Cat Power Lyrics

Wanderer lyrics - Cat Power

Oh wanderer, I've been wondering

If you brown eyes still have color, could I see?

That night, that night with those hands, those hands

That night, that night, oh, galleon ring

With heart, wild heart, you'd sing to me

Wasn't that the lady from the altar

Twist of fate would have me sing at your wedding

With baby on my mind and your soul in between

Wild heart, young man, goddamn no one to keep

When your goal is ages out for the end of your story

Give my hand to Jesus when I ran away with you

Oh wanderer, I've been wondering

In Your Face lyrics - Cat Power

You never need, you're American

You never take what you say seriously

You're on the bed

You're on the ledge of things

You've got it made

And when you wake

It's all in vain

You never said you'd do anything

You made excuses for your mind

Objective goal and collective

Don't you dare forget it

Don't you forget it

Don't you forget

Don't do it

In the age of military

You are engaged with such fanfare activity

You let them do things as they please

In a grave you're accounted for

If you were red you'd be spoken for

You're color blue is gray

In the arms of the one you love

You feel safe, you feel so above

The hunger on the streets

With your safe

And your document in its place

Your money, your gun

Your conscience, sweet like honey

You forbade yourself to think

See where you are as you begin to sink

In your mirror, in your mirror

In your mirror, in your face

You Get lyrics - Cat Power

You take-a-take and you a-gave-gave-gave what you get

And you'll make, make, make and you'll pretend what you forget

You never take time, no, you'll never take mine

But if you don't, you could be getting, you'll be getting again

If you don't, you will be getting, you'll be getting again

And would you want, you won't be on time

You cross the street, you got the feelin' on me

You never listened to the reason, you tell to me

You never listened to time, you never build up the times

You never listen, you will get, you get, you get what you get

You never listened beyond the time

And on the street, they're all talkin' 'bout the things you should listen

And on the news, they're always excusin'

And when you tell your friends what you think you ever

And, no, there's nothin' like time, to teach you where you have been

And there is nothing like time, to give you things you can need

But when you listen to the rhythm of the movements that's right

And you've been tellin' me, always tell me right

It's not nothin' I know, it's just somethin' outside

You always listen your way, but you take time to get what you want

And you tell me it's time I am wrong

And you will live in this world, and you'll get what you get

And you get what you get, and you will get what you get

But when you tell me there's another time

And when you tell me there's another time

I won't remember what you're tellin' me it's time

I won't forget, I won't forget, I won't forget that it's time

It's time, you get what you get (time)

You get what you get, you get, you get, you get what you get (time)

And you'll know when it's time, you'll get it all on yourself (time)

You'll get it again, you will be getting again (time)

On time, you'll get what you get (time)

Time, you get what you get (time)

When you take time You get what you get, you get what you get

Woman lyrics - Cat Power (feat. Lana Del Rey)

Woman, woman, woman

If I had a dime for every time

Tell me I'm not what you need

If I had a quarter I would pull it together

And I would take it to the bank

And then leave

Yes, I would take it to the bank

And then leave

If you know people who know me

You might want them to speak

To tell you 'bout the girl or the woman they know

More than you think you know about me

More than you think you know me

See you walkin' in circles (circles)

See you talkin' in circles (circles)

See your thoughts runnin' in circles

Could walk around all day long, followin' me

Doctor said I was better than ever

Man, you shoulda seen me

Doctor said I was locked in my past

He said I was finally free

Took in the trunk (took in the trunk)

Took the lead (took the lead)

I knew you ought to believe

I'm a woman of my word

Now haven't you heard?

My word's the only thing I've needed

I'm a woman of my word

Now you have heard

My word's the only thing I truly need

Woman, woman, woman, woman (woman)

Woman, woman, woman, woman

Your money's like a weapon

Tool to get me

You think I'm like the other ones

Well, my money's like a weapon (weapon)

Tool for me

No, I'm not like those other ones

Cage's like a weapon

Tool for me

You think I'm like the other ones

Well, my cage is a weapon

It's perfect for me

It's the one suit that seem to not see

I'm a woman of my word

Now haven't you heard?

