Shake The Sheets Lyrics - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

I said, "I wonder how it is I'm standing here 

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 'til I'm shivering and is it 

Wasting the time I've been given to maybe 

Wait for the day of oblivion? 

I want to take it to the president 

Him and all his 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 'til you're shivering and is it 

Wasting the time 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 

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 good and ready" 

Sometimes it's gonna hurt 

Sometimes you're gonna deserve that 

But if you hold on to what you've got 

I know you'll keep it steady, 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 you gonna save the world 

When the world ain't ready, world ain't ready?