The Cat Empire Lyrics

Brighter Than Gold lyrics - The Cat Empire

Four steps in the morning

Two steps in the day

Three steps in the evening and the darkness is ablaze

And all the angels cease, soldiers come step to the parade

Run out like a cheetah

Monkey's in the blood

And what a piece of work is man who screams the name of love

And all his brothers, cousins, sisters and others hear it's fuzz

All night awake

In the moonlight I'm with you

Brighter than gold!

Born on the horizon

Beam me through the sky

Some have seen what none can dream but life calls it a lie

And all the sinners, saints and winners just wink and walk on by

Brando's in the forest, Nancy's in the flood

The black swan makes a pirouette, the gods cry from above

And the rain keeps falling on bare feet in the mud

All night awake

In the moonlight I'm with you

Brighter than gold!

Come Northern nights from Norway

Come sunrise from the East

Come Wicked Witches in the West, we're South-bound with the beat

And all the lions, prides and preachers come down into the street

All night awake

In the moonlight I'm with you

Brighter than,

All night awake

In the moonlight I'm with you

Brighter than gold!

Prophets In The Sky lyrics - The Cat Empire

You saw the carnival in Rio

You saw them dancing in the sun

But listen to your corazon

Can you believe you’re always on your own?

You’re like a song without a singer

You’re like a bird without a song

You’re all alone, all alone

And you’re walking down a long and dusty road

All you tricksters and hipsters and prophets in the sky...

Can you imagine

A love like that?

A love like that

This love is older than your father

This love is younger than your son

You feel it in your corazon

And it will be here when everything is gone

And as the night turns into morning

When the fire burns to coal

She whispers in your corazon

Now you know, now you know now you know

All you tricksters and hipsters and prophets in the sky...

Can you imagine

A love like that?

A love like that

You’re lost in the crowd but I know that I’ll find you

The song doesn’t lie

Under the arches of some ancient street

Between the shadow and the light

I know that pair of eyes

And with the summer comes the madness

All your faces in the night

We light our fires on the lawn

And build a temple to save us from the dawn

You can’t have everybody love you

You can’t have sunshine every day

You see her dancing there alone

Then you know, then you know, then you know

All you tricksters and hipsters and prophets in the sky...

Can you imagine

A love like that?

A love like that

Steal The Light lyrics - The Cat Empire

Sing now muse I won’t be scared

She’s wearing flowers not snakes up in her hair tonight

And love we’ve been around before

We washed up on the old shore but it’s new tonight

‘It’s only light’ she said

‘But we are liars to be free’

Ooh ooh ooh we’ll steal the light to see

The hour falls we fall to dance

Now sirens and the marching bands sing

‘It’s nothing but chance tonight’

The billion ones and many few

And everyone I never new they’re here tonight

‘It’s only light’ we said

But we are liars to be free

Ooh ooh ooh we’ll steal the light to see

What if I’m lonely?

What if the skies should fall and disappear?

For one night only

Open your eyes and run into the clear

So if I may, what if I say

‘It’s good to have you here!’

She said ‘If you lead I’ll come along

And if you need me there I’ll sing your song tonight

And all that glows and all that shines

And all we leave behind will keep them warm tonight’

‘It’s only light’ I said

But we are liars to be free

Ooh ooh ooh we’ll steal the light to see

What if I’m lonely?

What if the skies should fall and disappear?

For one night only

Open your eyes and run into the clear

I love you only

Until the skies fall down and disappear

So if I may, what if I say

‘It’s good to have you here!’

Oh oh oh…

Am I Wrong lyrics - The Cat Empire

All they tell me is hope

All they tell me is lies

I can’t hide so I run

Across the globe like a spy

But the sun makes a hole

Burning right through the sky

All my feelings are bold

And my thoughts are alive

I would follow you there

Through these thoughts to the sun

Through the black in my eye

As if ‘I’ was the one

Is it me who is lead?

Or unsaid do I lead

With these drums to the ends of all streets?

Am I wrong Mother Theresa?

It’s been so long, but I want to believe you

If a thought was a bomb

That was tripped by desire

We could light up these halls

We could dance through the fire

On an ocean of dreams

In devotion of cause

In emotion of fears

In a notion that roars out

I love you, I love you,

I love you, I love you

But I need you to cry

Or I need you to do something

Magic like sing

As if holding to life

Or I need you to fall and to fall and to fly

Am I wrong Mother Theresa?

