Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

Bottled in Cork
There was a resolution pending on the United Nations floorIn reference to the question, "What's a peace keeping force for?"Who believed it would be solved in a day?No one who walked out of that building on the 8th of MayIn their tired-suited, worn-eyed wayI got a message from my sister, she just had a kidI had to get to Copenhagen to see how she didMy haircut startled a Canadian, he called me a "skid"Though the charge for roaming the international's well hidSomeone is listening on my phone when I show up on the gridMe - I'm just a loner in a world full of kids - egos, and idsA year before we were getting in, getting bottled in CorkOn television, Congress crying about abusing the porkI told the bartender we were all from New YorkSometimes the path of least resistance will gain you the mostWell, more than trying to map the distances up and down the East CoastWhen you're in Munich making music, raise your glass and say, "Probst!"(make it easy on your host)Over mountains and far awayYour tribuneral mockeries of justice still dog my stepsUntil I see that next smiling faceA little good will goes a mighty long wayA little good will goes a mighty long wayI finally made it up to Sweden to see Little DoveSome folk remembered our last meeting and bore me no grudgeAnd from the bartender, complimentary mugs!Oh, if only I could stay a while - what am I afraid of?All this psychic damage of all the years I'm made of...Tell the bartender, I think I'm falling in love Aus Songtexte Mania