Biomusicology-Ted Leo

[ti:Biomusicology] [ar:Ted Leo] [al:The Tyranny Of Distance] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Biomusicology - Ted Leo [00:22.83]Had we never come across the vastness of pavement [00:27.65] [00:28.67]The barrenness of waves and the grayness of the sea [00:32.59] [00:35.04]Never lost or never been misguided [00:37.84] [00:40.34]We'd have never reached seas so shining [00:43.63] [00:50.86]Or come from out of a hansom in Camden [00:54.21] [00:55.32]To a bar in the basement [00:56.79] [00:58.22]While all the while it rained [00:59.40] [01:01.57]Or come around to the friendliest of faces [01:04.78] [01:07.05]Handsomest in ugly places [01:10.43] [01:22.87]Or come from out of the tunnels we dig in [01:27.01]To see that tunneling's not living [01:28.92] [01:30.13]And working doesn't work [01:31.10] [01:33.60]Or come to find that loving is labor [01:36.74] [01:38.73]Labor's life and life's forever [01:41.86] [01:54.77]Or come to see that keeping's not giving [01:58.15] [01:59.35]You get what you've given [02:00.88] [02:01.94]You get what you deserve [02:03.06] [02:05.22]And in the midst of all of the action [02:08.27] [02:09.92]Maybe only there found satisfaction [02:13.93] [02:42.80]Chasing sea-foam dreams [02:45.58]Around another dirty old town [02:48.19]Parallel run streams [02:50.20] [02:50.74]Toward the gray ocean from the green ground [02:52.68] [02:53.22]'Oed und leer das meer [02:55.26] [02:56.04]But look beneath the glassy surface [02:57.45] [02:58.29]All the songs you hear [03:00.59] [03:01.29]Down there they have a purpose [03:02.85] [03:24.86]All in all we cannot stop singing [03:28.27] [03:29.22]We cannot start sinking [03:30.79] [03:31.79]We swim until it ends [03:32.84] [03:35.39]They may kill and we may be parted [03:38.76] [03:40.69]But we will never be broken hearted