It’s been so long, but I want to believe you

Am I wrong Mother Theresa?

It’s been so long, but I want to believe you

Am I wrong?

You called me last night

You said ‘Please stay inside’

But I was deep in the storm

I was deep in the riot

On the rise of a falling

Horizon I cried

‘Is it wrong to be born and defy?

Am I wrong Mother Theresa?

It’s been so long, but I want to believe you

Am I wrong Mother Theresa?

It’s been so long, but I want to believe you

Wild Animals lyrics - The Cat Empire

If you beat on the rock you can hear the world ring

Wake up in the morning you don’t feel a thing

Shadows gathering over your head

And it’s just like the preacher man said

He said we were born to run through the grass

Why are you living your life behind bars

Why are you living your life in the past

Give yourself a reason to sing

That you were free born you’re free born

You’re free born you’re free

Don’t let them kill the wild animals inside of you

It’s like in the movies when the rain comes down

And you take of your clothes and you

scream at the clouds

Can you remember the moment of birth

When you slipped out onto the earth

You’re a man you’re a woman

you’re not some machine

Why do you always stare at the screen

Why do you always bow your head down

I know you used to be proud

When you were free born you’re free born

You’re free born you’re free

Don’t let them kill the wild animals inside of you

Look out the tiny window frame that sits behind your desk

Past the big computer screen and the jars of fountain pens

What are you doing in this prison with your psychopathic boss

With your brokenhearted mornings and your

backstabbing friends

You were free born you’re free born

You’re free born you’re free

Don’t let them kill the wild animals inside of you

Still Young lyrics - The Cat Empire

First I saw you standing there

Eyes so wild beneath your hair

Coat worn blacker than the sun

Shook your head like Strummer strummed

We stood like soldiers in a line

Heard the bells of midnight chime

We turned grey walls to fields of green

The only fate that we could scream was

While you’re still young

Find your heart and find your song

Now where have you gone?

No matter where you’re going

And no matter where you’ve been

You never needed anybody else’s call now

I never met a one like you, never met a one like you

Never met a one like you, don’t bring me down

There’s a dream that haunts my nights

Of wild black horses out in flight

The kind of free I’d never been

A kind of beast I’d never seen

Why do all things end in pain?

I call the ghosts and ask their names

Is that love you’re running from?

If you lead then I will come

And while you’re still young

Find your heart and find your song

Now where have you gone?

No matter where you’re going

And no matter where you’ve been

You never needed anybody else’s call now

I never met a one like you, never met a one like you

Never met a one like you, don’t bring me down

Basta de cuentos

Es tiempo de lo nuestro

Tengo tu alma

Bien metida adentro

While you’re still young

Find your heart and find your song

While you’re still young

Find your heart and find your song

While you’re still young

Find your heart and find your song

Now where have you gone?

Oh oh oh...

No matter where you’re going

And no matter where you’ve been

You never needed anybody else’s call now

I never met a one like you, never met a one like you

Never met a one like you, don’t bring me down

Like A Drum lyrics - The Cat Empire

I know my way, I know my star

Marina mas allá

No one fears who we are

Marina ven para acá

Always near, always far

El cielo alcanzarás

Know my way know my star

Es vida lo que das

No me digas lo que és

Lo que viene mas allá

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

La Marina va pa’ allá

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

La Marina de Bahia

Ooh Marina, Ooh my love, Ooh Marina,

My heart is beating like a drum

my heart is beating like a drum

My heart is beating like a drum

Open Up Your Face lyrics - The Cat Empire

While the traffic hums

When the madness comes

As the wire buzzes

While the weary run

Like a flower that reaches out it's fingers to the rain

Like a bird that flies above the gutters and the graves

Open up your face

And move without a trace

You move without a trace

And the water's fine

As we drift away

Every single night

Every single day

Like a human cannonball who hears the match strike flame

Like a prisoner listening to the rumble of the train

Open up your face

And move without a trace

You move without a trace

And although you want me, I want you

You want me, I want you

When it's coming down,

Tropical rain

All the neighbours running out

On the street again

Like a cool wind blowing on some desert afternoon

Like the priest who kneels before his Mary in the gloom

Open up your face

And move without a trace

You move without a trace

And I know you want me, I want you

You want me, I want you

[repeats to end]

