Biomusicology Lyrics - Singles - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

Had we never come across the vastness of pavement 

The barrenness of waves and the grayness of the sea 

Never lost or ne'er been misguided 

We'd have ne'er reached seas so shining 

Or come from out of a hansom in Camden 

To a bar in the basement 

While all the while it rained 

Or come around to the friendliest of faces 

Handsomest in ugly places 

Or come from out of the tunnels we dig in 

To see that tunneling's not living 

And working doesn't work 

Or come to find that loving is labor 

Labor's life and life's forever 

Or come to see that keeping's not giving 

You get what you've given 

You get what you deserve 

And in the midst of all of the action 

Maybe only there found satisfaction 

Chasing sea-foam dreams 

Around another dirty old town 

Parallel run streams 

Toward the gray ocean from the green ground 

'Oed und leer, das meer 

But look beneath the glassy surface 

All the songs you hear 

Down there they have a purpose 

All in all we cannot stop singing 

we cannot start sinking 

We swim until it ends 

They may kill and we may be parted 

But we will ne'er be broken hearted