Ted Leo - Me and Mia lyrics

As I was walking through a life one morning The sun was out, the air was warm, but oh, I was cold And though I must have looked a half a person To tell the tale in my own version, it was only then that I felt whole Do you believe in something beautiful? Then get up and be it! Fighting for the smallest goal, to get a little self-control I know how hard you try, I see it in your eyes But call your friends, 'cause we've forgotten what it's like to eat what's rotten What's eating you alive might help you to survive We went on as we were on a mission, latest in a grand tradition But oh, what did we find? It was ego who was flying the banner, and me and Mia, Ann and Anna Oh, we'd been unkind But do you believe in something beautiful? Then get up and be it! Fighting for the smallest goal, to get a little self-control I see it in your eyes, I see it in your spine But call your friends, 'cause we've forgotten what it's like to eat what's rotten What's eating you alive might help you to survive And even the nights, they could get better And even the days ain't all that bad And after a week of fighting, as more and more it seems the right thing But do you believe in something beautiful? Then get up and be it! Fighting for the smallest goal, to get a little self-control Won't anybody here just let you disappear? Not doctors, nor your mom and dad, but me and Mia, Ann and Anna Know how hard you try, don't you see it in my eyes? Sick to d**h of my dependence, fighting good to find transcendence Fighting to survive, more dead but more alive Cigarettes and speed for living, sleeping pills to feel forgiven All that you contrive and all that you're deprived All the bourgeois social angels telling you you've got to change Don't have any idea, they'll never see so clear But don't forget what it really means to hunger strike when you don't really need to Some are dying for a cause but that don't make it yours And even the nights, they could get better