Go lyrics - The Cat Empire

Now take a look at what you see

Do a little walking in your sleep

All around the garden shoots of green

All around the world are human beings

they’re crying out

Living in a dream

Some of them are nightmares, some of them sweet

Every now and then someone starts to sing

Every now and then but you’re just standing there and

Staring at some message on your omnipresent phone

You’re so goddam materialistic,

man you’ve got to let it go

Now I don’t know what you’ve been told

Every little goldfish is not gold

Every little viper’s not your friend

And a million dollars is not how this story ends

Doesn’t mean a thing

Catch it on the wind, throw it to the sea

There’s a lot of old gods in the deep

Maybe you could see them if you weren’t just standing

Staring at some message on your omnipresent phone

You’re so goddam materialistic,

man you’ve got to let it go

There’s going to be a thunder in the hills

There’s going to be a red moon in the sky

People never do what they’ve been told

You’re going to have to hold your loved ones to you through

the night

Underneath the sky

Turning out the lights

Everybody comes in by the fire

Dance the night away

She looks into your eyes and

are you standing there just

Staring at some message on you’re omnipresent phone

You’re so goddam materialistic,

man you’ve got to let it go

Sleep Won't Sleep lyrics - The Cat Empire

Sleep won’t sleep her eyes won’t fall

Desire’s going to carry me down to the shore

All night on the other side

I’ll be with you on the other side

Cos Dead they dance their songs can sing

And purple flowers grow where they’ve been

All night on the other side

I’ll be with you on the other side

Endlessly come and dance with me

In the dark I see, a vision of you

I’m going down where they play all night

Where the ghosts show the living

how their shadows are so bright

All night on the other side

I’ll be with you on the other side

Recklessly come and dance with me

In the dark I see, a moment of you, only you

Endlessly come and dance with me

In the dark I see, a moment of you, only you

Waves keep crashing on the Malacon

The son keeps playing and we’re rolling on and...

All night on the other side

I’ll be with you on the other side

Sleep won’t sleep her eyes won’t fall

Desire’s going to carry me down to the shore

All night on the other side

I’ll be with you on the other side

Don't Throw Your Hands Up lyrics - The Cat Empire

Went to the river but the river was dry

Saw a little bird there caught my eye

Keep on running where are you going

I’ll tell you something I think’s worth knowing

Cities come and cities go

Time can move fast and time can move slow

You’ve only got two arms on your shoulders

Don’t throw your hands up only to cry

Don’t throw

Don’t throw your hands up only to cry

I went to the mountain what did I see?

A white beard man with a colour TV

He said can you believe these kids today

Half of them are murderers and half of them pray

For what, for what I can’t reply

You sit and you stare and it passes you by

All the rivers, the mountains, the perilous sea

Old man old man now listen to me

Don’t throw

Don’t throw your hands up only to cry

Why not live life a little bit harder

You sons don’t mind the sins of your fathers

Now they’re all dancing up in the sky now

Why not live life a little bit

Don’t throw your hands up only to cry

All Night Loud lyrics - The Cat Empire

Ever since I was 16

I wished that spring would come to me

And I wished that I could dance up on the isles

Sweat rivers on a stage of steam

I let my thoughts begin to dream

I held my breath and ran into the wild

And each night a horizon grew

In all of us or just a few

Til morning’s gold would make it disappear

Yet somewhere in my treasured chest

Is not forgot what must forget

But that’s a feeling for another year

And movement has a way like words

You’re there before the rhyme is heard

And all that one can do is shape the ride

The miles of a forgotten dream

Are yours my love it’s where we’ve been

And maybe one day soon we will arrive

Playing all night loud

Sing it all night with me

All night loud

And we went on a whirlwind trip

The nights unwound the records flipped

And stillness came like chaos in the lights

And voices like devotion flew

Across the sea from me to you

In music that I still cannot describe

And there were ugly times it’s true

Some from me and some from you

And devils have a way of digging down

But a friend is not a friend for life

Unless your life is worth the strife

So hold on we’ll be alright

Playing all night loud

Sing it all night with me

All night loud

There’s a speech that I know well

Was told by Henry V I’ll tell

A version that relates to us not war

‘He who sheds his sweat with me

Will be my friend eternally

From this day to the ending of the world!’

