rapport with a stripper whore who he’d vote for long before he’d vote for Tipper Gore. He equipped the store with a credit card machine and put zines in their places.

He said, “Take Back the Streets is more like Take Back Four Parking Spaces at the most,” and left to
host the Sunday Showcases. He was all dressed in tinsel, yo, but he couldn’t convince his friends to go.

They were like, “Voice Talent, you put on a minstrel show.”

He said, “Someone’s psychotic. Someone took too much
semiotics.” “Furthermore,” he thought, “Someone can tzuck my Tzadik.”

But V.T. was the opposite of T.V. He’d never accuse someone of being P.C. because it’s so frigging dumb to say. The term arose on the Columbus Day Quincentenary when the republic was honest about the conquest and wouldn’t party as previously promised.

If someone uses a nonoffensive vocabulary, that person
is considerate, not P.C. If someone has a heavy-handed agenda, that person is narrow-minded, not P.C. Unless you mean Providence College, P.C. is as meaningless as the president’s apology for slavery. Maybe P.E. should be on the radio, not just in the African American Norton Anthology.

* * *

Will Barnes & Noble harm the global?

Will Amazon Com be around when gramma’s gone, mom?

* * *

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from Paullelujah​!​? Remastered + Bonused, track released October 10, 2010
Produced by (MF) DOOM.

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