Lyric

Paperback paradise awaits

Behind these café garden gates

Rows of stories, spine to spine

Each one could be yours or mine

Dog-eared pages, coffee stains

Evidence of reading gains

Second-hand but first in heart

This is where adventures start

Every cover tells a tale

Of the loves that never fail

Paperback paradise found

Where the best stories abound

With my latte and my book

I don't need a second look

At the world beyond this place

Perfect peace in perfect space

Authors from across the years

Speaking to my hopes and fears

Through the pages worn with love

Like a blessing from above

Every purchase is a vote

For the stories that they wrote

Building up my library

Of literary reverie

Paperback paradise found

Where the best stories abound

With my latte and my book

I don't need a second look

At the world beyond this place

Perfect peace in perfect space

E-books cannot replicate

The feel of pages that relate

To every reader who has been

Lost within these stories' din

Paperback paradise found

Where the best stories abound

With my latte and my book

I don't need a second look

At the world beyond this place

Perfect peace in perfect space

Paperback paradise, my home

Where happy readers always roam