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The Cat Empire - Won′t Be Afraid

Well I’ve been at the top of a cliff and seen ships go sailing away
And I’ve watched the sea turn green and bright bluefish swim in the shade
I’ve imagined skies in reverse and note stormy mountains can light
And I was there by the shore on the night when the stars all married the tide

When the time arrives
That we must form a line
Would you stand and take my side
Would you take my side

No I won’t be afraid
No I won’t be afraid
When the evening takes all of the color out of my day
And the morning is as far as it could ever be away

And now we turn into the world as if dreams were an ocean to wade
Under all the kites they glide like a friendship set on a wave

When the time arrives
That we must form a line
Would you stand and take my side
Would you take my side

No I won’t be afraid
No I won’t be afraid
When the evening takes all of the color out of my day
And the morning is as far as it could ever be away

And maybe I′m afraid of fools the children that are saved
Maybe I′m not certain when they draw the final curtain
The woman in the water and the baby in the barn
And the morning is as far as it could ever be away

No I won’t be afraid
No I won’t be afraid
When the evening takes all of the color out of my day
And the morning is as far as it could ever be away

No I won’t be afraid
No I won’t be afraid
When the evening takes all of the color out of my day
And the morning is as far as it could ever be away

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:03

The Cat Empire - The Mother Place

Whoah
Up up and down from the country to the town
From the streets to the city from the sky to the ground
in the alleyways
When the mad noise sound we be looking
But still we haven′t found what we′re looking for
For all of our days. Searching out prophets
In this great big haze
Of consumers, banks and commercial shit
and most of the people they sit

When think this is living a part of their lives
But if this is living then our lives are in strife
But now we be searching, searching for some space
That′s right we be in the search for the mother place.

(Felix)
And when we get there by land or by sea
By climbing up a mountain or swinging through some trees
On arrival we′ll get a sense of the place
And we′ll feel it in the air and the smiles on our face will grow
When the living does begin
When the banks they are burning
And the mobiles don′t ring no more
Radiation will cease
We′ll be lying outside
Drinking brews in the heat

And at this destination we′ll be doing what we want
And not because it′s fashion but because it′s our response
And we′ll write and we′ll read and we′ll work and feed
And won′t need nothing from society ′cause i′m free

(Harry)
And if you want we could write a post
However those with the noise find that it′s far
Better to search for a better living
Better to be alive than waiting for an ending
and some might say

(Felix)
That place don′t exist
It′s something that you′re dreaming
It′s something that you wish

(Harry)
Reply is simple
we′ll say it to begin with
(both)
If we don′t find a place
Then we′ll make it right here
Cause we′re rhyming for a reason
We plan ′cause we can
And we we didn′t ask for permission
And we enter with a bang
And the empire saying
Everyone should have a face
That′s why we be in the search
For the mother place.

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:02

The Cat Empire - East

I see the summer in a little green leaf now
One million trees now their swords unsheathed now
Little children been inside for weeks now
Running out water fighting in the streets now
I always lived for that summertime day
How to be sure good weather coming your way
How to be sure you leave behind clouds of grey
We head east, up to Byron Bay

Up to Byron Bay....

Take a bus if you must or just drive you′ll
Head straight in to the sea on arrival
Deserted beaches for me soul survival
In the East I find me gods much greater than the bible
And now I sit by this creek while I rest
I think lucky me because this East is still the West
I got food
I got water
I got peace
I am blessed
I got no bombs fallin on me chest
Fallin on me chest

I′m reminded as I sit by this creek now
Camel in the desert bone dry for a week now
The scene of learning on Earth this ancient land now
Ancient libraries buried in the sand now

Now everybody jump up, jump up and down now
The leaders of this country they are wearing the crowns
Represent the people of the country and the towns
So people shout out for compassion or this ship is going down

And in the East I see fun I see sun
But in another East I hear bombs I hear guns
Some good people they run run run
And we put them in a cage, let them burn in the sun
We just let them burn in the sun
What′s to be done?
We just let them burn in the sun

We so lucky why not share it around now?
We so lucky why not share it around now?
We so lucky why not share it around now?
We so lucky why not share it around now?

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:02

The Cat Empire - One, Four, Five

Listen doctor I have pain
that grows inside myself
shelf me please
I just can’t ease the pain
I need some drugs to help
ah pollution fills my lungs
and convolution fills my mind
ah my legs do ache
I contemplate
that living’s less than fine
my spine does tingle
when I think of being
freed from this curse
but what is worse I feel
life is a bubble
blown until it’s burst
oh doctor I am desperate
to get rid of this feeling
oh doctor I am desperate
for some good soul healing

The doctor turned and gave a grin
and reached into his bag
but instead of an injection
got a record with a tag
that said listen to this daily
with hip shaking and such things
then he puts the record in
grabs a mic and starts to sing
you need some

One four five
to make you high to make you high
to make you high to make you high
when heaven falling from the sky
to make you high to make you high

Doctor I am feeling better
what was that you sang
did you write it or recite it
or just steal it from a band
ah my bones are feeling stronger
and my spirit’s feeling fresh
ah that dose of 145 has put the life
back in my breath
‘yes yes yes’ the doctor said
then he sat me down and say
‘young man don’t think I wrote
these chords they’re written in
your brain’
and when you hear them
there’s a shakedown that begins within
the mind
cos these three chords make people
feeling better all the time ah
they keep repeating
like a scratch on a cd
but it’s quality cos these three harmonies
breed positivity
protecting against insanity
of modern insecurities
believe me when I tell you
all you need is to be hearing all that

One four five
to make you high to make you high
to make you high to make you high
when they said what and you said why
to make you high to make you high

The doctor turned and gave a grin
and reached into his bag
but instead of an injection
got a record with a tag
that said listen to this daily
with hip shaking and such things
then he puts the record in
grabs a mic and starts to sing
you need some

One four five
to make you high to make you high
when you could not count to pi
when you’re told you can’t fly
to make you high to make you high

times like these you need some
One four five .... hhhuuummnn

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:02

The Cat Empire - No Sense

Some days I wake
and I do look outside
and I know what I see
And think the dream from where I′ve come
might be reality
I stand and I do walk
and I do look
and I fall short of making sense
and on days like this I....

On days like these I′m looking at billboards and machines
and commercials on the screens
when the pictures in the trains
playing games inside the brains of all the people

who oblige like ants
to advertising sydnicates
I look at shit like this
and I cannot make no sense of it

Mad about thinking about thinking about
all the streets that never end
filled with cars and trucks and parking lots
and fumes that fill my head
and then my mind begins to hurt
it beats inside of me
I look and I do wonder
but I cannot make no sense of it

It drives me mad hearing all the mobiles that do ring
seeing kids with phones like dogs with bones
destruction these things bring
and then I′m sure man must be mad to worship tools like this
I think of better things
and I cannot make no sense of it

I was born in a land where natives they were shamed
and today the government′s afraid to recognise the blame
and deal with reconciliation that does stink
I think of better things
and I cannot make no sense of it

[ repeat ]

I think of better things....

