Counting Down The Hours-Ted Leo

[ti:Counting Down The Hours] [ar:Ted Leo] [al:Shake the Sheets] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Counting Down The Hours - Ted Leo [00:11.06]Innocence it don't come easy [00:13.15] [00:13.81]In a sense it never will [00:15.69] [00:16.39]Accidents mean no one's guilty [00:18.66] [00:19.38]Ignorance means someone's killed [00:21.42] [00:22.22]So I asked our Mr. Mellor [00:24.10] [00:24.65]How to get to where one's going [00:26.87] [00:27.50]And he points to his survival [00:29.70] [00:30.22]And he points me down the road [00:32.75]And I go on wondering if I've got a soul [00:38.65]And counting down the hours till it goes [00:43.11] [00:53.51]On a dark wet night in April [00:55.49]On a street in jersey where [00:57.33] [00:57.87]I went looking for some writing [01:00.33]That I new would not be there [01:02.17] [01:02.82]And a punter from the pelhams [01:05.13]And the police in the rain [01:06.95] [01:07.59]Were concerned more with a car [01:09.72]Than with the fact the light had changed [01:12.25]But after listening all morning as I dove down 95 [01:16.51] [01:17.23]To a story of detainees who were barely kept alive [01:21.79]I could deal with trying [01:23.44]To process pigeons acting like they're doves [01:26.25] [01:26.87]But not with interference from the power lines above [01:31.38]And I go on wondering if I've got a soul [01:36.73]Counting down the hours till it goes [01:40.88] [02:01.57]Oh precautions yes precautions [02:03.91] [02:04.72]But if you're playing [02:05.72]With a gun you could kill someone [02:09.17] [02:10.94]And in the dark it's hard to know a friend [02:13.61] [02:14.43]But I'm not angry I won't be forever angry [02:19.13] [02:19.68]As I'm walking toward tomorrow with a rifle in my hand [02:23.81] [02:24.63]And I'm thinking about new England [02:26.25] [02:26.76]But I'm missing old Japan [02:28.55] [02:29.33]And a mountain in California [02:31.47]Where a spring runs hot and cold [02:33.80]And if I told you I felt ageless [02:36.25]Would you tell me I'm not old [02:38.37]As I go on wondering if I've got a soul [02:44.00]Counting down the hours till it goes [02:48.08] [02:51.44]I wondering if I've got a soul [02:53.53]Counting down the hours till it goes