Nothing lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

Beanni lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

The Crowd lyrics - The Cat Empire

[Chorus:]
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...

[drum beats]
[trumpet]
Lord unchain my hands (unchain my hands)
Let me sing inside the crowded trams (sing inside the crowded trams)
Let me dance [dance!]among the traffic jams (among the traffic jams)
We're going to sleep
On the St Kilda sands
(da!)
Lord unbind my feet (i said a lord.. i said a lord, unbind my feet!)
Let me mingle with the good people
We meet
Water rising up into the street (up into the street!)
Unbind my feet
oh

Manifesto lyrics - The Cat Empire

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

All That Talking lyrics - The Cat Empire

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