Stop the Kids From Reading

Stop the kids from reading,
the whole thing's a rotten scam.
The only reason we sell it
is because we never understand.
The thing is no one likes to read,
no, not the ones who don't like to,
and when we say everyone should,
those people read some fucking shoe.
They read only the easiest crap,
the stuff you see around today
but will be long far away gone
when the true test of it will maintain
what we already know.

Those who will read,
those who will write,
will already know.
That's the way
that it always goes.
If everything could
be wrapped up so nicely
as what we all wished
to be true, why,
we'd celebrate tyrants
as less history than hero.