My Vien Ilin-Ted Leo

[ti:My Vien Ilin] [ar:Ted Leo] [al:The Tyranny Of Distance] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Vien Ilin - Ted Leo [00:08.03]And when I was seventeen I made myself a DMZ [00:12.30] [00:14.60]But they continue bombing me hot and steadily [00:18.25] [00:21.19]They divided me at seventeen I declared myself a DMZ [00:25.88] [00:28.22]But they conitnue bombing me incessantly [00:31.82] [00:35.07]Dig in vien ilin Dig in today [00:36.44] [00:38.34]The Americans are on their way [00:40.02] [00:41.89]American Bombs Away Dig in today [00:46.10] [00:48.77]We make our days as they make us as Odysseys [00:52.48] [00:55.19]Make myself my own telemachus [00:56.55] [00:57.68]'Bous Stephanos Stephanoumenous Dedalus ' [00:59.48] [01:02.37]And if it hasn't been a bust then 'Land-ho Ulysseus ' [01:06.69] [01:09.22]And all of us like dedalus: [01:10.44] [01:11.41]Dead Dead all of us [01:13.30] [01:15.67]Between the dense red clay and the deep blue sea [01:17.97] [01:19.43]What horrors rage internally [01:20.38] [01:22.79]And whatreactions chemically through synapses so awfully [01:26.76] [01:29.71]Conducting electricity and conerting less efficiently [01:34.38] [01:36.62]What porential energy for this life of endless tunneling [01:40.51] [01:43.38]So deep beneath the DMZ lightless of necessity [01:47.85] [01:50.28]Their baoombs are heard incessantly [01:51.55] [01:52.23]Our days they make us clearly