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:01

The Cat Empire - All That Talking

And when it happens it’s like
honey and pain
horns in the rain
misty seas and mysteries
a dog with no name
it’s that time again
not sure if I’m sleeping
but the vision’s as clear
as fog on the pier
someone fishing aimlessly
a thought’s an idea
a sound is an ear
and gods with none believing
being chased by the lamb
a knife in its hand
looked down from that mountain
saw the moon get a tan
on the beach with no sand
something came and something ran
to make up my mind
is it bleak or it fine?
She looked a little doubtful
smirked and said it’s divine
to light with no lime
sometimes

Oh it’s too late I can’t stop
moving my mouth
I’ll shush but I’ll shout
something’s got a hold of me
those words coming out
like froth on a stout
dreamboat’s sailing into
stormy weather I see
salty debris
cows and tigers jumping at some
mad dignity
but passionately we’ll be
oh finding
ways without words
to sing and to purr
loving without declarations
stuttered and slurred
elephants blurred
nerves resisting urges serve
to speak with no sight
a bat taking flight
only to find tooth marks
in that sex dynamite
my girl’s got a bite
that’s right

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:01

The Cat Empire - Saltwater

I’ve got the clouds on a string
That I pull with my little finger elegantly
What is this oh what’s this music on the breeze
It sounds like all my holidays when my father used to say:
‘Let’s go down to the beach’
And we’d go down to the beach
My little sisters and me
Sometimes a man can feel like he is just a puppet
And the wind blows him here and blows him there
But when I kiss you my dear
I feel like a buccaneer
And water makes its music everywhere

CHORUS
Saltwater
Oh how I miss your misty kisses
Saltwater
Oh what expressionless bliss
Is this?

I’ve got the sky in my eyes
As I lie on my back in the deep blue sea
What is this oh what could this strange feeling be?
It feels like:
It feels like:
It feels like:
I don’t know what it feels like
But it feels right
Sometimes a man is like an icecream in a desert
And he wonders what is it we seek?
Like water runs through your fingers
Memories rise up from the deep.

CHORUS

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:01

The Cat Empire - Wandering

Well they say and they say
And they say this is home but we′ve been wandering round here too long
With no direction to go

Walking and wandering and wondering why
the time goes slow
Walking and wandering with half-closed eyes
the time is a-wandering by

Woah, wandering
Walking round in No Man′s Land
Time rolls on
This time we′re spending time on wandering
Walking round in No Man′s Land
Time rolls on
Oh, this time we′re spending time on

And today and today
is a day going on
for over two hundred years of being lost
two hundred years too long

Walking and wandering and wondering why
The time goes slow
Walking and wandering with half-closed eyes
The time is a-wandering by

Woah, wandering
Walking round in No Man′s Land
Time rolls on
This time we′re spending time on wandering
Walking round in No Man′s Land
Time rolls on
Oh, this time we′re spending time on

And today and today
is a day going on
for over two hundred years of being lost
two hundred years too long

Walking and wandering and wondering why
The time goes slow
Walking and wandering with half-closed eyes
The time is a-wandering by

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:00

The Cat Empire - How To Explain

When a room becomes an altar
and what beast that must exist
it flies with music from our lips
and steals a kiss and blows it
out into the mist
where castles stand on cliffs
and cobbled streets they wind and drift
and moods are made and set but shift
this place where skies are low
and birds are big

We went to sleep in day
and woke again the same day
we have learned to cheat the time
and find the hours
that the clocks cannot define
as I looked up from that stage
I felt the thing that had been made
And how it raged
And how it raged

How to explain?
Something makes me howl
and shiver to the core
ah outside if it was raining
then inside there’d be a storm
we’ve got a pair of hands for climbing
and a pair of knees to spring
and a pair of balls for strength

and a pair of lungs to sing
and these simple chords
that say: music is the language of us all

To write these songs is to be written
ah the chorus always knows
what is in store
and what is more the thing that sings us
is the thing that makes us roar
I felt that beast ‘kisso my neck
we clapped our hands
and heard them spread
there was a trumpet and a call
a pack of Spaniards screamed for more
music is the language of us all
music is the language of us all
music is the language of us all
music is the language of us all

I find it hard to speak emotional
cos these things are the things that
can’t be said
and when it’s struck it strikes
the memory from our heads
once I wrote to play’s
to be immortal for a night
and despite the unknown hours
something happens
when the light turns out the lights
then we fade and yawn
to music that’s the language of us all

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:00

The Cat Empire - Panama

I was in a plane to Panama
And a fly landed on her thigh
And I thought I brushed it off quite brashly
I introduced myself
And she said her name was sky.

A simple Hi and I could tell
That her plainness was well seamless
And somewhere deep inside
She drove a calm and weightless determination

And to what lands her mind would travel
I don′t know but I was so curious
I had to keep on thinking of her floating through the clouds Yeah

I asked her wether she enjoyed being in the air
And airily she answered with an accent so careful
I could feel each syllable while
I love things that seem impossible
I love things that seem impossible
Well I love things that seem impossible
And I love things that seem impossible Yeah

Bridge
Seem impossible
Seem impossible
I love things that seem impossible

And to what lands her mind would travel
I don′t know but I was so curious
I had to keep on thinking of her floating through the clouds Yeah

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:00

The Cat Empire - Rhyme And Reason

Rhyme and reason
Reason and rhyme
We asked the old man
“What is the time?”
The time he said
“I do not know.
The clock stopped working some time ago”
“What a disaster” was our reply
“We don’t know if it’s 1 o’clock or half past 5”
The man kept talking things were fine
Looking at the sun he said
The time was for reason and rhyming

Reason and rhyme
Rhyme and reason
We asked the old lady “What is this season?”
The season she said
“You can’t be sure.
The weathers changed, can’t tell you any more”
“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god what a thing!
We don’t know if it’s summer, autumn, winter or spring”
“But wait,” she said
“This might be pleasing.
The time has come for rhyming and rhyming and reason”

Rhyme and reason and destination
We ask ourselves, what is this nation?
This place they say is no mans land
And terra nullius is written in the sand
So what
With all these spaces
Can’t we be independent and combine the races
Well we will see what we can do
Like time and season
We’ll rhyme and then we’ll reason along

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:19:00

The Cat Empire - Sunny Moon

I climb the ladder of those black and white keys
They take me out and into places some are real some are imaginary
And though she sways between a mystery and light
She walks with me, she walks with me alone into the night

Tonight I see the sunny moon is rising again
Three seasons passed since you were here then disappeared a friend
Yet now exploded from its dream back in that place oh how it beams
And I see that you were glowing in the shadows
And you′ve been here all along
Ah you never left my side and now I feel my arms grow
Stronger

You may forget the details and you can forget the dates but never
Forget the moment when the light revealed her face
To be poor by lack of money but by god be rich in prize
I found my youths desire dark within her eyes
And the tent kept breathing something and then she cried -
′Hold on we′re going somewhere else tonight′
We′re going somewhere else tonight baby yeh!

And my friends they are the heroes of the loneliness that′s life
And though everyone has a weakness only some they are defiant
While most of us can see only a few have the gift of sight
Would you walk with me
Would you walk with me alone into the night
The sun is set

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:59

The Cat Empire - Party Started

CHORUS
It wasn’t hard…
To get the party started

(harry’s verse)
Chillin at the club
Pimpin with my money
(Well actually, my parties are more like)
Chillin in the sun
With tea and milk and honey
Tea and lamingtons
That’s my idea of fun
But I do enjoy the odd occasional bottle of rum
As we learnt in the songs that I have previously sung
When its done with fruit juice at a barbecue in the sun
If the afternoon is begun with kangaroo and capsicum
I do eat meat but I don’t like killing
So don’t crash my party while I’m sitting back chilling
My oh my why oh why are people so violient
I ain’t trying to be a lion I extend my alliance
To anyone who likes to just sit back and chitchat
Maybe have a jam, spit scats and eat biscuits
Before you know its midnight
and you’re running through the moonlight
And you realise…

CHORUS

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:59

The Cat Empire - The Crowd

Lord unchain my hands
let me sing inside the crowded trams
let me dance among the traffic jams
we′re going to sleep
on the St Kilda sands

Lord unbind my feet
let me mingle with the good people
we meet
water rising up into the street
unbind my feet

‘The apparition of these faces in
the crowd;
petals on a wet black bough"
Ezra Pound found the formula
our houses are rectangular
but life is curved not angular
so when things start to strangular
remember
rain still falls on the halls of power
new babies being born every hour
and the eagle keeps watch on the old clock tower
over me...

