Come,let's pack our bags Hunting hats and all Perhaps Stradtler is straddling some ****** ***** Right now, pun intended Ackley's snoring close to you Ignore the idiot Now listen to me You and I Let's forget Pencey and leave the **** phonies who run it
We'll walk the streets together With no dead ends our way Your fears scare me too, you hear me? The world is just too phony For people like us who escape to live
Everyone tells you to grow up And forget yourself Just to kiss and dance with their **** grown up ideas We are both at a losing end Finding a close to a story that never really began Let's just bottle up these *******
Holden, nobody really gives a **** except the cheap, wretched bars downtown where old jokes like ourselves set fire to the downpour in our heads with more pain and then some cheap painkillers ***** a little snooze a little Some you gain, some you lose
Nobody really takes a look For a **** second, see? Except the smelly, narrow hotel rooms Where we can rest our broken shoulders And become a child once again Once again, dear Holden Non sellouts unlike your brother D.B The door is to remain close Some phony might take it against us Take us to Hollywood The hell filled with phonies
Nobody, Holden, nobody We are alone You and me And the whole phony world killing themselves While laughing at our struggles To live our lives a little honestly
Holden Caulfield will always be my favorite character. Perhaps at an even higher rank than Sherlock Holmes. His angst, cynicism and frequent use of profanity is very much like mine. As I was reading the book I felt like I was living his life. This is for a character I really miss and who I'll always understand.