The Anointed One-Ted Leo

[ti:The Anointed One] [ar:Ted Leo] [al:Hearts Of Oak] [offset:0] [00:00.55]The Anointed One - Ted Leo [00:04.63]The anointed one, father's favorite son [00:10.06] [00:12.00]Now we see, long before the race, [00:14.55] [00:15.34]You'd already won [00:18.28] [00:19.06]Oh beatified, with the softest eyes [00:25.15] [00:25.87]These days I can't escape your face, [00:29.63]Do you remember mine? [00:32.97] [00:35.06]Oh, it haunts me [00:40.33] [00:41.56]Oh, what a fool I must have been [00:44.81] [00:47.13]We saw red, not green, when we were nineteen [00:52.45] [00:53.59]Now something's different, [00:56.50]Something happened somewhere there between [00:59.68] [01:00.81]By the river bend, did I misapprehend [01:06.05] [01:07.51]Your sincerity or is it you have changed, friend? [01:13.51] [01:15.98]Oh, it haunts me [01:21.37] [01:22.08]Oh, how could I not have seen what you'd become? [01:26.93] [01:28.16]But you fooled everyone [01:30.27] [01:31.52]Lace curtains in our slum [01:33.61] [01:34.56]You were the anointed one [01:37.20] [01:38.01]Alright! [01:38.47] [01:51.75]Watching you grow with the pride of a friend [01:53.98] [01:54.69]Kissing off school, there were rules to be bent [01:57.81]Knelt by your side through our crises of faith [02:00.25] [02:01.05]Mine was on time but for [02:02.69]You it was already too late, too late [02:09.03] [02:10.17]In the capitol [02:11.35] [02:13.49]With your freezer full [02:15.47] [02:16.77]Do you represent your district [02:20.39]Or your daddy's will? [02:22.52] [02:38.92]Oh, it haunts me [02:43.61] [02:44.81]Oh, how could I not have seen what you'd become? [02:49.38] [02:50.64]But you fooled everyone [02:52.59] [02:54.19]Lace curtains in our slum [02:55.85] [02:56.92]You were the anointed one [02:59.12] [03:00.26]What have you become? [03:02.18] [03:03.39]But you fooled everyone [03:05.36] [03:06.54]Lace curtains in our slum [03:08.78] [03:09.60]You were the anointed one [03:12.55]