My word's the only thing I've needed

I'm a woman of my word

Now you have heard

My word's the only thing I truly need

Woman, woman, woman, woman

Woman, woman, woman (I'm a woman, I'm a woman, I'm a woman, I'm a woman)

I'm a woman, woman, woman, woman

Woman, woman, woman (I'm a woman, I'm a woman, I'm a woman, I'm a woman)

Woman, woman, woman, woman

Horizon lyrics - Cat Power

Mother, I know your face

Father, still hold your place

Sister, I'm around you

Remember me

Brother, I'm on my way

I'm visiting

Little sister, I know from where your brown eyes get

Your face on horizon I cannot see

Your face on horizon I cannot say

Mother, I wanna hold your hand

Father, I need you to be a man

Sister, if there's any help in me

I'm always on my way

Little brother, let's get on to travel

Let's get up to something

Little sister, can I have this dance?

You're on the horizon I cannot stay

You're on the horizon I'm on my way

You're on the horizon

And he looked the other way

Stay lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Rihanna)

Not really sure how to feel about it

Something in the way you move

Makes me feel like I can't live without you

And it takes me all the way

I want you to stay

Want you to stay

Round and around and around and around we go

Oh, now tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know

Oh, the reason I hold on

Oh, 'cause I need this hole gone

Funny you're the broken one

But I'm the only one who needed saving

When you never see the light

It's hard to know which one of us is caving

Not really sure how to feel about it

Something in the way you move

Makes me feel like I can't live without you

And it takes me all the way

I want you to stay

Want you to stay

Round and around and around and around we go

Oh, now tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know

Oh, the reason I hold on

Oh, 'cause I need this hole gone

Funny you're the broken one

But I'm the only one who needed saving

When you never see the light

It's hard to know which one of us is caving

Not really sure how to feel about it

Something in the way you move

Makes me feel like I can't live without you

And it takes me all the way

I want you to stay

Want you to stay

Black lyrics - Cat Power

La Grande Faucheuse

Angel of death

Let me tell you a story about Black

The one memory, and the one who threw it right back

He was down so I took a ride

He moved the best way outta there so I took his advice

Oh, two seconds flat

If I'd have known he would've treated me like that

Whoa, two seconds flat

How was I to know he woulda done me like that

He had an empty gaze in his eyes like a [?]

Took me firmly, and threw the coat away, just like a fox he said

Oh, who was lookin' atchya?

Who was a good kid when God was lookin' after ya?

Whoa, who will make it through?

How was I to know he would've done this to you?

He made his move then I was down on the lawn

I kept askin' to come up for luck

I would take it and he would turn it in, wait

Lemme catch my breath that's Black, if you can catch him with it

I was someone who believed in sin, he said

I think I know just who that is

Whoa, who was lookin' atchya?

Who was a good kid when God was lookin' after ya?

Whoa, who will make it through?

How was I to know he would've done this to you?

A dead man now once was a friend

He ran all the way upstairs just to make my defense (Saved me)

Threw me in the bath with the ice and a slap

Can of coke down my throat, almost his whole hand fittin' in (I was dyin')

First I was amused, close to death ever been

But when the white light went away I knew death was settin' in

If I knew I would tell ya

To keep trouble off, I'd tell ya

You're the next one to get

Left with this story, that's when you go mad, that's Black

Oh (Angel of death) who's now lookin' atchya?

Who'll be a good kid now that I'm lookin' after ya?

Oh, who'll make it through?

How was I to know Black woulda turned from me to you?

Angel of death

Robbin Hood lyrics - Cat Power

When I walk from the bright side

Carrying my clothes, going back inside

Ooh, Robbin

Ooh, Robbin Hood

When I walk home outside

Don't be caught after 8, you know why

Ooh, Robbin

Ooh, Robbin Hood

Little lady on the street side

Little bitty baby in her arms so tight

Ooh, Robbin

Ooh, Robbin Hood

Big fat cat, biggest piece of the pie

High top hat, there's no disguise

Ooh, Robbin

He's robbing you

Gun to your head, they want solely your money

Robbing my mind with all the gloves only

Ooh, Robbin

Ooh, Robbin Hood

When I walk from the bright side

Got to cover my head to my ankle or die

Ooh, Robbin

Ooh, Robbin Hood

oh, Robbin Ooh, Robbin Hood

Nothing Really Matters lyrics - Cat Power

When I see your face in the crowd

With a look of obsession

There's no subtle way to say

There's plenty of defense and discretion

Even with what's left

All the gifts put outside

It's like nothing really matters

How can other people's ways

Be an estimate of your way of life?