CHORUS

On the train I refrain from sitting with head and shoulders bowed
they told me time is of the essence
no wandering allowed
but then I saw a pretty girl
whose features stood out in the crowd
went ten minutes past my stop waiting for her to look around
I′m just another clown kicking around in Melbourne town
cooling out, relaxing watching the
world go round
so if you ever have the time
and you want to go drink some wine
I′d rather greet you with a smile
than greet you with a frown...

Lord unchain my hands
let me sing inside the crowded trams
let me dance among the traffic jams
we′re going to sleep
on the St Kilda sands

Lord unbind my feet
let me mingle with the good people
we meet
water rising up into the street
unbind my feet

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:59

The Cat Empire - Luck Song

So by now you have seen me
By now I have seen you
Would you would you would you
Move with me

Looked through a looking glass
and what did I see?
I saw one thousand cameras shooting
and a giant TV
and a mass of people sitting watching
watching that big screen
when around them was a fire burning
that they couldn′t see
they couldn′t breathe but kept watching
and thought things they would be fine
believed that the screen
would be screening for all of time
conceived the idea they were
behind the screen divine
but when it came to living
were what petrol is to wine

Hear through some speakers sounding
what did I hear?
I hear some plastic singer singing
plastic lyrics in my ear
and a mass of empty hands clapping
with an empty cheer
when in the distance was some soul music
that they couldn′t hear
neared the speaker with the plastic song
and tried their best to move
cleared a floor and tried to shake it
but they couldn′t find their groove
they feared to recognise that what they heard
was music abused
and when it came to dancing
their bodies refuse

So by now you have seen me
By now I have seen you
Would you would you would you
Move with me

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:58

The Cat Empire - Side To Side

We got soul
Soul soul soul tonight
We got soul
Shake and we provide
1,2,3,4
So step from side to side now
Honey′s move your hips from left to right now
Fellas got to get loose to keep it tight now
Well alright well alright

We got soul
Soul soul soul tonight now
We got soul
Shake and we provide
1,2,3,4
So step from side to side now
Honey′s move your hips from left to right now
Fellas got to get loose to keep it tight now
Oh alright now

We got soul
Soul soul soul tonight
We got soul
Shake and we provide

So step from side to side now
Honey′s move your hips from left to right
Fellas got to get loose to keep it tight
Well alright well alright well alright

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:58

The Cat Empire - Night That Never End

One night when I was sleeping
a gypsy lady sneak into my head
and she said
‘I’ve got a bottle of schnapps
lets get to know each other drinking
a belly full of laughs
and some thoughts that beyond thinking
let’s play a game of those cards my friend
because tonight I’m going to show you
how the night it never never never ends’

Morning is
one thousand dreams away
and our expedition
telling us to stay
so stay we will we’ve got that gypsy lady
perched upon our bow
and the empire ship be heading
where the wild ones they are now
oh how the gods look down
and frown at those who never stood said
‘my name is no-one’
then went a little mad

And from time to time
she sneaks back inside me and she say
‘lucky sing the secrets that I taught you always’
replied ‘as long as I am living
I never forget
that the sun is never shining and it never set’
so let’s make some fire and smoke and then
we’ll go exploring in the night
that never never never end

Morning is
one thousand dreams away
and our expedition
telling us to stay
so stay we will we’ve got that gypsy lady
perched upon our bow
and the empire ship be heading
where the wild ones they are now
oh how the gods look down
and frown at those who never stood said
‘my name is no-one’
then went a little mad

I’ve got a tingle in my back
and something sparking in my toes
I get the shivers through my body
when that trumpet blows
and while asleep I am awake
and while awake I am dreaming
before I start to think
I am scheming
to start a party tonight my friends
because tonight I’m going to show you
how the night it never never never ends

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:57

The Cat Empire - Voodoo Cowboy

His mother was a snake
His father was a scarecrow
Born in the desert with his hat on his head
Never missed a shot
Sharp as a Pharaoh
Tequila in the sunrise
The desert was his bed
Now he could dance the barn dance
Like nobody before him
But no woman would take him
Cos his eyes were rather strange
In them you could see the emptiness of the desert
Yellow like a scarecrow
Black like a snake

He was a voodoo cowboy
And he had never found a girl to call his own
On and on and on
That lonely cowboy
But a cowboy′s never really
Cowboy′s never really alone

He had a horse
Whose name was plenty
And they saw things no man or beast has ever seen
Out in the redness
Out in the empty
Where ghost and spirits walk around like you and me

He met a girl
Called Annabelle
And she was just the prettiest thing he′d ever seen
Under a lake at the edge of the world
He met a girl
Walking through the edges of his dreams

He was a voodoo cowboy
And he was following a psychedelic stream
On and on and on
That lonely cowboy
But a cowboy′s never really
Cowboy′s never really alone

So he rode down
Under the water
And the sunset made a fire above his head
In search of warmth in search of love
In search of heaven above
But all he felt was cold
And all he touched was wet
But he could see her down a little bit deeper
And all he wanted was to hold her to his chest
So he reached out and she reached out
And he touched her
And she drew him in
And kissed him as he breathed his final breath

Because you see
He was a voodoo cowboy
And he had finally found a girl he could call his own
On and on and on
Lucky lucky cowboy
Because cowboy′s almost always
Cowboys almost always die alone

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:57

The Cat Empire - Nothing

Yesterday
the sky looked sweet
when we dropped
a big bomb at our feet
and sometime soon
we all might zoom
to space and continue
with another zoo

Work and pace
for paper face
spend it wisely
and keep it safe
because the human race
is a non-stop race
with too many trials
but no real case

Something about this second
something about this hour
take away the money
then the time becomes the power
a moment just to swim
and to shower and to sing
and to brighten and to dim
and to sleep and to wander in

Nothing
oh sweet nothing
today we′re doing nothing at all

Yesterday
I climbed a hill
then cycle down speedy
on a great big wheel
feeling ill
laboured still
grinding and stressing
in that giant mill

Drove a car
stop and start
round and round in circles
never got too far
running barefoot
on the hot hot tar
‘cause if you stop
then you burn
then your feet get scars

Something about this instance
something about this minute
striving for the future
but don′t realise that we′re in it
a moment just to float
to ponder and to dote
to dry and to soak
and to take a little toke of that

Nothing
oh sweet nothing
today we′re doing nothing at all

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:57

The Cat Empire - Down At The 303

I want some culture
Never mind the cheese
Just want to hear music
And originality

I want some culture
Never mind the TV
Just want to hear music
Down at the 303


This is a rhyme about how good music can be
How mean are its bass lines its melodies and beats
Now it′s good to have positivity
But you also must be able to crush adversaries
because
We have terrorists in the music industry
Yes terrorists trying to define what music be
We are modern medicine men - cure all ills with ill
beats
But some people are making music sick
And stealing all the chi
You know who you are and yes judge not lest ye
Be judged I agree in front of my plasma screen but
While you′re making a concert of convicts who
Stumbled through the contest I′m taking the
Concept of convex and putting it in a concave context
And if you were Rocksteady, Bebop and Shredder
I′d be Krang... doing that evil shit better
Music is for living yes music is essential
Music should take risks and be experimental

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:57

The Cat Empire - No Longer There

And though you′d like to hear a song
That sings everything′s all right
The temperature is warm
The fire horses sleep
So gently comes the night

You close your eyes and stare
The ground they′re on is bare
But once it was as deep
As wildest giants dreams
It′s no longer there

And all of our desires
They mirror skies with flames
And smoke out heaven′s halls
Who was that you called
They′re no longer there

Here it goes again
Here it goes again
Here it goes again

What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead?
When your territories are dried out and your cities drowned and swept
What would you leave behind when those who bear your name
Are born in that place that you wrecked?
What would you leave behind when you′re no longer there?