No matter if we’re young or old

Or in the sun or in the cold

I hope I can remember your bright eyes

Cos I know you and you know me

At least somehow mysteriously

So thank you my dear friends

and that’s goodnight

I’m much obliged

So thank you my dear friends

and that’s goodnight

I’m much obliged

So thank you my dear friends

and that’s good night

Waiting lyrics - The Cat Empire

This is the last time I will follow you
This is the last time I will follow you at all
Cos woman you're my trouble
And woman I've been trouble and despair
My only care
Is standing here waiting when you're out there

The wind comes down and all our youth is in loose pages
The wind appeared like you and left the place I'd known
Now words have lost their meaning
The words have lost their meaning and she's bored
And I am bored
I'm standing here waiting and you don't call

I'm standing here waiting and you don't call
I'm standing here waiting but you don't call
I'm standing here waiting
You took my time I still love you the same
But I fell down every time that you
Came, Came, Came
Every time that you came

The leaves fall gently and like autumn she brings sadness
The leaves are left behind and winter's in my bones
But I won't stand here crying
I won't stand here crying anymore
I'm off the floor
I'm standing here waiting for you that's all

I'm standing here waiting and you don't call
I'm standing here waiting but you don't call
I'm standing here waiting
You took my time I still love you the same
But I fell down every time that you
Came, Came, Came
Every time that you came

Falling lyrics - The Cat Empire

From the city to the world below
From the strangers to the ones I know
From the darkness to the holy glow
We burn so bright
Can we outlast the show?

From the island to the world of dreams
From the future to the times I've seen
From the righteous to the make believe
We all must leave
But I just want to breathe

Falling
My world's up and I'm almost
Falling
My hands over my shoulders
Falling
I'll dan, dance til I'm old and
Falling
Deep down, onward and

From the pilot to the golden sky
From the dash until the day we die
From the laughter to the lonely cry
We all deny
Lie and multiply

Falling
My world's up and I'm almost
Falling
My hands over my shoulders
Falling
I'll dan, dance til I'm old and
Falling
Deep down, onward and

Well I love you like a raging storm
And I miss you like I'm coming home
And I hold you like a fading song
You send me high, high, higher ... until I'm

Falling... [X2]

Feeling's Gone lyrics - the cat empire

I used to ride up on the hill
And look down at the darkened
Silhouettes of tall black windowsills
And my heart jumped every ledge
Until one bright morning when I woke
I heard bells, girl she gently spoke and said
'Choice my man's to breath or choke
So go die, or learn to hope'
Get back on your way at the end of the day
Under the fire and the rain
The whole big bloody parade until that
That feeling, feeling's gone
You wake up on your own
Sometimes walls come caving in
Sometimes the world just hits your chin
And sometimes shadows haunt your back
And sometimes I feel so flat
Then like some rare eagle on the wind
Well it turns and life comes bursting in
And the earth you thought would beat you down
Lifts up and lights your ground
Get back on your way at the end of the day
Under the fire and the rain
The whole big bloody parade until that
That feeling, feeling's gone
You wake up on your own
Lifts up and sends you homeward bound
Lifts up and then you're found again
Lifts up and turns your world around
still scarred of love lived on the ledge
And the Earth you thought would eat you up
Well it lifts you high and fills your cup carries
And right then I learnt to hope
the point of hope
I knew the way ahead to go
lifts up and clears your hallowed ground
So scared that love lived on the edge
Scared of love lived on the ledge
Like love lived on the ledge
As if my love required a ledge

bring you down
Lifts up, your heart just leaves the ground
and how you love your ground
high above the ground

and the earth you thought would end your song 'song'
lifts up and now ... the feeling's gone feelings gone

And you wonder how on Earth you
When you're high

Only Light lyrics - The Cat Empire

All along the street
They're holding signs that say
That I am lost
And that I do not know the way
I asked the rock
Sitting in a shade of grey
I asked the rock
He didn't have a thing to say

But you are the only light I see
You are the only light I need
When everybody else is sleeping
You come along and help me breathe

When I was a stone
No one knew that I was there
I'd sing my song and
No one ever really cared
I went to the mountain
Face all covered in tears
I wept but
Mountain didn't seem to hear

So you are the only light I see
You are the only light I need
When everybody else is sleeping
You come along and help me breathe

You are the only light I see [x2]

I love you
'Till the mountain starts to cry
I love you
If I don't know the reason why
I love you
Until I do not know my name
I ask you
Wouldn't you have done the same

Oh you are the only light I see
You are the only light I need
When everybody else is sleeping
You come along and help me breathe

You are the only light I see
You are the only light I need
When everybody else is sleeping
You bring the magic over me