Can't the words, and birds, and trees, and Earth

Be the same thing, and be just as right?

It's hard, a learned test

It's so hard, a learned test

It's like nothing really matters

It's like nothing really matters to them

The courage to turn it around

If he could see the different way

If he could turn it on its knee and bend it down

It wouldn't really matter

But outside, a learned test

A learned test

Me Voy lyrics - Cat Power

I am leavin'

Me voy, me voy

Good is gone

I am goin'

Me voy, me voy

Good, good is gone

Oh, oh

I am leavin'

Me voy, me voy

Good is gone

I am goin'

Me voy, me voy

Good, good is gone

Oh, oh

No more

Wish you could stay tomorrow

Wish you would stay

Don't go tomorrow

Don't go anyway

I am leavin'

Me voy, me voy

Good is gone

I am goin'

Me voy, me voy

Good, good is gone

Oh, oh

No more, no

Oh, oh

No more

Wish you could stay tomorrow

Wish you would stay

Don't go tomorrow

Don't go anyway

Wanderer / Exit lyrics - Cat Power

Oh, wanderer

I'll be here wondering

If your brown eyes still have color

Could I see?

That night, that night

With those hands, those hands

That night, that night

Oh, galleon ring

With heart, wild heart

You would sing to me

Who is now the lady from the other town

Twist of fate would have me sing your name

With a baby on my mind

And your soul in between

Wild heart, young man

Goddamn, I never wanted to keep

If your goal is

Ages off before the end of your story

Give my hand to Jesus

When I ran away with you

Oh, wanderer

I've been wandering

Oh, wanderer

I'll be wandering

Cherokee lyrics - Cat Power

Never knew love like this

The wind, the moon, the earth, the sky

Sky so high

Never knew pain like this

Everything die, then die

Never knew love like this

The sun, the sea, you and I (you and I)

Never knew pain, never knew shame

Now I know why

Bury me, marry me to the sky

Marry, marry me to the sky

If I die before my time

Bury me upside down

Cherokee, kissing me

When I’m on my way down

If I die before my time

Bury me upside down

Cherokee, kissing me

When I’m, I’m going down

Never knew love like this

The wind, the moon, the earth, the sky

Sky so high

Never knew pain like this

Everything die, then die

Never knew love like this

The sun, the sea, you and I (you and I)

Never knew pain, never knew shame

Now I know why

Bury me, marry me to the sky

Marry, marry me to the sky

If I die before my time

Bury me upside down

Cherokee, kissing me

When I’m on my way down

If I die before my time

Bury me upside down

Cherokee, kissing me

When I’m going down

If I die before my time

Bury me upside down, down

Cherokee, kissing me

When I’m on my way down

Sun lyrics - Cat Power

Here comes, here comes, here comes the Sun

It’s hot, it’s hot, and close to us

Can guess, yes it is, here’s the day

We’re free, with me, we can finally run

If you catch a swing we can save the Sun

You come too close, and all is burning

Here it comes, here it comes, it’s still warm

Here it comes, here it comes, we’re all so tired of waiting

You said, you said who you are (You said, you said)

I wanna hear the answer to every question

It’s not that I never wanted, I just never knew

If you can, if you could lend you hand

This is the day people like we’ve been waiting for (O-oh-oh)

Waiting for (O-oh-oh)

So tired of waiting

O-oh-oh

Ruin lyrics - Cat Power

I've seen gypsies who made it all the way

And kept going, kept rolling with nowhere to go

Nowhere to go.

As far as I've seen, from the bush

In the wilderness, to every known city

I've been to Saudi Arabia, dug up Calcutta

So I went to Mozambique, Istanbul, Rio, Rome

Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Taiwan, Great Britain

Belfast, to the desert, Spain

Some little bitty island in the middle of the Ṗacific

All the way back home, to my town

To my town

Bitching, complaining, yet some people who ain't got sh*t to eat

Bitching, moaning, so many people you know what they got

What are we doing?

We're sitting on a ruin

What are we doing?

We're sitting on a ruin

As far as I've seen, from the bush

In the wilderness, to every known city

I've been to Saudi Arabia, dug up Calcutta

So I went to Mozambique, Istanbul, Rio, Rome

Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Taiwan, Great Britain

Belfast, to the desert, Spain

Some little bitty island in the middle of the Ṗacific

All the way back home, to my town

To my town

Bitching, complaining, yet some people who ain't got sh*t to eat

Bitching, moaning, so many people you know what they got

What are we doing?

