Nine Cats lyrics
Song information
Artist: Porcupine Tree Album: On The Sunday Of Life
Lyrics
Lyrics: alan duffy / music: steven wilson
The butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed wire trees Where golden dragons chased around Pampered poppies on the ground Two silver trout sat way on high And watched a royal samurai Plant two black orchids in a box And strap it to a laughing fox A minstrel bought a crooked spoon He gave it to a blue baboon Who filled it full of virgin snow And watched it in the afterglow
Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes Teaching sixteen kangaroos How to skip across a lake They found it hard to stay awake A pharaoh played a merry tune And watched nine cats dance on the moon I didn't know what all this meant I didn't know why I'd been sent
The insignificance version of nine cats has the following additional verse at the end:
I threw 5 clocks down on my bed The chimes danced out on golden threads And turned to footprints on my wall Sequined tears began to fall
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
"On The Sunday Of Life" album track list
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