Would you sail to distant shores?
And hide within the hills
And softly close your doors
Pretend the world is safe
And wait for heaven′s call

Or would you turn and face the seas
And come beside your cave
There′s chance but if you dare
And swift as honour′s steeds
Before it′s no longer there

Here it goes again
Here it goes agaaain
Here it goes aga .. ain!

What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead?
When your territories are dried out and your cities drowned and swept
What would you leave behind
When those who bear your name are born in that place that you wrecked?
What would you leave behind when you′re no longer there?

To deny or to despair
It′s really just the same
Everything between
It means we have to change
Cos when a one forgets
The world begins to fade
And all the shapes and shades
That made the colours see
When they suddenly turned grey
That they′re no longer there

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:56

The Cat Empire - Waltz

Was going to write a song at a time
When my life and my moods were in order and fine
But the hour was late and my room was a state
And I realized that song I would never create
And so this is a song I discovered instead
The song about living before we are dead
And by living I don′t mean perfection like gold
Cos living my friends is the sweet unresolved

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LEAN OVER YOUR BALCONIES AND DON′T RUN INSIDE
LOOK AFTER YOUR WORLD AND SHE MIGHT TREAT YOU RIGHT
LET RANDOM-THINGS-PROVIDE-IMAGINATION SOMETIMES OH

I′ve seen people trying to package their love
Like a dove in the kitchen with a note that says
Make sure you scrub well and plan and prepare
everything
Affection as clean as a triangle ting
But love it or not love′s as mad as they come
Oh it′s sly and it′s wise and it′s wonderfully dumb
And while some might still say ‘No it′s pure like
one′
My love it is wild and not mild and on the run

An Austrian waltz is a very strange thing
When it′s played in the midst of the Melbourne music
boxing ring
And who said that culture can′t grow from a whim
My god there is strength when a cat learns to swim
‘And what is a king′ he screamed at the wind
A king is decisive without and within
They can′t make me stumble they don′t hit my chin
They told me I mumbled so I decided to sing

I′d never be too old or bitter and thin
Was born with a smile and I′d die with a grin
And I dive in the ocean when the sky tumbles in
And I′d rise when I find a way to make her shining
And I know the trick that the gods love to play
You say you want one thing they take it away
But action I′ve found is a seven letter word
Pretend you want a shoebox
And find you′ve found the world

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:56

The Cat Empire - Boogaloo

There′s a soul man
And he′s shuffling in my head

He lives ah he lived ah he live ah he′s living
And I′m never going to grow old wishing
Could have my time again

He shuffle with the gypsy lady in my dreams
And she screams with her hips when he kiss her oh so

Something when he moves doesn′t have to move much
But he does it with such gentle tenderness, I′m
singing

Young men stomping in the bullpen
Looking for some good zen
Often to do the dumb things
Looking for some a-ah-ah-amen

There′s a soul man listening to the soul tamb
Playing in his right hand now he found this own sound

And it′s ok

He never speak for-the-sake-of-speaking
Doesn′t talk all-that-talking no he doesn′t say
nothing
Til he got something to say

He shuffle with the gypsy lady in my dreams
And she screams with her hips when he kiss her oh so
Something got me singing oh I never never
Never gonna
Grow old wishing
Could have my time again

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:56

The Cat Empire - The Rhythm

And for all of the sweet loving that
I have received
in the sun in the rain
by the moon by the sea
there is one time that I’m thinking of
one time where one woman
did knock me off my feet
and my knees were shaking
and my jaw was dropping
and my eyes were squinting
and my smile was growing
and my pants were bulging
and my hands were sweating
and my chest was beating
so I cry ‘excuse me,
what is the secret to your song?’

Cause when you’re walking along
when you’re walking along…

Your legs are a melody my hands
would like to play
and your hips are a note
that does take me away
and your face and your eyes and your hair
and your waist and your smile
drive me to distraction
she turned and she gave the evil eye
‘why thankyou’ she said
then she sigh ‘ah there’s one thing
I think you failed to mention…’
‘What?’ I said then she said
‘It’s the rhythm you forgot’
and right then I knew what was what
and she snuck to my lips
and she kissed them
said ‘young man
I’ll show you some rhythm’

And she’ll show you some rhythm

And since then ha
the rhythm’s been running through my veins
in my thoughts in my eyes
in my head it’s insane
it’s the thing that does drive me
to scream
on the street when I think of some
places it’s taken me
I feel horny when I thinking of some of that rhythm in my mind
what she gave what she gives to me
all of the time
say a little bit of sweet loving in your day
all my friends know it keeps the
bad thoughts away
so sing with your hips my baby
when you’re dancing to this tune
and when this tune is through
we’ll sneak to some place
and continue to…
say sing with your hips my baby
when you’re dancing to this tune
and when this tune is through
we’ll sneak to some place and
continue to –
she said I’ll show you some rhythm

And she’ll show you some rhythm

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:55

The Cat Empire - In My Pocket

I’ve got a key
And a piece of paper in my pocket deep
In my pocket piece of paper and a key
as I wander through the street
War is there a war
or is there isn’t a war anymore?
Somebody told me that nothing is for sure
Can you hear the ocean roar

On each street is a tree
In the distance the desert sleeps
Sometimes a sigh is a song
And a breath is a melody
Oceans rise and oceans fall
So just what does tomorrow mean?
I give smile a give a song
For one moment’s eternity

Na na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na

Oh but it’s some mob
Some mob that brought me here I know it is my job
To seek my fortune Nanna thank you for this mob
Remember you now you are gone
If I went away
Tropical island somewhere sunny every day
But everyone I ever cared about remained
Would I tan or would I fade?
So every morning he wake
Spend his day at the daybreak
And every spoonful he take
Be of something his own make
Mountains rise and mountains fall
So just what does forever mean?
I give a smile I give a song
For one moment’s eternity

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:55

The Cat Empire - Miserere

Do you ever look around
turn your ear to the ground
show your face to the sky
on a night when the skies echoe sounds
from inside of your mind
on the stage that you shone
where the sun did become you
and move with your thoughts
through the sighs and the scenes
of the worlds you have seen
and the sights that have been
your reflection in shadows and dreams?
- your reflection in shadows and dreams

Did you ever see a man
who did walk down the street
white robe with no shoes on his feet
and on top of his head place a box with two slits
and the sign from his neck said
‘I do not exist’
or a woman who could not remember her name
did stutter and stutter
again and again
and saw you and called you her son
her eyes said
‘my being is gone
but still I’m not dead’?

Miserere

Have you ever seen a sound
have you listened to an image
have you ever touched a thought
have you ever tasted nothing
have you ever told a lie
that was true more than truth
because truth it had lied
all its life when it spoke to you?
And what did it say
it is that it is this
this goes here here is there
it is not yes it is
it was dulling your senses
your eyes they were bound
have you ever my friends
been looking around?