We're sitting on a ruin

What are we doing?

We're sitting on a ruin

What are we doing?

We're sitting on a ruin

What are we doing?

We're sitting on a ruin

3,6,9 lyrics - Cat Power

I feel, I feel tired, awake all night

Head so heavy like a wastebasket

I feel a choke, emotionally broke

Here on my belly in the still of the night

I feel alone

I want out, out on my own

I want everything I own

I find letters, pictures

Memories of what you can't seem to let go

In your bedside table, in your pocket

In your wallet, you know

Abusive, a stranger in bed

Elusive, forget everything you said

You got a right to have that hand on your arm

But the moment you hit it you're on your own

You already took over

Want, now you want to hit the road

Your love is like a steamboat running on a need to float

I don't need 5 times a day

To tell me to go

[Hook]

3, 6, 9, you drink wine

Monkey on your back, you feel just fine

[Bridge]

The things you really wanted

Is the thing you want

Aaaaaaaah

Fuck me

Always On My Own lyrics - Cat Power

I was always on my own

Look in my eyes and see the one

Funny nonsense, on and on

Tell me no lie, under your love

Back to back, tick tock, has begun

Look in my eyes and see the one

Funny nonsense, on and on

Tell me no lie, under your love

Back to back, tick tock, has begun

[?]

Oh, oh, work your love

I want to live my way of living

Real Life lyrics - Cat Power

I met a doctor, he want to be a dancer

I met a mother, she want to be alone

I met a preacher, he want to be sinister

I met a kid, he want to be unknown

Nothing's wrong with helping the strong

Nothing's wrong to live your day long

Nothing's wrong, nothing's wrong

[Hook:]

Real life is ordinary

Sometimes you don't want to live (Want to live)

Sometimes you gotta do what you don't want to do

To get away with an unordinary life

I met a teacher, he want to be a dreamer

I met a sister, she want to meet her maker

I met a poet, he want to be a joke

I met a dog, he just want a bone

[Hook x3]

Get away [x32]

Human Being lyrics - Cat Power

You've got a right

You've got a right, you're a human being

You're a human being

You've got a right to scream

When the dark one's here to stay

You've got a right to be

What you want and where you wanna be

You've got a right to breathe

To breathe

You've got a right

You're a human being

You've got your own voice so sing

You've got two hands, let's go and make anything

We all got rules we all have to break

We all have to make those mistakes

When I say, I know the way, I'm only trying

No don't nobody know where the road to life is really lying

See the people on TV get shot in their very own street

People just like you, people just like me

Can't you see you cut your hand on the advantages

You could stand to manage your damages

You, my dear, are a force to feed, not to fear

You've got a right to anywhere, anything

You've got a right, you've got a right

You're a human being

You've got a right to anywhere, anything

You've got a right, you've got a right

You're a human being

Got a right, got a right, got a right, got a right

Got a right, got a right, got a right

Got a right, got a right, got a right, got a right

Got a right, you're a human being

Got a right, got a right, got a right, got a right

Got a right, got a right, human being

Got a right, got a right, got a right, got a right

Got a right, you're a human being

Manhattan lyrics - Cat Power

The hotel above and the street below

People come and people go

All the friends that we used to know

Ain't coming back

You say your heart has a rhythm

Well see you got your secret on

You say hey and nothing to hide

You and your secret life

Don't look at the moon tonight

You'll never be never be never be Manhattan

Don't look at the moon tonight

You can never be never be never be never be Manhattan

Your badge and your suitcase on

Your suit and your hair's not right

Cause nobody knows this woman by your side

It's not me you know, it's a useful woman by your side

Manhattan

See your heart has a rhythm

Well see you got your secret on

She say hey and nothing to hide

You and your secret life

Don't look at the moon tonight

You'll never be never be never be Manhattan

Don't look at the moon tonight

You can never be never be never be never be Manhattan

See your heart has a rhythm

You got your secret on

And you say you got nothing to hide

You, you, you and your secret life

You'll never be never be never be Manhattan

Hollerin' at me hollerin' at you

Liberty in the basement light

Free speech, lipstick and the moonlight

Howling to get me, howlin’ to get you

In Harlem, in a dark back room

Dancing to a different tune

Howling at me, howling at you

Silent Machine lyrics - Cat Power

Walking through woods in the streets every nights

I walked into people who walk too close

Into each other they're hanging so bright

I am told as a mother you may remember her

In the name of the father but never the ghost

Me I need the money for those just as hard

Who hung he said for the ladies I'll pretend That he did

She loves you, she loves you, she loves you so hard

The wonder the person to have you cannot

Charley is a sinner, tell me teacher

To put on your light and then turn around

Ah ah ah!

