Shake The Sheets letra

I said, "I wonder how it is I'm standing here, while war is raging everywhere under the sky?
I feel defeated here by everything, cheated here by everyone on every side.
I want to take you to a quiet place, and never ask the meaninglessness to reply.
When will we get an hour to celebrate, find the time to breathe a sigh?

I've been working too hard to be living, and later
Walking all night, until I'm shivering, and is it
Wasting the time that I've been given, to maybe
Wait for the day of oblivion?

I want to take it to the president, him and all the cabinet, with a broom.
I want to sweep the Halls of Arrogance, sweep the walls of the excrement of these baboons.
But I respect and prize the covenant -- I respect the process, I respect the rules.
When will we find a chord as resonant as to shake the sheets and make us move?

You've been working too hard to be living, and later
Walking all night, until you're shivering, and is it
Wasting the time that you've been given, to maybe
Wait for the day of oblivion?"

And she said, "Roll out and make your mark. Pull on your boots and march.
Then roll on and meet me where you'll find me doing my own part.
Roll out your dented car. Maybe it won't roll far.
But if you do everything you can, well babe, that's more than a start.

Roll out and make your mark. Pull on your boots and march.
Then roll on and meet me where you'll find me good and ready.
Sometimes it's gonna hurt. Sometimes you're gonna deserve it.
But if you hold on to what you've got, I know you'll keep it steady.

So there's no end to work, so there's no end to the murk.
So everything else is dirt, but I am pure and steady.
So cut out the morbid verse. I know you'll make it work.
And how're you gonna save the world, when the world ain't ready?"

Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Letras

• 2nd Ave, 11 A.M.
• A Bottle of Buckie
• Abner Louima v. Gov. Pete Wilson
• Annunciation Day / Born on Christmas Day
• Army Bound
• Ativan Eyes
• Better Dead Than Lead
• Biomusicology
• Bleeding Powers
• Bomb. Repeat. Bomb.
• Bottled Up In Cork
• Bridges, Squares
• Building Skycrapers In The Basement
• C.I.A.
• Call Off The Invasion /Flydocious Invasion
• Colleen
• Come Baby Come
• Congressional...
• Counting Down The Hours
• Criminal Piece
• Dead Voices
• Dial Up
• Dirty Old Town
• Even Heroes Have To Die
• Everybody Wants To Rule The World
• First To Finish, Last to Start
• Friends And Bands
• Ghosts
• Head In The Freezer
• Heart Problems
• Hearts Of Oak
• I Need A Roof
• I'm A Ghost
• La Costa Brava
• Little Dawn
• Little Girl in Bloom
• Lost On The Way To Load-In
• Loyal to my Sorrowful Country
• Me And Mia
• Mourning In America
• My Vien Ilin
• One Polaroid A Day
• Parallel or Together?
• Set You Free
• Shake The Sheets
• Since U Been Gone
• Six Months In A Leaky Boat
• SM 11:11/The Trumpet Of The Martians
• Some Begginer's Mind
• Squeaky Fingers
• St. John The Divine
• Stove By A Whale
• Suspect Device
• Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead
• The 'Nice People' Argument
• The 11th
• The Angels' Share
• The Anointed One
• The Ballad Of The Sin Father
• The Crane Takes Flight
• The Golden Finch And The Red Oak Tree
• The Great Communicator
• The High Party
• The King of Time
• The Latest Dart
• The Lost Brigade
• The Mighty Sparrow
• The Northeast Corridor
• The One Who Got Us Out
• The Sons of Cain
• The Stick
• The Sword In The Stone
• The Unwanted Things
• The Vain Parade
• The World Stops Turning
• Timorous Me
• To Decline
• To Decline To Take a Shower
• Under The Hedge
• Walking Through
• Walking To Do
• Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone
• Where Was My Brain
• Whisper: Courage
• Who Do You Love?
• You Could Die (Or This Might End)