Parallel Or Together - Ted Leo

We're caught in a landslide the minutes come tumbling down

And into an hour's time within which a day's worth of work

Must be planned out and pan out for every week to be worth

The weekends of downtime and months of an ennui that kills

And years of resentment

Of everyone's contentment and you

Can't justify it still

I tell you my reasons you don't tell me your inside jokes

Until I've gone bitter on every word that you've spoken

And all of your kind words amounting to naught but a token

And all their inaction will tumble away with the days

And nights of together

As we're really not together at all

But parallel

Now I'm walking on downtown in a town that is not my home

And shopping for breakfast to be eaten all alone

And dreaming of houses none of them that I own

But that's not my province that's not for what I am known

So I gather around me all the little pieces of a song

And fit them where they belong

So go to your downtown and bring what you've brought back home

You never should worry your hours will now be as long

As the days that you hurried and months when it all seemed wrong

In all of the action will tumble away with the years

And parallel evenings

And parallel tracks of our tears

And nights of together are where

So I gather around me all the little pieces of a song

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong

And fit them where they belong