And the other replies
with a wave of a hand
I am already here
in this promised land
but not by a god and not by a king
and not by a spirit
deep from within
I am here
because a miracle’s a whim
it’s a flash of glory
it’s an empty tin
and maybe might lets you in
not to save you
but to keep on looking-

Miserere

Have you ever
been so happy that you’re sad?
that the lights turn to stars
and the stars become eyes
and hello’s are goodbye’s
and the laughs are the sigh’s
and the show disappears with the note
‘until next time’

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Do you ever look around
turn your ear to the ground
show your face to the sky
on a night when the skies echoe sounds
from inside of your mind
on the stage that you shone
where the sun did become you
and move with your thoughts
through the sighs and the scenes
of the worlds you have seen
and the sights that have been
your reflection in shadows and dreams
Do you ever look around
and find what is yet to be found?

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:52

The Cat Empire - Lullaby

I cannot say ‘oh sweetness’
like he could
and I cannot play a lullaby
like it should

I’ll give you all night movie marathon
and a triple expresso so you can stay awake
it might be late - but
it’s never too late for that lovin
my sexy babe

I used to cry but now I have to laugh
because she’s got that torment
to a fine art
smart like a foxy
and craf-ty-as-a-cat
i’m looking up
as i’m lying on my back
bite the beast
if i want a big piece of the pie
but she’s taken the feast
in the blink of an eye
I can-not-jus-ti-fy
what’s going on
- it feels so right
when it seems so wrong
like a plot hatched
in the sweet spot of that trap
- ask what she’s schemes
she say ‘oh this and that’
then she snaps like a camera
in black with a flash
puts the drum in the drama
the hand in the clap
she’s a map with no bearings
attached - no
safety-in-this-match
fire you can’t catch
then zap I was struck by that
bolt before dawn
then by breakfast honey
we was signed and sworn
I’ll give you all night movie marathon
and a triple expresso so you can stay awake
it might be late - but
it’s never too late for that lovin
my sexy babe
something always telling me
‘save prayers before dawn’
cos what happens when I’m with you
makes me shake my head then smile and yawn
I’m worn out but I’m beaming
and it seems that we are dreamy
as we head out through that strange old morning door

This game is no game
but it’s played all the same
and I love it even
if it makes me deranged
it’s like tears in the rain
burning spears in my brain
cause me pain sometimes
make me drained
but I cannot complain
- mad the ugly good and bad
had some happy with my sad
and some tricks in my bag
when it’s up run a muck
like a bull that just bucked
when it’s down it’s a drag
and you fight with no partner to tag
- at times I would dive in the sea
to escape from the rising
and crashing malea
drink tea with a fat fish
and find a golden key
then rise to the surface
and open my baby
and maybe she’d say ‘we are crazy’
the two of us together like melbourne weather
be like balls in a maze see
we rolling along in obcurity
but when we meet in the middle
say mmm it’s a treat

I’ll give you all night movie marathon
and a triple expresso so you can stay awake
- it might be late but
it’s never too late for that lovin
my sexy babe
something always telling me
‘save your prayers before dawn’
cos what happens when I’m with you
makes me shake my head then smile and yawn
I’m worn out but I’m beaming
and it seems that we are dreamy
as we head out through that strange old morning door

I used to laugh
but now I have to cry
because today my baby tell me
that it’s time to say goodbye
ask her ‘why what did I do?
You and me we were so sly’
then she sigh ‘that’s true
we were slinky through and through
but it’s sad and it’s set
I get high then I get depressed
and I guess when we’re together
it’s that happy kind of stress’
touching left right down
kiss my finger I reply
‘I can’t deny you were the best
and by the best I mean the mess you made
I must confess I never
met-a-more sexy maid
that smell like me
so bless your wayward ways
and loving craze and crazy days
and things you’de say
and looks you made
you’re not the queen of hearts
you’re the queen of spades
and you’de take my breath away
any day that way
so anyway is this the end?
Is this the fifth act of the play?
I kissed her then I turned
and was about to walk away
when I sense a little tingle
that begin down from below
then I hear her with a whisper
‘you’re the most gullible man I know’

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:51

The Cat Empire - Radio Song

Don′t want to hear you say it′s hot when something′s wrong baby
Don′t want to hear you say it′s nothing when it′s not cos I
Don′t want to love you like that radio song honey
Don′t want to love you like that radio song

Before we go I′d like to play with you again
Before we go I′d like to play that show we′ve been cos I
I want to love you like a festival song honey
I want to love you like a festival song

And when I see that morning light I′m going to hold you in my arms
And let the everything be fine or let it finally drift apart
We′d go back to that place where we met and made our mark
And when I see that morning light I′m going hold you in my arms
Or let you go

Now we return and for an hour these songs ignite
But one it sings for you I′d love you for a night more than
The memories of broken images and fights more than
The memories of broken images and fights

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:51

The Cat Empire - Manifesto

WE BELIEVE
In the grass in the trees
WE SUPPORT
Living life cause life is short
WE UPHOLD
Sky of blue sun of gold
WE MAINTAIN
On sunny days all sadness and pain be relieved
WE BELIEVE
The breeze blows the leaves in the gypsy king′s court
WE SUPPORT
Food and wine song and thought and when the night gets cold
WE UPHOLD
The following rules that I′ll sing
to you all
We believe in melody
and harmony
and all things sweet
we sing a yum-a-yum chum
to the moon and the sun
and the rumble of the drums
and the big fat beat
we believe in the ace up the sleeve
and we shine our gold teeth
at the cats in the alleys
a flame on a match
that the wind can′t catch
and when the bad guys attack
the empire strikes back

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:50

The Cat Empire - 1001

Parking Inspector
- just made my list of one thousand
one thousand and one

but ah Parking Inspector…

Went to my friends
when I found a fine beat
cos I like to play a rhythm
where the rhythm plays me
play it all day
on a balcony above the street
where old Franky and me we
shuffle with our feet
And old man Goergie
takes some sugar with his tea
when he’s stirred by a melody
of hands moving easy
you see it reminds him
dreams by the sea
where the breeze blows
underneath that island tree

And we played til the playing
Gave us the munchies
then we played in the kitchen
made the easy gods happy
cos we left them a little chilli-special
and some chocolate we eat because it’s sweet
when I leave I am smiling
at the things I haven’t done
oh I haven’t broke a sweat
and I haven’t had to run
for the list of one-thousand
-and-one that does plague me
on some days
when the sun rays don’t come

Parking Inspector
just made my list of one thousand
one thousand and one

but ah Parking Inspector
[won’t let you wreck my fun]

When I get to my car
I am faced with a sight
that is strange and it’s sad
and it’s mad it’s not right
there’s one thousand and one
spaces free but I see
that he find me guilty
of the time over fee
Now I know why my mother
why my mother warned me
said ‘you might be lucky
but know nothing comes for free’
she is right - entirely
cos the ticket paid the song
that I sing to this beat

Parking inspector
just made my list of one thousand
one thousand and one
but ah parking inspector
won’t let you wreck my fun
cos when I pay for my ticket
I won’t curse and despise
no i’ll run into the girl
with the slinky blue eyes
then my list of one thousand and one
will remain
I had plans to get it done
but now my plans they have changed

Parking Inspector
just made my list of one thousand
one thousand and one

but ah Parking Inspector

‘just listen to the bass and the funky drums’

Parking Inspector
just made my list of one thousand
grow a little more
but ah parking inspector
you won’t believe what I saw
on the back of my ticket
with invisible type
was a map to the place
with one thousand delights
and a key that was one to that
spot by the sea where the breeze
blows underneath that island tree

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:50

The Cat Empire - Beanni

His name was Beanni
say where you been Beanni
I saw you on your skateboard
but I never saw your face
just saw your beanie
- Beanni

Her name was Fly Girl
say where you been Fly Girl
I seen you shake your mmm-boobie
but I never saw your face
just saw your fly sunglasses
in the night
and in the day