You are the only light I see [x4]

All Hell lyrics - The Cat Empire

All hell's crashing down inside
The windows to the other side
Shimmering in rooms to quiet sighs of

'Oh well if it's happening there
It isn't here', and god appears to deal
A different hand to different tiers

But this play is not over yet
Hear the music of those marionettes
Beating drums down the quiet streets
Of ignorance and vain regrets

And all these fears swiftly come to pass
Presently she feels we're past
Cups of tea and optimistic prayers

Cos out there's our unholy mess
Gathering its long white dress
And marching down aisle to marry this

Matrimonial future bliss
Kiss the tide and hope it doesn't lift up your
Carpet woven from apathy and token frets
All Hell!

But this play is not over yet
Hear the music of those marionettes
Beating drums down the quiet streets
Of ignorance and vain regrets

The Heart Is A Cannibal lyrics - the cat empire

She hates you, then she loves you more
Underneath the shadows of her thoughts, shadows of her thoughts, she rings a bell for you
I wish that she was a statue made of gold and nobody could bring her down

[Chorus]
Goodness knows I don't like sadness, she cries before she wakes
And so my friend, if you love her, don't turn away
Don't fight it
Don't run away
We're people, and we're animals
You're thunder, and the heart is a cannibal

I ask you do you love me more than all the men that have ever come before, come before
And when I'm a storm, kiss me, hurt me, heal me with your words, so nobody can ever bring me down

[Chorus]

When love is gone, your thoughts are calm
Your words are holy, your days are long
Your blood gets older, and your face is old
And the days flow by like water
You miss the stormy weather
And she was gold

[Chorus]

Reasonably Fine lyrics - The Cat Empire

I lost my shoes I lost my wife
I lost my keys I lost my kite
And though I'm young at heart I'm so much older

Subway eyes and banked up skies
And violent towns and frozen pies
And all them football crowds who lost are cold now

But you're the same as you and I'm the same as me
And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine
Reasonably fine, at least to beat my drums in time

Suddenly I've realized
That I won't be here when I die
And life upon this plain is somehow fleeting

Time and all it's precious wine
Is somehow primed to make us whine
And fret even then when we should be sleeping

But you're the same as you and I'm the same as me
And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,
Reasonably fine, at least to play my pretty chimes

Empty cries and hollow toots
And all the signs that have no use
And fingers point accusingly are sinning

Humourless hypocrisy
And all the crimes we didn't see
The sigh that knows the devil might be winning

But you're the same as you and I'm the same as me
And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,
Reasonably fine, at least to let my music shine

And maybe it's the greatest test
A man's surrounded by his death
But reaches out and tastes the sweetest honey

That's how you make me feel
I love you more than death is real
It's sad but in the end it might be funny

That you're the same as you and I'm the same as me
And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,
Reasonably fine, at least to leave an open mind

Call Me Home (Karna) lyrics - The Cat Empire

Sometimes I feel no armour.
Sometimes I feel no ground.
Sometimes I feel the sky won't open,
And turn these words around.

At night I am woken by images of the flood, oh oh,
I'm living on the border,
I'm living on the mud.

You say there is no order.
You say there is no cause.
You say there is no reason to find,
Happiness at all.

Call me home.
Is anybody, is anybody out there?
And call me home. Is anybody, is anybody out there at all?

Have we forgot our brothers?
Have we forgot our kin?
Have we forgot who loves us dearly?
Have we forgot who's sink or swim?

And I went down to the water,
Where my heart beats slow, oh oh,
The river started flowing,
And I know where it goes.

Call me home.
Is anybody, is anybody out there?
And call me home.
Is anybody, is anybody out there, at all?
Call me home....

album: "So Many Nights" (2007)

So Many Nights lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Panama lyrics - The Cat Empire

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 whether 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

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

Fishies lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

The Darkness lyrics - The Cat Empire

Something kissed my lips
Something
Something busted my fingertips
The north binds battle
In the car park
And the darkness
Somewhere
The night is on the run
With a bottle of ouzo
And a rusty gun
The north wind
Is like a Spanish guitar
Soaked in petrol
Burning on the bar
Let the dead raise their heads
And the dying leave their beds

She didn't believe what her mama said
And she climbed out the window in the darkness

And behind you in the night
A million dogs come out to fight

In the empire that will be rising
Rising through the night

Something
Something give me strength
I'm burning
Burning on the brink
The north wind
Is like cinnamon and wine
And the darkness
Is the darkness

