The Ballad Of The Sin Eater-Ted Leo

[ti:The Ballad Of The Sin Eater] [ar:Ted Leo] [al:Hearts Of Oak] [offset:0] [00:00.54]The Ballad Of The Sin Eater - Ted Leo [00:03.73]When you run, digger, runner, listener, thief [00:08.50] [00:10.47]You carry it all with you [00:13.03] [00:25.47]Today I woke up uncertain [00:26.90] [00:28.38]And you know that gives me the fits [00:29.84] [00:31.22]So I left this land of fungible convictions [00:34.43]Because it seemed like the pits [00:35.59] [00:37.61]When I say convictions [00:38.70] [00:40.06]I mean it's something to abjure [00:41.61] [00:43.43]And when I say uncertain [00:44.89] [00:45.63]I mean to doubt I'll not turn out a caricature [00:47.86] [00:48.74]So I set off in search of my forebears [00:50.44] [00:51.74]'Cause my forbearance was in need [00:53.55] [00:54.81]But the only job I could get in dear old Blighty [00:57.40]Was working on the railway [00:58.70]Between Selby and Leeds [00:59.72] [01:01.22]So I took a ferry to Belfast [01:02.56] [01:03.52]Where I had cause to think [01:05.00] [01:06.52]They wanted none of my armchair convictions [01:09.36]But nobody seemed to mind [01:10.76]When I was putting on the drinks [01:12.44]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [01:14.70] [01:15.33]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [01:17.91]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [01:20.40] [01:21.13]Ah, but they hate you, [01:22.47]They hate you 'cause you're guilty [01:24.27]So I stayed out all night in Ibixa [01:25.91] [01:27.13]By way of San Sebastian [01:28.86] [01:29.99]Where they said "yankee, you better [01:31.40]Watch what you're saying [01:32.34]Unless you're saying it in Basque or in Catalan" [01:36.09]So all the way east to Novi Sad [01:37.91] [01:38.82]Nary a bridge was to be seen [01:40.64] [01:41.99]But mother Russia, she laid her pontoons on down [01:44.33] [01:44.91]So I crossed over, if you know what I mean [01:46.93] [01:47.77]Then on the road to Damascus [01:49.43] [01:50.45]Yes, the scales, they fell from my eyes [01:52.82] [01:53.80]And the simplest lesson I [01:55.07]Learned at the mount of olives [01:56.24] [01:56.83]That everybody lies [01:58.01] [01:59.64]And the French foreign legion [02:01.26] [02:02.57]You know they did their best [02:04.13] [02:05.38]But I never believed in T.E. Lawrence [02:07.70] [02:08.31]So how the hell could I believe in Beau Gest? [02:10.67] [02:11.21]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [02:13.38] [02:14.02]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [02:16.38] [02:17.07]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [02:19.17] [02:19.88]Ah, but they hate you, they [02:21.25]Hate you 'cause you're guilty [02:22.41] [02:22.92]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [02:25.04] [02:25.82]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [02:28.31] [02:28.93]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [02:31.02] [02:31.70]Ah, but they hate you, make no mistake, they hate you [02:34.12] [02:34.64]So I spent a night in Kigali [02:36.05] [02:37.53]In a five diamond hotel [02:39.00] [02:40.62]Where maybe someday they'll to the watusi [02:42.78] [02:43.59]On down in Hutu hell [02:44.84] [02:46.46]I fell in with a merchant marine [02:48.66] [02:49.31]Who promised to take me home [02:50.66] [02:52.41]But when I woke up all beaten and bloodied [02:54.81]I couldn't tell if it was Jersey or Sierra Leone [02:57.26] [02:58.09]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [03:00.26] [03:00.93]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [03:03.32] [03:03.99]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [03:06.32] [03:06.91]Ah, but they hate you, [03:08.28]They hate you 'cause you're guilty [03:09.79]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [03:12.51]You didn't think they could hate you, now would you? [03:15.16] [03:15.72]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [03:17.79] [03:18.57]Ah, but they hate you, make no mistake, they hate you [03:20.99] [03:32.90]And the knocking in my head [03:34.45] [03:35.65]Just like the knocking at my door [03:37.41] [03:38.54]And maybe it was me or maybe it was my brother [03:41.35]But either me or me and [03:42.78]Him went down to the bar [03:43.90] [03:44.90]Where I got seven powers in me [03:46.71] [03:47.42]For to give me the cure [03:48.74] [03:50.42]When seven powers failed to spin me [03:52.46] [03:53.23]I had to get me seven more [03:55.00] [03:56.61]And when I say me [03:57.82] [03:59.86]I mean my brain [04:00.71] [04:02.52]And when I say give me the cure [04:04.24] [04:04.96]I mean to kill the pain [04:06.23] [04:08.35]And when I say kill the pain [04:09.85] [04:10.81]I mean to get the devil out [04:12.76] [04:14.14]And when I say devil [04:15.45] [04:16.72]I mean the manifestation of doubt [04:19.13]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [04:21.71] [04:22.35]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [04:24.64] [04:25.42]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [04:27.64] [04:28.37]Ah, but they hate you, [04:29.62]They hate you 'cause you're guilty [04:31.23]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [04:33.31] [04:34.19]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [04:36.24] [04:37.02]You didn't think they could hate you, now did you? [04:39.35] [04:40.07]Ah, but they hate you, make no mistake, they hate you [04:42.40]