Get It from Reading - Baba Brinkman

Well, some people get it from eating

And other people get it from breeding

Well I can get a thrill from these things

But I can even get it from…

I got some nasty reading habits, some Breaking Bad

Season finale reading habits

I’m speed addict-needy when I’m fiending for chapters

In a Million Little Pieces, but in my case, it really happens!

I gotta feed this savage beast, indeed

They should call this «The Nymphomatic EP»

Cause I’m seekin' affiliates, ideas gettin' busy

From Ed Wilson to Matt Ridley, reachin' Consilience

The unification of knowledge is my policy

Jared Diamond put me up onto biogeography

Guns, Germs, and Steel, real history following

A little bit too complicated for Mitt Romney

No apology, I read myself to sleep

Richard Dawkins hit me with the selfish gene

But if my genes are predicted to breed selfishly

Then why do I keep more books than females with me?

Why I got my face stuck in The Blank Slate?

Tell me Stephen Pinker, is this helpin' me get laid?

Or is it cheesecake?

All I want is a taste

Of knowledge, like a moth to a flame…

Well, some people get it from eating

And other people get from breeding

Well I can get a thrill from these things

But I can even get it from reading

From reading?

From reading

I can even get it from reading

Cause I need it

I need it so bad

This need to read, it needs to get explained

It supersedes my need to breed, that’s pretty strange

Why should I be more concerned with getting brains

Than… getting brains?

Let’s model it with a steady state

Population of agents with nerdy people

And flirty people and worthy people and people who are deceitful

And every generation sees a change in the ratio

Based on who survives and where the matings go

Some want the virtuous and some want the villainous

And some are attracted to the flirty dumb ditzy-ness

But when the chips are down and someone’s gonna get

The short end of it, you’ll see the «dork benefit»

I’m talkin' about environmental context

That gives the content of your brain a strong test

And those who pass the test get the conquest

Of the resources, a cleverness contest

I gotta get prepped, so I’m on to the next tome

And that’s why I’m less than sex-prone.

I’m obsessed

With game theory and how it affects thrones

Cause a mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone

Well, some people get it from eating

And other people get from breeding

Well I can get a thrill from these things

But I can even get it from reading

From reading?

From reading

I can even get it from reading

Cause I need it

I need it so bad