One day that Beanni
was cruising down the street
on his skateboard
and his Beanni eyes did look and see
that fine freaky Fly Girl
and that Fly Girl who was dancing
like only Fly Girl could
did notice one cruisy Beanni
flying right to where she stood

And then that Fly Girl was
a’scream and laughing at the same time
and till that Beanni
did fly and fall and crash into her side
and both of them did fall
and roll around on their arses
but then his beanie fell off
and so did her round glasses
Beanni reached down
and picked up Fly Girl′s glasses
from the ground
and Fly Girl did grab Beanni′s
beanie that she found
and she gave him back his beanie
said ′I like you with your beanie on′
and he did say ′your big black glasses
look so sexy on′

They got together
forever and ever after that
and had some little Beanni Fly Girl
and Fly Girl Beanni boys
gave them glasses for their eyes
and Beanni beanies for their heads
and now the Beanni family′s dancing
till the day they′re dead

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:50

The Cat Empire - Hello

Walking down the street
with some evil in my eye
and some thoughts in my head
that were making me feel high
on my head was a hoodi
in my ears was some bass
was walking by my dog
when I saw that sexy face
come towards me
with a little cheeky smile
if she was a phone
I′d pick her up and dial
the fire brigade
or zero zero zero
she stopped me in my tracks
and I said ‘mmm hchello hchello...’

I was sleeping in the sand
with some dreams in my head
that were causing an extension
to the towel and my bed
and the waves were rolling
like the curves on those legs
of a sweet beach bella
with that centrefold spread
in the midst of the slumber
I heard some footsteps creeping
and I woke to discover
the woman I′d been dreaming
she knelt down beside
said ′can I share your pillow?′
I rolled over and I said
‘well hchello hchello...’
Some like money making
some like cars
and some like the houses
with the rooftop spas
and some like to gossip
about some rich sugar daddies
but me and my friends
we like the golden brown honeys
and some like watching people
living on TV
that′s a little strange
if you′re asking me
cos I like to eat and laugh
and **** and play down low
these are the things I know
well hchello hchello...

Welcome to this night
welcome to this song
welcome to these rhymes
that be going on and on
welcome to the empire
and the funky empire tunes
but most of all welcome
to the bellas in this room...
well hchello hchello

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:49

The Cat Empire - Protons, Neutrons, Electrons

I’ve done too much of some things
And not enough of others
Just like all life lovers
I’ve changed and changed
and changed and changed
From one thing to another
I’ve had complicated dealings
With complicated feelings
And I’ve cut and bruised and torn
I made blinds on the windows of my mind
with the time that my back once wore
I’m a single person in this universe
And I am here to say to you:
On the day that I die I’ll just give a smile
And fly into the blue

CHORUS
(Cause we’re all just)
Protons, Neutrons, Electrons
That rest on a Sunday
Work on a Monday and someday soon
We’ll be singing the old tunes
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-doo
I’ll be sitting on the porch with you
Then I’ll die and I’ll fly off into the blue

Some night I see the world with its winds and its whirls
And I feel undefeated
But every day I see the girl with the strawberry curl
And I’m too shy to meet her
Some nights I go to bed
There’s a ghost in the air above my head
And I tremble
Sometimes I eat KFC
Other times I give up meat
And I just eat lentils
I’m a singe person in the universe
And I am here to sing a song
About the day that I was born
Till the day that I’ll be gone
And the song won’t last for long
(Cause we’re all just…)

CHORUS

And enemy is a remedy to a malady in your melody
If you’re strong not brittle
And a friend is a friend
Is a friend to the end and it’s oh so simple
A man is a man and a woman is a woman
But the times we are living in demand
That a man can change from a man to a woman
And a woman can demand to be a man
We’re just flesh with socks and locks and frocks
And I am here to say to you
On the day that I die I’ll just give a smile and fly into the blue
(Cause we’re all just…)

CHORUS

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:49

The Cat Empire - The Wine Song

Song and melodies change and change
and sway
but they still stay the same
the songs that we sung when the dark days come
are the songs that we sung when we chased them away
if I ever found a pot of gold
I′d buy bottles untold of the nectar of the vines
I′m going to die with a twinkle in my eye
‘cause I sung songs spun stories loved laughed and drank wine

Tomorrow is another day
the cats are out to play, to play
that old rusty spaceship wants to sail
into the milky way again
on a river of red red wine

Run...
(let′s have some)
Fun...
(we′ll)
Drink...
(a toast to the)
Sun...

In summer the bushfires rage and rage
and rage
on such beautiful days
and we fight them with water that runs through the cracks
water we′re desperately trying to save
so I′ll just live on wine and water my vines
and sleep on the wind with the fires right behind
and sing on the beaches and dance through the night
oh we′ll cry ′pass the wine, pass the wine, pass the wine′

Run...
(let′s have some)
Fun...
(we′ll)
Drink...
(a toast to the)
Sun...

Oh what a beautiful day today!
today′s a day to celebrate
grab your bucket, grab your spade
we′re heading down to Half Moon Bay
I saw a plane go into a cloud
I′m drunk I′m happy I′m singing and loud
two o′clock in the arvo, but hey that′s allowed...
I′m having a good time and of that I am proud

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:49

The Cat Empire - Days Like These

To the gods in the sky
there′s one thing you can do
you can send us some sun
and we′ll play you this tune
because sitting in our room
lying down with a scoob
and the sunshine
through our window

It′s days like these
that make us happy
like a puppy getting lucky
with Lassie hassle-free
hours passing by
with the beat one two
said it′s days like these kicking back
just doing what we do

Number one I′d find some
loving in the sun
with someone that can make me
growl and hum say hmmm...
a boom boom shak
and the beat that she throw at me
knocking me flat

Number two
I′d cruise where the grass is smooth
and the sound of the sea
is a dreamy melody
snooze all afternoon
till the night time wake me
cos shakedown soon

Number three
I′d be dancing like a monkey up a tree
find sweet simplicity
by kissing my honey
get funky like Bond
when he′s played by Connery
and get crafty
like Don Corleone

Four
watching Oliver jam a little more
remember the night when I saw
what i never never never seen before
Lavender wrestling a rich wild boar

CHORUS

HARRY′S NIGHT TIME RHYME

And dirty hands
I like them see
they make the music that we play
sound oh so sweet
and my mother always made me eat broccoli
and now look at me
i′m as strong as can be
so put some spice in my sauce
honey in my tea
an ace up my sleeve
and a slinky plan b
and most importantly
my mad family
they named me lucky
and for that I′ll sing about
days like these

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:48

The Cat Empire - The Chariot

This is a song that came upon me
one night
when the news it had been telling me
about one more war and one more fight
and ′aeh′ I sighed but then
I thought about my friends
then I wrote this declaration
just in case the world end

Our guns
we shot them in the things we said
ah we didn′t need no bullets
cos we rely on some words instead
kill someone in argument
outwit them with our brains
and we′d kill ourselves laughing
at the funny things we′d say

And bombs
we had them saved for special times
when the crew would call a shakedown
we break down a party landmine
women that so sexy
they explode us with their looks
ah we blowing up some speakers
jumping round till the ground shook

And missiles
they were the roadtrips that we launched
t-t-tripping across this island
starting missions at the break of dawn
yawn and smile say
′what direction shall we take?′

′Somewhere where it warm and wet′
this be the route we′d always take and

Our weapons were our instruments
made from timber and steel
we never yielded to conformity
but stood like kings
in a chariot that′s riding on a
record wheel

And our airforce flying
when the frisbee in the sky
have a session while we′re smoking
now we′re feeling extra high
and we′d sneak into a carpark
with the skaties on our back
and we′re flying down the levels howling
′on the attack now on the attack′

And battles
they happened in these dancehalls
see we′d rather fight with music
choosing one the rhythm war
battle at these shakedowns
and we battle at these gigs
we do battle in our bedrooms
made some sweet love to the beat

Then our allies grew
wherever we would roam
see whenever we′re together
any stranger feel at home
in a way we are an army
but this army not destruct
no instead we′re doing simple things
good loving find it run amuck

This be a declaration
written about my friends
it′s engraved into this song
so they know I′m not forgetting them
see maybe if the world contained
more people like these
then the news would not be telling me
about all that warfare endlessly and

Our weapons were our instruments
made from timber and steel
we never yielded to conformity
but stood like kings
in a chariot that′s riding on
a record wheel

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:48

The Cat Empire - Wanted To Write A Love Song

Sun slink down say,
Oh such a sexy time of day.
For those who call it romance
Haven′t learnt bout the
Nature of those rays?
They put some warmth in your spirit
And a twinkle in your step,
When you sing there′s an angel,
But your devil has been kept
For these nights where the sun still shine
Long after it has set.

