Parallel or Together? Songtext
von Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

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 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 nought but a token


in 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 provence
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
and 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.