My Books are the Best People
by glennny featuring A Single Pint of Failure and Stacking Theory

Song Bio:
Spoiler So I asked Gizo to be my guest. I've loved his music for years. We were brainstorming on what the blank would be. One of us mentioned books. that sparked an old memory of my mom saying something like "My books are the best people". We lost her in 1994. I was 22. We were very close. Growing up she stayed in all the time. She was sick most of her life. She also would not be seen without a book in her hand. She would have the TV on, but read a book meanwhile. I'd get frustrated as a kid that she was always too tired or sick to come play outside with me. I think I said something like "Why don't you have any friends? Why don't you have other people in your life?" and that's when she had that response. I did inherit all of her books, and many of them were the books she inherited from her dad. I didn't tell Gizo this, but she was also a piano player. When he suggested and performed the piano outro it was perfect and beautiful and haunting. I'm an atheist, and my mother was not. We basically agreed to disagree, but she did say to me " I'll prove it to you, when I'm gone I'll haunt you." It's amazing working with Gizo, that guy is super talented!

I know it’s perfect outside
I’ll be here when you get back
Enjoy the sun with your friends, my son
and feel the warmth that I lack

If you think it’s boring
For me to stay inside and read
then brace yourself for what’s to come
because I’ll miss you very much indeed

The best people are my books
They never look down at me
Their stories keep me on pins and on needles
When doctors are needling me

You say I’m always too tired
You think I’ll always be sick
and I’m still glad I had you child
though it went by far too quick

Even though I am alone
I never start to feel lonely
I love that you are active and
I know that you’ll return to me

The best people are my books
They always look up to me
Their stories take me everywhere
While I’m trapped in this fragile body

I turn the page, but I have to go
I’ll hang around to haunt you
I turn the page, but I have to go
I’ll hang around to haunt you
I turn the page, but I have to go
I’ll hang around to haunt you
I turn the page, but I have to go
I’ll hang around to haunt you
I turn the page, but I have to go
I’ll hang around to haunt you
I turn the page, but I have to go
I’m sorry that I can’t haunt you

If you think I’m over
and you think that I left you behind
brace yourself for what’s to come
because I’m never gonna leave your mind

The best people are my books
and now they’re staying with you
Let them take you wherever they took me
When you need a small part of me with you