Unseen Flirtations - The Literary Dress Code [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

I

(Pause)
I haven’t got a great deal of money but I’m cool though
Quite clever, but essentially a fool though
Essentially a fool though?
Yeah, ‘cause I put new clothes, on a par with new books –
It’s a new code
Dress code-
Read, and knock ‘em dead with Cool Pose
Readabookinpublic is the latest way to pull those
Stares, glares, side glances and full blown
Looks to the face
(The attention is great)

II

My copy of The Iliad is fresher than your outfit
You’re looking at me differently like “what’s that all about?”
Then I mix it up – Hit you with some Rushdie
One time
Switch it up –
Carol Ann Duffy
In the sunshine
Bronte
Emily or Charlotte?
Either way
Literally dripping with style when I flick a page
What style?
It depends what I am reading, man:
Modern, post-modern, post-post-modern, Victorian?
A great knowledge of various different genres and
I wear it on my sleeve
Believe I’m rocking all of them
Just the other day I had a new Sebastian
Faulks and each page I turned was a new fashion trend
The Seamus Heaney I keep in my blazer pocket’s
Actually an accessory – the literati rock it
You just can’t stop it
I have a stylish library
And what you see me reading in is all a single side of me

III

Unseen Flirt:
Reads loads and makes amazing tracks
The latest dress code includes a battered paperback
Residing in my brown, leather satchel and providing
It’s a quiet tube journey
You just might glimpse a catch
Catch a glimpse –
I’m sorry for that mix of words
Unseen Flirt, covered head to toe in literature
For alliteration I’ll wear Shakespeare as a shirt
Tennyson as trousers and Motion as a mini-skirt…

IV

My style
Is swift like Jonathan
Wilde-styled Oscar
Libraries? I bother them
Because I walk in fully butt-naked
Rearrange the place and leave
Covered in pages
A disgrace to see them go wasted
Under-read people look like old vagrants
Start by wearing a waistcoat
Made out of chapters
Do it in stages…
(adlibs)