The Cat with the Cream

Album: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (2015)
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  • Sitting at the old kitchen table
    Peace and health and dreams
    Stretching out in the darkness
    Mother's up the stairs with her ageing new boyfriend
    Cathy's staying in to make sure nothing happens
    All aboard the freak parade
    I cover up my head and pray
    I'm praying for the light

    Down amongst the old city chambers
    Men in frocks debate all the policy changes
    Everybody bet on the boom and got busted
    Everybody bet and in the government trusted
    Grubby little red MP
    Yellow flapping hopelessly

    Tory like the cat with the cream
    Tory like the cat with the cream
    I studied you in history
    I studied in the library
    In days of old when knights were bold
    They'd settle it with swords and shields
    In days of old when knights were bold
    It's settled by the king

    Praying for a friend is contagious
    'Specially when it comes at the old kitchen table
    Listening for the swoosh of his quickening paces
    Watching for the smile on the bravest of faces
    How I wish you'd read to me
    Verses rich in swallows and trees
    To get me though the night

    Waiting at the old kitchen table
    Listening for my code, listening for my instructions
    Surely now I'm here, I am destined for greatness
    I want to be the Queen pulling kids out of rivers
    All aboard the freak parade
    I cover up my head and pray

    I'm praying for the cat with the cream
    I'm praying for the cat with the cream
    I studied you in history
    I studied in the library
    In days of old when knights were bold
    They'd settle it with sword and shield
    In days of old when knights were bold
    It's settled by the king
    It's settled by the king
    It's settled by the king
    It's settled by the king Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER GEDDES, RICHARD COLBURN, ROBERT KILDEA, SARAH MARTIN, STEPHEN JACKSON, STUART MURDOCH
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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