Manic, magic, mayhem, mr might be moving massive your desire,
She shot the two tequilas wipes her lip
And starts a beaming behind that savage smile.
I wanted to write a love song eh,
But the night time sun said it′s time for play.
If these two eyes could make a sound
Then this is what they′d say...

Dream-like moments find us
With a flash they Blind us shining feline tears.
They touch you where it′s soft
Then make us mad with that music spear.
We cry tonight if it did end us
We′d have laughed ourselves to death,
Then our souls would find that shakedown
Find that heaven in our chest,
In these nights where the sun still shine
Long after it has set.

Looking, listening, lunaticing, loving, living, lusting it′s divine,
We saw the sign it said a boom shak
From the window in the sky.
I wanted to write a love song eh,
But the night time sun said it′s time for play.
If these two eyes could make a sound
Then this is what they′d say...

I wanted to write a love song eh,
But the night time sun said it′s time for play.
If these two eyes could make a sound
Then this is what they′d say...
THE CAT EMPIRE!

(I wanted to write a love song eh
But it happened the other way...
I wanted to write a love song eh
But it happened the other way...

I wanted to write a love song eh
But it happened the other way...
I wanted to write a love song eh
But it happened the other way...

I wanted to write a love song eh
But it happened the other way...)

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:48

The Cat Empire - Anymore

I would not tell you how I feel
Anymore because I′ve seen
How men find offence in reason
I save my heart for my family
My soul for work
My mind in moving
Through the world

Although my young ideal is gone
My embrace not so blind
And my trust is never certain
I try to find what′s among us
Not to unite but to realise that
To waste′s defeat

And when uncertainty reveals
When the consequences ark
And the act seems in the balance
Music is born from an instinct
And that is my truth
In the moment that I
Need it most

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:47

The Cat Empire - Cities

Oh oh oh ... Blurring facing evasive evolving
747 lands I go out strolling

Pacing lacing up the shoes
That depict a kind of blues
Get a paper read the news

Oh so many cities
Are going around in my head
Take me back to where I might belong

Traipsing trading with strangers and romance
Learnt about the nights where you live like your last chance

Oh oh oh ... I′m going to rocket with bus across the sky
Gonna catch a train through the sea
Then steal some fire

Hold on baby while the stage lights eve
When the beat ignites us Prometheus is free

Oh so many cities
Are going around in my head
Take us back to where we might belong

Oh so many people
Rolled up on these shoulders
Something give me grace oh darling please

Blurring facing evasive evolving
747 lands I go out strolling

Pacing lacing up the shoes
That depict a kind of blues
Get a paper read the news

She was a fountain in the desert and a tropical sea
Our caravan stopped temporarily

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:47

The Cat Empire - Motion

Set in motion my imagination′s miles
A million lights expose those magic cities on the Nile
and my
Young trials lead me sailing down this stream
Of hidden songs and steam and my
- Piano it floats and echoes
A moonbeam through the kite she sent
Read ‘Is your wooden boat in sight?′
And while I replied ‘it′s not′
It was in fact not far from right outside
I would surprise her wake her up and rise her
Go swimming in the night′s horizon then dry her
Offer the familiar passage of my outstretched hand

‘Say when you staying home′ she said
‘Why not come on my boat instead?′
‘Cos I′m tired of all your currents and your tides
Your moods creating whirlpools
And you′re in love with the ride and I
Want - some - peace and quiet!′

So we fought a while caught our breath a while
I told her how the purple flowers glow along the river
side
She told me all she wanted was me home with some time
I showed her how the sky was only water inclined
I told her all about the huts the kind of music we
played
She reminded me that ‘Flashes pass a house is well
made′
I told her about the spot where all the ocean′s
collide
She said that ‘You could have that with me every
night′ and so
Set in motion my imagination′s miles
A million lights expose those magic cities on the Nile
and my
Young trials leads me sailing down this stream of
hidden songs and steam and my
- Piano it floats and echoes

‘So when you coming home′ she said
‘Why not come on my boat instead?′
‘Cos I′m tired of all your currents and your tides
Your moods creating whirlpools
And you′re in love with the ride and I
...

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:47

The Cat Empire - No Mountain

No mountain can see
But sometimes a mountain can sing
Or hum at least I have heard one
Humming on the evening we ...

And no horizon can sleep
But sometimes horizons can close their eyes
And drift into one moment somewhere
Halfway between
The distance and a dream

And all my senses′ honesty
And all my senses′ honesty they belong to you

Alone I stand alone I fall
There is no option
Alone with you

And though my point of view seems sad
I believe it′s not so bad
Alone with you

And all my senses′ honesty
And all my senses′ honesty they belong to you
Alone I stand alone I fall
There is no option anymore
Alone with you
And though my point of view seems sad
I believe it′s not so bad
Alone with you
Alone I stand alone I fall
There is no option anymore
Alone with you
And though my point of view seems sad
I believe it′s not so bad
Alone with you

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:47

The Cat Empire - Two Shoes

One day one woman asked him
‘what do you to survive?’
he said ‘oh my dear listen here’
and this is what he cried

On my feet I wear two shoes for dancing
‘dancing to be free’
my feet they’re paying tribute to
the Bobby Marley legacy

My knees they’ve got some cuts and bruises
from skating all my days
when i’m skating with my friends
my troubles drift away

I say my legs they’re wearing baggy pants
I like to move around
cos getting down and jumping up
these are some good things that I found

Aeehhhiiiaaaaa
boom shak the empire be rising
Aeehhhiiiaaaaa
boom shak we making some lovin
Aeehhhiiiaaaaa
boom shak the greedy men running
Aeehhhiiiaaaaa
boom shak got two shoes for dancin

My waist it’s got a slinky belt
with a clip that’s quick to open
because loving is the sweetest thing
and from my waist it happen

And my stomachs got some tasty food
that’s making me feel good
cos sharing some meals is something
i wish the world could do

And my chest it wears a singlet
ah my chest it beating proud
my chest suggest I am a man
that no institution can knock down
And around my neck is superstition
hanging from a chain
because i’ve got my gods but in the end
I make my own way

CHORUS

My mouth it’s got a great big smile
that shows some great big teeth
to friends it brings a happiness
and to enemies it means defeat

And my eyes they’ve got some vision
that can see through many lies
ah my eyes they look for better things
the better things to see in life

And my ears are wearing head phones
that do play my favourite songs
not music i’m told to like
but the songs that make me dance along

Cos on my feet are shoes for dancing
‘dancing to be free’
my feet they’re paying tribute to
the bobby marley legacy

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:46

The Cat Empire - Fishies

I left the house left the room with the foxy on my back
And my supplies in a magic pack
And I followed the sound of music
Not up a hill ... but down to an old wharf shack

Inside I heard the trumpet call
I salute to the champions on the wall
And in the Jazz of squalls and impassioned brawls she danced

And the night she looked so fine to me
Oh I am a man on an Odyssey
And so tie me to the mast I must believe!

