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

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The Chariot

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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

The Cat Empire