Shake The Sheets-Ted Leo

[ti:Shake The Sheets] [ar:Ted Leo] [al:Shake the Sheets] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shake The Sheets - Ted Leo [00:16.70]I said "I wonder how it is I'm standing here [00:20.75] [00:21.54]While war is raging everywhere under the sky [00:24.92] [00:29.97]I feel defeated here by everything [00:33.66]Cheated here by everyone on every side [00:37.71] [00:42.41]I want to take you to a quiet place [00:46.21]And never ask the meaninglessness to reply [00:50.48] [00:54.86]When will we get an hour to celebrate [00:57.99] [00:58.76]Find the time to breathe a sigh [01:01.68]I've been working too hard to be living and later [01:05.23]Walking all night till I'm shivering and is it [01:08.31]Wasting the time I've been given to maybe [01:11.59]Wait for the day of oblivion [01:13.41]I want to take it to the president [01:16.59] [01:17.36]Him and all his cabinet with a broom [01:21.66] [01:25.22]I want to sweep the halls of arrogance [01:29.27] [01:30.09]Sweep the walls of the excrement of these baboons [01:34.38] [01:38.65]But I respect and prize the covenant [01:42.18]I respect the process I respect the rules [01:45.78] [01:50.97]When will we find a chord as resonant as [01:54.78]To shake the sheets and make us move [01:57.72]You've been working too hard to be living [02:00.46]And later [02:01.48]Walking all night till you're shivering and is it [02:04.43]Wasting the time you've been given to maybe [02:07.65]Wait for the day of oblivion " [02:09.59]And she said [02:10.79]"Roll out and make your mark [02:12.69] [02:13.95]Pull on your boots and march [02:15.90] [02:16.83]Then roll on and meet me [02:18.53]Where you'll find me doing my own part [02:21.68] [02:22.87]Roll out your dented car [02:25.26] [02:26.09]Maybe it won't roll far [02:28.76]But if you do everything you can [02:31.34]Well babe that's more than a start" [02:34.11] [02:53.39]And she said [02:54.54]"Roll out and make your mark [02:56.27] [02:57.36]Pull on your boots and march [03:00.31]Then roll on and meet me [03:02.19]Where you'll find me good and ready [03:04.79] [03:06.93]Sometimes it's gonna hurt [03:08.98] [03:09.74]Sometimes you're gonna deserve it [03:12.40]But if you hold on to what you've got [03:15.05]I know you'll keep it steady keep it steady [03:19.89] [03:25.62]So there's no end to work [03:27.66] [03:28.88]So there's no end to murk [03:30.78] [03:31.77]So everything else is dirt [03:33.71]But I am pure and steady [03:36.10] [03:37.88]So cut out the morbid verse [03:40.08] [03:40.95]I know you'll make it work [03:42.89] [03:44.08]And how're you gonna save the world [03:45.88] [03:46.41]When the world ain't ready [03:48.27] [03:49.37]World ain't ready "