Baba Brinkman - Get It From Reading lyrics

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 pa** 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 s**-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