Silent machine is here to make sure

To put on your light and then turn around

You lie, you lie, you lie...a lie

She loves you, she loves you, she loves you so hard

The wonder the person to have you cannot

Charley is a sinner, tell me teacher

To put on your light and then turn around

If there ever was a religious figure

In my age it don't count to have butter cup house

She loves you, she loves you, she loves you so hard

The wonder the person to have you cannot

Charley is a sinner, tell me teacher

To put on your light and then turn around

Silent machine is here to make sure

To put on your light and then turn around

You lie, you lie, you lie...a lie

Ah ah ah!

Nothin' But Time lyrics - Cat Power

I see you, kid, alone in your room

You got the weight on your mind

And you're just trying to get by

Your world is just beginning

And I know this life seems never-ending

But you got nothing but time

And it ain't got nothing on you

You know what you got to do

You ain't got nothing but time

And it ain't got nothing on you

Let 'em in one by one

Keep 'em safe from all the harm

Let 'em in one by one

Keep 'em safe

Yeah but

[Hook:]

They wanna live you wanna be somebody

They want to give and be wanted

They want to forgive and not be forgotten

They want to reach the end

They want to live

Their way of living, their way of living

I see you, kid, alone in your room

I see you, kid, You got the weight on your min

You're just trying to get by but your world is just beginning

And I know this life seems never-ending

It's up to you, It's up to you you know

It's only time, it ain't' got nothing on you

It's nothing but time, and it ain't got nothing on you

Never give away, never give away your body

Never, never give away your friends

Ever, never give away what you always wanted

Never, never ever give in

[Hook]

They want to live

Their way of living

You want to live - My way of living

You want to live - I want to live

[x2]

You ain't got nothing but time

And it ain't got nothing on you

[x4]

Your world is just beginning

[x2]

It's up to you to be a superhero

It's up to you to be like nobody

You ain't got nothing but time

For your way of living

And it ain't got nothing on you

You ain't got nothing but time

And it ain't got nothing on you

Peace And Love lyrics - Cat Power

Peace and love is a famous generation

I'm a lover but I'm in it to win [x2]

[Hook:]

Na na na na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na na na

Everybody got shit to pay

Can’t go lala with fafa hu-rah-rah

Gotta go dealing with DaDa for nada

It ain’t appropriate that I’m stoked that I get

A hundred-thousand hits on the internet

But that don't mean a shit

Even if you're legitimate

I want to feel honey now, like I got money now

But that don't mean a shit

Even if you're legitimate

[Hook]

I used to have scrounge money, on the ground money

Choosing Black Flag was choosing a race

They had a name for us, it was despicable

So disrespectable, we're like the dirty chemical

We were so attracted to mappable

People just wanted us to blend in and fade

Oh, you’re a horror now, a visual foul

When I was a teen, I had incredible dreams

99% y'all, it's in the wall y'all

Constitution's fine you're choosing a school

So our kids know who’s spinnin’ the globe

Peace and love is a famous generation

I'm a lover but I'm in it to win

Peace and love is a famous generation

I'm a lover but I'm in it to win

Peace and love is a famous generation

I may be a lover, but I'm in it to win

Peace and love is a famous generation

I'm a lover but I'm in it to win

[Hook]

Fire lyrics - Cat Power

You set the greatest thing on fire

You laid down where you lay

You grow and grow and grow higher

Somebody like you

Somebody like

You set the greatest thing on fire

You laid down where you lay

You grow and grow and grow higher

Somebody like you

Somebody like you (higher)

Somebody like

You set the greatest thing on fire

You laid down where you lay

You grow and grow and grow higher

Somebody like you

Somebody like you (higher)