No Longer There lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Lonely Moon lyrics - The Cat Empire

Girl in the park one day
Killing all the bugs on the pavement
Seems like she got a nasty streak
But she does it in a beautiful way

Like a bullet from a gun
She sparks and then she runs
The only thing she's sure of
Is that no one really understands

Sometimes ... talking about
Things just seem so strange
Lie awake in the lonely night
Things just seem so strange

Maybe it's all prearranged
Tears on an empty page
Look out the window see the full moon bloom and
This is what he says, Baby

Don't you worry
When you feel so lonely, cos
Everyone's lonely
They're all crazy too
Like their mothers
Like their fathers
Everyone's crazy
Under a lonely moon

Sometimes she gets this way
About her when she sways
Slips into a liquid tune
And vanishes away
And it's only for herself
She can't bring anyone else
Everyone's got a special box
That they keep on a dusty shelf

Such a beautiful dangerous thing
Beautiful and strange
Making love to the night itself
Beautiful and strange

Maybe it's all prearranged
Tears on an empty page
Look out the window see the full moon bloom and
This is what he says, Baby

Don't you worry
If people call you crazy, cos
Everyone's crazy
They're all lonely too
Like their mothers
Like their fathers
Everyone's crazy
Under a lonely moon

Don't you worry
When you feel so lonely, cos
Everyone's lonely
They're all crazy too
Like their mothers
Like their fathers
Everyone's lonely
Under a lonely moon
Don't you worry
If people call you crazy, cos
Everyone's crazy
They're all lonely too
Like their mothers
Like their fathers
Everyone's crazy
Under a lonely moon

Sunny Moon lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

So Long lyrics - The Cat Empire

The bus drives over on a mellow scene
We've done this five nights and tomorrow's free
Oh I say, tomorrow's free
And I seem to meet it in the morning and no sleep
But I can't keep myself from wandering

Next night down in Montreal
And when it rains I guess it pours
Oh I say, when it rains it
Pours and we go down into the
Saint street keeping our feet of the ground
Till we find ourselves at breakfast in our super town

So long well hey hey hey
Though I'd see you all again
So long and hey hey hey
The bus driver yonder in the morning light
Look out of the window baby and what a sight we say
Well hey hey hey

I now a girl who's got eyes on her feet
So when she starts dreaming she roams
And she'll know where she's going
She looks alright that's Romina she's dancing on the speakers
And speaking of moving Ruben's places started
Jumping with the campisis

So long hey hey hey
Though I'd see you all again
So long and hey hey hey

Thursday was solid and Friday's cool
Saturday was messy in the best way possible
Sunday should be for rest but these
Cats on the corner and I can't keep my chest from a
Rumbling the same way it did when I was young and blessed

So long well hey hey hey
Though I'd see you all again
So long and hey hey hey
The bus driver yonder in the morning light
Look out of the window baby and what a sight we say
Well hey hey hey

So long hey hey hey
Remember me and that it's all OK now baby
So long hey hey hey

No Mountain lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Strong Coffee lyrics - The Cat Empire

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'

Til The Ocean Takes Us All lyrics - The Cat empire

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

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

Voodoo Cowboy lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Radio Song lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Won't Be Afraid lyrics - The Cat Empire

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 blue fish swim in the shade
I've imagined skies in reverse and heard stormy mountains collide
And I was there by the shore on the night when the stars all married the tide
When the time arrives
We must form a line
Would you stand and take my side
Would you take my side?
No I won't be afraid
You know I won't be afraid
When the evening takes all of the colour out of my day
And the morning is as far as it could ever be away
And now we've journeyed through the world as if our dreams were an ocean to wade
Underwater kites they glide like a friendship set on a wave
When the time arrives
We must form a line
Would you stand and take my side
Would you take my side?
No I won't be afraid
You know I won't be afraid
When the evening takes all of the colour 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
And maybe I'm not certain when they'll draw the final curtain
The woman in the water and the baby in the bath
And the morning is as far as it could ever be away
No I won't be afraid
You know I won't be afraid
When the evening takes all of the colour out of my day
And the morning is as far as it could ever be away

album: "Cities" (2006)

Cities lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Boogaloo lyrics - The cat empire

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 his own sound
And it's okay

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

Siente lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

The tiger and it's coarse

Motion lyrics - The Cat Empire

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 about the huts the kind of music we played
She reminded me that 'Flashes past a house is well made'
I told her about the spot where all the oceans 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

Song For The Day lyrics - The Cat Empire

These nights awake
Can you imagine how much time
We've spent around here?