Wow didi didi I just had to look
I said wow didi didi how those hips they shook
Eye patch tongue ring little black hook
Welcome fishies to my hook

And the tiny chefs they waved their giant knives
And the dark goumas they flicked dynamite
Still I kept the sight of my desire

And this one thing′s sure I made no apologies
Lights dimmed but she shone my mythology
And I must admit she felt so alive

Wow didi didi I just had to look
I said wow didi didi how those hips they shook
Eye patch tongue ring little black hook
Welcome fishies to my hook

She waves for everybody down on the floor
As if to pray to the gods of the festival
And there we were in the depths of the wild below

Her face so close I could taste the distant shores
She whispered ′wait for the trumpets call′
It′s not exactly love it′s to adore

Wow didi didi I just had to look
I said wow didi didi how those hips they shook
Eye patch tongue ring little black hook
Welcome fishies to my hook

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:46

The Cat Empire - Siente

Siente L′amour but that is only half of the score
You fucking sangangui so long aufwiedersehn adiu
You had me feeling blue, but now I′m gonna jive

I am the sky
Yeh
And it′s true

Honey I′m well but the world is a little unwell
Thank you salut but would help us change and would you
help us through?

Oh my love is so strong
′But love,′ she said′s ′not all you need′

Yes my mind is open
But so is our disease

The harness is broken
Lord Lend me your hand

The sign′s clear but not spoken
This is a troubled land

This is a troubled land

Honey I′m well but the world is a little unwell
Thankyou salut but would you help us change and would
you help us through

Honey I′m well but the world is a little unwell
Thankyou salut but would you make a change and would
you help us soon?

The tiger and it′s coarse

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:46

The Cat Empire - Know Your Name

Know your name
And sing it loud
Know your na-a-a-a-ame
Though I′m saying this again
Know your name
And sing it loud

Though I listen when you talk to me
Your eyes, they seem cold
And I wish I might remind you of the time
When they held the sky
On and on the song seems to find you alone

When it rains
I hear that sound

Though I listen when you talk to me
Your eyes, they seem cold
And I wish I might remind you of the time
When they held the sky
Why′d your spirit cry? My oh my
You should have seen you in your prime

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:45

The Cat Empire - Til The Ocean Takes Us All

I love you like oil
Coming down hard
Need you so fast
Need you so right away
Like a road train
I need you babe
Let′s burn it all away
But I love you like water
You give me order
It′s getting hotter
Believe me when I say
That like a spring rain
I need you babe
But nothing last forever after all ....
I′ll love you til the ocean takes us all

This is the story of two lovers like twins
They would do lovers things blame original sin
Look into their eyes only for the meaning of the hour
As if there only everything existed in their power, yet
Lo and behold they drifted of a stream humming
How does it go? Oh ′Life is but a dream′
Well the steam became a river and the river start to tow
They, they didn′t notice at all

I love you like oil
Coming down hard
Need you so fast
Need you so right away
Like a road train
I need you babe
But nothing last forever after all ....
I′ll love you til the ocean takes us all

And on this black day the people shouted from the shore
Screaming, ′Stop gazing and swim to save us all!′
But the twins they didn′t hear at all they whispered nothings
Down the waterfall
And for what? Why did love become this void?
When the ones we love are the one we would destroy
Have you heard about the phrase says ′Ignorance is bliss′?
Well, what bliss could lead to this.

When I need you like water
You give me order
It′s getting hotter
Believe me when I say
That like a spring rain
I need you babe
But nothing last forever after all ....
I′ll love you til the ocean takes us all

Bridge

I love you like oil
Coming down hard
Need you so fast
Need you so right away
Like a road train
I need you babe
Let′s burn it all away
But I love you like water
You give me order
It′s getting hotter
Believe me when I say
That like a spring rain
I need you babe
But nothing last forever after all ....
I′ll love you til the ocean takes us all

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:45

The Cat Empire - Strong Coffee

I like the sound of St Petersburg bells banging in my head
The night train rattle and shake and rumble through that cabin bunk bed
Now Sigmund said something about this super static travel tension that we get
My magic woman met this woman while the wheels squealed and the tracks they gripped and sped

My Maria got me thinking about soul in a whole new way
We took a stroll got a ham and cheese roll and some strong coffee
On the TV it′s Germany and Italy
You be the Goalie Holly I am the referee

Hey hey I need some strong coffee
My Maria got me thinking about soul in a whole new way
Hey hey I need some strong coffee
My Maria got me thinking about soul in a whole new way

When I look down I found the edges of the mattress start to levitate
The next thing I knew we were above the city gates
Rised over steeple tops and all I can think to say was
′You be the Kremlin and I′ll be the saint
And you can be the person from the head of state′

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:45

The Cat Empire - So Many Nights

It doesn′t matter what I say It doesn′t matter what I do
It seems I′m going to have to change my look for you cos
I′ve got two shoes but they′ve been walked too far
And I thing that we could float from evening to the stars

When I see you in the distance with your friends
I look around and then I look down at my threads
It′s inappropriate that I should present like a
Retired Matador with unpaid rent

So many nights I′m still thinking about you
And so many nights you step in and I walk through
So he doesn′t care except he still combs his hair
So what am I supposed to do?

I bought a suit and I bought a top hat
And I put a red stripe down the side of my slacks
Went to the barber got my hair cut high
And I bought a ticket for the opera tonight

But when I see you your bodice and your pride
It′s nice to greet you with an interrupted stride, besides
you say ′Good Evening′ you don′t say ′Goodnight′
And I can′t deny that

So many nights I′m still thinking about you
And so many nights until I change my suit
And when I′m bare don′t need to comb my hair
Cause I found what to do

Put your waistcoat on, Put your waistcoat on

So many nights I′m still thinking about you
And so many nights you step in and I walk through
So he doesn′t care except he still combs his hair
So what am I supposed to do?

So many nights I′m still thinking about you
And so many nights until I change my suit
And when I′m bare don′t need to comb my hair
Cause I found what to do

Put your waistcoat on, Put your waistcoat on
Put your waistcoat on, Put your waistcoat on

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:44

The Cat Empire - Sly

If frisy hair was a metaphor
for festival time
then this woman is a goddess
of that festival shrine, met her
- at a jam
in that garden of sorts
I must confess god bless
some impure thoughts
“show us the money”
was the call of the night
but no money could have bought
even a piece of her pride, there might
have been a sea of people
I don’t know, because
all I could see
was how this woman she glowed so

-Aeh it’s a pleasure to meet you
ya look like one incredible creature
wanna treat you fine
lets dance and grind
get so funk-inflicted it’s a crime
you’re divine you’re sublime
and well you blow my mind

She caterpillar so good
that all the greeks go “killa”
break and enter take ya like a glass of milk
then “spill ya”
saw her coming what a scene
what I mean is
she got that sex coffee beam
but she tastes like vanilla
well alright she ignite
when we hit the floor
like the vroom on a V8 super commodore
now if it makes a good story
well it’s just worthwhile
with her’s like dealing stories
in that sprinkla style and so

-Aeh it’s a pleasure to meet you
ya look like one incredible creature
wanna treat you fine
lets dance and grind
get so funk-inflicted it’s a crime
you’re divine you’re sublime
and well you blow my mind

Дата написания: 28 Февраля 2024 06:18:44