Ted Leo - My Vien Ilin lyrics

And when I was seventeen I made myself a DMZ But they continued bombing me Hot and steadily They divided me at seventeen I declared myself a DMZ But they continued bombing me Incessantly Dig in Vienn Ilin, dig in today The Americans are on their way American bombs away Dig in today We make our days as they make us As I must, as Odysseus Make myself my own Telemachus Bous Stephanos, Stephanoumenos Dedalus And if it hasn't been a bust Then land-ho, Ulysseus And all of us like Dedalus: Dead, dead all of us Between the dense red clay and the deep blue sea What horrors rage internally And what reactions, chemically Through synapses so awfully Conducting electricity And converting less efficiently What potiential energy For this life of endless tunneling So deep beneath the DMZ Lightless of necessity Their bombs are heard incessantly Our days, they make us, clearly