The Cat With The Cream

Song The Cat With The Cream
Artist Belle & Sebastian
Album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

Lyrics

[00:23.89] Sitting at the old kitchen table
[00:27.96] Peace and health and dreams
[00:30.73] Stretching out in the darkness
[00:34.13] Mother's up the stairs with her ageing new boyfriend
[00:40.20] Cathy's staying in to make sure nothing happens
[00:46.08] All aboard the freak parade
[00:51.87] I cover up my head and pray
[00:57.59] I'm praying for the light
[01:11.20] Down amongst the old city chambers
[01:15.15] Men in frocks debate all the policy changes
[01:21.35] Everybody bet on the boom and got busted
[01:27.28] Everybody bet and in the government trusted
[01:33.34] Grubby little red MP
[01:39.10] Yellow flapping hopelessly
[01:45.81] Tory like the cat with the cream
[01:50.89] Tory like the cat with the cream
[01:56.57] I studied you in history
[02:02.34] I studied in the library
[02:07.93] In days of old when knights were bold
[02:13.78] They'd settle it with sword and shield
[02:19.78] In days of old when knights were bold
[02:25.29] It's settled by the king
[02:39.48] Praying for a friend is contagious
[02:43.23] Specially when it comes at the old kitchen table
[02:49.49] Listening for the swoosh of his quickening paces
[02:55.95] Watching for the smile on the bravest of faces
[03:01.36] How I wish you'd read to me
[03:08.31] Verses rich in swallows and trees
[03:13.24] Get me though the night
[03:26.48] Waiting at the old kitchen table
[03:30.34] Listening for my code listening for my instructions
[03:36.69] Surely now I'm here, I am destined for greatness
[03:42.29] I want to be the Queen pulling kids out of rivers
[03:48.54] All aboard the freak parade
[03:54.11] I cover up my head and pray
[04:00.51] I'm praying for the cat with the cream
[04:05.82] I'm praying for the cat with the cream
[04:11.64] I studied you in history
[04:17.35] I studied in the library
[04:22.97] In days of old when knights were bold
[04:28.73] They'd settle it with sword and shield
[04:34.68] In days of old when knights were bold
[04:40.32] It's settled by the king
[04:46.25] It's settled by the king
[04:52.09] It's settled by the king
[04:57.96] It's settled by the king