Jazz At The Bookstore-Ron Sexsmith

[ti:Jazz At The Bookstore] [ar:Ron Sexsmith] [al:Time Being] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jazz At The Bookstore - Ron Sexsmith [00:12.94]Leadbelly's in the background [00:15.66]Being drowned out by the grind [00:18.09] [00:18.60]He's singing 'bout "Rock Island Line" [00:21.84] [00:22.61]Nobody seems to pay him any mind [00:25.52] [00:27.83]Bestsellers and bookshelves [00:30.14]Full of self help printed word [00:32.69] [00:33.29]Some faint elegance is heard [00:36.24] [00:37.11]Now was that Ellington or Bird [00:40.15] [00:42.80]And has it really come to this [00:46.52] [00:47.84]Can ignorance be bliss [00:51.18] [00:52.18]I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop [00:57.66] [00:58.36]Jazz at the bookstore [01:01.97]And Blues in the coffee shop [01:05.74]Jazz at the bookstore [01:08.78] [01:09.31]And Blues in the coffee shop [01:12.39] [01:18.29]There's a man standing at the crossroads [01:21.55]With a dark roast in his hand [01:24.79]He's Livin' in white yuppy land [01:28.07] [01:28.62]Over by the milk and sugar stand [01:32.33] [01:34.45]And have I really come for this [01:38.24] [01:39.15]A cup of caffeinated bliss [01:42.95] [01:43.76]So we browse around [01:45.96]All over town [01:47.95]Sipping coffees that we can't pronounce [01:51.02] [01:51.79]Meanwhile in the Blues Cemetery [01:55.18]All the coffins commence to bounce bounce [02:01.56] [02:15.83]Leadbelly's in the cold ground [02:18.66]Rolling over in his grave [02:20.90] [02:21.60]The hard road where so many slaved [02:25.09] [02:25.69]Is now so smooth and paved [02:28.60] [02:31.33]And has it really come to this [02:35.14] [02:36.41]Can ignorance be bliss [02:39.70] [02:41.00]I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop [02:45.98] [02:46.79]Jazz at the bookstore [02:50.25] [02:51.43]And Blues in the coffee shop [02:54.00]Jazz at the bookstore [02:57.61] [02:58.87]And Blues in the coffee shop [03:01.03] [03:01.66]Jazz at the bookstore [03:04.62] [03:07.41]And Blues in the coffee shop