DESCRIPTION:
A Thesis Project original. A lament for the brick & mortar bookstores we've known and loved, with special love to Acres of Books and our Long Beach Borders.

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Written by Robyn & performed by Thesis Project (Shar Higa - lead vocals, Robyn Javier - organ, guitar, vocals)
with special guests....
Stan DeWitt: lead guitar, vocals
Stephen Higa: vocals
Abby Bolin: vocals
Bruce Ford: vocals
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Pressing my face to the window
How many bookstores have closed
Friends shed a tear as they're leaving
Wand'ring slowly with no place to go

The scent and the feel of the pages
Linger so soft in my mind
Doorways so often we'd enter
Now locked for the very last time

Oh Lord above, if you're list'ning
Please hear my prayer, let me know
Give me a sign, won't you tell me
That the bookstores in heaven never close.


Shelves that are empty and broken
Aisles that are silent and still
Pages someone could've written
A future that now no one will

Oh Lord above, if you're list'ning
Please hear my prayer, let me know
Give me a sign, won't you tell me
That the bookstores in heaven never close.


Hemmingway, Shaw, Twain, and Dickens
Vonnegut, Joyce, and Voltaire
Living forever without them
An eternity I could not bear

Oh Lord above, if you're list'ning
Please hear my prayer, let me know
Give me a sign, won't you tell me
That the bookstores in heaven never close.

Oh Lord above, won't you hear me?
We've got it so wrong down below.
Won't you give me a sign, Lord, and tell me
That the bookstores in heaven never close.
Tell me the bookstores ... in heaven ... never close.