My Vien Ilin letra

And when I was seventeen
I made myself a DMZ
But they continued bombing me
Hot and steadily.

They divided me at seventeen
I declared myself a DMZ
But they continued bombing me
Incessantly.

Dig in Vienn Ilin, dig in today
The Americans are on their way
American bombs away!
Dig in today!

We make our days as they make us
As I must, as Odysseus
Make myself my own Telemachus
"Bous Stephanos, Stephanoumenos Dedalus!"

And if it hasn't been a bust
Then "land-ho, Ulysseus!"
And all of us like Dedalus:
Dead, dead all of us.

Between the dense red clay and the deep blue sea
What horrors rage internally
And what reactions, chemically
Through synapses so awfully?

Conducting electricity
And converting less efficiently
What potiential energy
For this life of endless tunneling?

So deep beneath the DMZ
Lightless of necessity
Their bombs are heard incessantly
Our days, they make us, clearly.

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)