Enough to say that we have seen
Two moons come past
Pass and turn away

Don't close your eyes
- For we
Have come to love
Tat mad white glare

Don't close your eyes for we
Would see the room depart
And sing the song for day

Singing the song
Singing the song just for the day
Singing the song
While the moons they fade away

The song that brings the night to sleep
And creeps into our eyes
For delusion makes them manic -
For delusion makes us manic
For illusion makes us sing

The song just for the day

Know Your Name lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Song For Elias lyrics - The Cat Empire

Meant to meet you but I couldn't stay
Till now never knew how life tears you away
Now I wait for the springtime in Spain
My love

A beautful being's so sad and so strong
You gave me a story you gave me a song
When he played is guitar she would weep
My love

So one rainy day that spirit took flight
She made him a cap full of magic and might
For his birthday to rule a great stage
(and perform till old age)
My love

And why did you never arrive
When we - before you left I saw tears in your eye
And your mother ust told me you
My love

Estava en Ottro Siteo

To state he was born by got rhythm within
Was to put it so mildly her crying face grinned
It would spring from all fibres of humanly everythings
My love

Nothing's sure but that love never reasons
Now the world might have lost all its springtimes
And all of the seasons are bleak without you
My love

Estava en Ottro Siteo

Meant to meet you but I couldn't stay
Till now never knew how life tears you away
Now I wait for the springtime in Spain
My love

Estava en Ottro Siteo

Down At The 303 lyrics - The Cat Empire

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 its good to have positivity
But you also muct 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 throught 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

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

Side To Side lyrics - the Cat Empire

We got soul
Soul soul soul tonight
We got soul
Shake and we provide
1.2.3.4
So step from side to side to side now
Honey 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

Waltz lyrics - The Cat Empire

Wa 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 prfection 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 a Melbourne music boxing ring
And who said that culture couldn't grow from a whim
My god there is strength when a cat learns how 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 or thin
Was born with a smile and I'll 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
Bu action I've found is a seven letter word
Pretend you want a shoebox
And find you've found the world

Luck Song lyrics - The Cat Empire

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 and 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
Move with me?

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

Anymore lyrics - The Cat Empire

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
When 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

[Scat by Harry Angus]

And when uncertainty reveals
When the consequences ark
When 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.

Miss Soul lyrics - The Cat Empire

Miss Soul won't you tell me all the pretty things you need
I got my shopping list of love right here,
Remind me what's the 1, 2, 3
And if I get you all those lovely things my working money buy
Oh won't you gimme some, could you gimme some, do I get a little piece of that honey pie?

Sunday morning hits, like a straight ball to the eye
I sit up and wonder why, now I wonder why,
Then I ask myself as I listen to the music, sweet music coming in from outside

Miss Soul won't you tell me all the pretty things you need
(Miss Soul won't you tell me all the pretty things you need)
I got my shopping list of love right here,
Remind me what's the 1, 2, 3
(I'll get your shopping list, remind you what's the 1, 2, 3)

And if I get you all those lovely things my working money buy
(And if I get you all those lovely things my working money buy)
Oh won't you gimme some, a gimme some, gimme some of your honey pie
(ya ya ya ya ya ya ya)

Sunday morning hits, like a straight ball to the eye
I sit up and wonder why, now I wonder why,
Then I ask myself as I listen to the music, sweet music coming in from outside

Sunday morning hits, like a straight ball to the eye
I sit up and wonder why, now I wonder why,
Then I ask myself as I listen to the music, sweet music coming in from outside

album: "Two Shoes" (2005)

Sly lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

In My Pocket lyrics - The Cat Empire

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 tomorow mean?
I give smile I give song
For one moments eternity

[Chorus]
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 moments eternity

[Chorus]

Lullaby lyrics - the Cat Empire

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 obscurity
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'

The Car Song lyrics - The Cat Empire

The weekend is the weekend
And it's sunny in the park
I'll stay here with my beer and fish and chips till it gets dark
I've got a lot of homework
But homework he can wait
I never start my homework till its already too late
My parents say think about your future and my teachers say the same
But it's hard
When there's a basketball game in the park
It's 1998
And everybody's saying:
"Harry, you're going to be a lawyer some day…"

