Ted Leo & The Pharmacists Parallel or Together? Lyrics

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
Ammounting to nought but a token
In all their inaction
Will tumble away with the days
And the nights of together
As we're really not 'together' at all
We're '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 bought 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.
Fit them where they belong...