It's Monday bloody Monday
And there's two things I forgot
I forgot to do my homework
And I've only got one sock
I'm halfway through a test
But I just can't concentrate
I'm sitting next to Fontaine
I want to ask her on a date
I really want to start a conversation
But each time she walks past
I start choking on my pencil
And fall flat on my ass
I need to concentrate
I have to get this grade
Or I might fail to be a lawyer someday

[BRIDGE]
But just right now
Can' think of anything better to do
Than just sit down at the piano and a write this tune
And maybe later
Maybe later in the afternoon
I'll sit back and relax
And think of all the things I'm going to do…

[CHORUS]
Someday…
I'll buy an old car
Someday…
I'll get that car to start
Someday…
I'll learn how to drive too
And then Someday…
Imagine all the things I could do.

(That was 1998 now
Bring it forward to the present day now
Cause some things have changed
but some things never change)

The weekend is the weekend
And it's sunny in the park
I'll stay here with my beer and fish 'n' chips till it gets dark
I just saw Peter Parsons
Who used to be in my class
I always gave him wedgies cause I thought he worked too hard
He said, "Harry, life is great"
I feel so happy these days
I'm a litigation lawyer
So I got it made
I'm going out with Fontaine
Rememer her from tenth grade?
I drive a Porsche so I can't complain…

[BRIDGE]
Shit! And look at me can't think of anything better to do
That just sit down at the piano and write this tune
And maybe later
Maybe later in the afternoon
I'll sit back and relax and think of all the things I'm going to do…

[CHORUS]

Two Shoes lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Miserere lyrics - The Cat Empire

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?

Sol Y Sombra lyrics - The Cat Empire

Sol y Sombra aeh Mama
Ollie's cha cha
Sing eah eah eah

Sol y Sombra aeh Papa
Kanela
Oh eah eah

Party Started lyrics - The Cat empire

Ducking out my window double story from the ground
from my hammock down my tree and into Melbourne town
now first stop hit Kanelata to Tedesco land
to down that show - with 2 shoes and a magic hand man
now it's aplan as flamenco turns to -down shakin
there's a jazz jam and Julie's got the whole joint bakin'
and anyone who's fakin' gets a quick anihilation
as we movin' destinations on the music train station singing
'on and on and on'. "on and on and on"
checkin checkin out Mr Askey's song - cos he's
late sevens' captain-on-the-mic but blows the horn so fierce
that the room ignite
it's like his shuffle got us thinking about dowing the down low so where we go?
We take the night cat stop for the cabrones show
and here's the point I stop reciting start to dance instead
I heared the city of the deep blue lights it said:
Now get the party started

It wasn't hard... to get the party started

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 ocaasional bottle of rum
As we learnt in the songs that I have previously sung
When it's done with fruit juice at a barbecue in the sun
In the afternoon is begun with kangaroo and capsicum
I do eat meat but I don't like killing
So don't crash my party whill I'm sitting back chilling
My oh my why oh why are people so violient
I ani't trying to be a lion I extend my alliance
To anyone who like to just sit back and chitchat
Maybe have a jam, spit scats and eat biscuits
Before you know it's midnight and you're running through the moonlight
And you realise...

It wasn't hard... to get the party started

The house party started about eleven or so
got a call dfrom Krido to tell me that
Dubwo and Hendo started it blow by blow
notw it's a dancehall rockin like'a Cuban mojo
so bring ya go-go's and your special friends
I've never been diving but I get the bends
when schlam and Mick and Fairooz making the soul news
see we got the bomb track and the D-floor's the fuse

The C-A-T E-M-P-I-R-E-S G-O-T
A Party H-A-P-P-E-N-I-N-G and it's a
G-O-Double N-A be seeing
The break of dawn
Then keep on rockig it
Can you tell me something about last night?

It wasn't hard... to get the party started

Protons, Neutrons, Electrons lyrics - The Cat Empire

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!

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 soul on this big blue ball,
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 AH 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]

[CHORUS AGAIN]

Saltwater lyrics - The Cat empire

I've got the clouds on a string
That I pull with my little finger elegantly
What is this oh what could this strange feeling be
It feels 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 expression is this
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.

The Night That Never End lyrics - The Cat Empire

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'

[Chorus:]
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

[Chorus]

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

1001 lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

album: "The Cat Empire" (2003)

How To Explain lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

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