Somebody like you

Somebody like

You set the greatest thing on fire

You laid down where you lay

You grow and grow and grow higher

Somebody like you

Higher

Somebody like you

Somebody like

Somebody like you

Back In The Days lyrics - Cat Power

Remember back in the days

I used to abstain

Jump across before daybreak

Back to '92 again

Drinking brew again

Never going back to school again

I used to abstain, abstain, abstain

Dressed in white

Running in the rain

And I never complained

Now I'm in all black

'Cause I'm stacked

With mad guilt on my back

I've given my name

Beat down like a freak down town

When nobody came on the bad days

How much medicine you wanna do you in

Pharmaceuticals

Coochie coochie

Always thought I'd be dead in a grave

It's a good day when you know you got cloud on a cloudy day

I've given my name

Oh Mrs., let us discuss a suitor

Get up, shut up and get out the frame

With the win-win even with material bends

Let [?] call me

Confident through the whole damn game

Always thought I'd be dead in a grave

I used to abstain, abstain, abstain

Always thought I'd be dead in a grave

I've given my name

I used to abstain, abstain, abstain

Always thought I'd be dead in a grave

I've given my name

I used to abstain, abstain, abstain

Amazing Grace lyrics - Cat Power (with Dirty Delta Blues)

Amazing Grace

How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost, I was blind

I was poor and hungry

Amazing grace set me free

(Set me free)

Oh good people've been here over ten thousand years

Everyone bright as shining sun

We've got no less days to sing God's praise

From the time that we began

It would be Grace, that will bring me safe and home

Amazing Grace

How sweet the sound

That saved every wretch just like me

Well I was lost, I was blind

I was poor and hungry

Amazing Grace

You know the rest

Well through many dangers, toils and snares

We have already come

Love continues to set me free

You taught me dignity

Toop Toop (A Tribute to Zdar) lyrics - Cat Power & -M-

(originally by Cassius)

After the world we all see

Get my answers from a machine

You could put on the line

So I get some peace of mind

Can't keep trying at night

Got no more strength to keep up the fight

Hanging on to hear the ring

All I get is a machine

Toop toop

After the world we all see

I get my answers from a machine

You could just put me on the line

So I can get peace of mind

After the world we all see

I get my answers from a machine

You could put me on the line

So I get peace of mind

I can't keep trying at night

Got no more strength to keep up the fight

Hanging on to hear the ring

All I get is a machine

Toop toop

After the world we all see

I get my answers from a machine

You could just put me on the line

So I get a peace of mind

I can't keep trying at night

No more strength to keep up the fight

Hanging on to hear the ring

All I get is a machine

Toop toop (toop)

Toop toop

What The World Needs Now lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Jackie DeShannon)

What the world needs now is love, sweet love

It's the only thing that there's just too little of

What the world needs now is love, sweet love

No, not just for some but for everyone, for everyone

Lord, we don't need another mountain

There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb

There are oceans and rivers enough to cross till the end of time

What the world needs now is love, sweet, sweet love

It's the only thing that there's just too little of

What the world needs now is love, sweet, sweet love

No, not just for some but for everyone, for everyone

Lord, we don't need another meadow

There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow

There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine

Oh listen, Lord, if you want to know

What the world needs now is love, sweet love

It's the only thing that there's just too little of, too little of

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, sweet love

Wish I Was Here lyrics - Cat Power and Coldplay

(from "Wish I Was Here" soundtrack)

[Cat Power:]

It's been a night

Such a night

Such a long night

Watch myself disappear

Into the wild side

Said good bye to my hard side

Sang, saw a jackal appear

Every road, that's wrong

Seems like the road, I'm on

Every sign just seems unclear

Won't you come switch me on

Don't know where I've gone

And I, I wish I was here

In a fight, such a fight

Hell of a fight

I'm not lying, this I swear

[Cat Power and Coldplay:]

The demons that hide inside

To the wild, why am I tired

How come I'm never there

[Cat Power:]

Every road, that's wrong

Seems like the road, I'm on

Every sign just seems unclear

Won't you come switch me on

Don't know where I've gone

And I, I wish I was here

Working Class Hero lyrics - Cat Power (feat. Iggy Pop)

(originally by Marianne Faithfull)

As soon as you're born they make you feel small

By giving you no time instead of it all

Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool

Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules

A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years

Then they expect you to pick a career

But you really can't function you're so full of fear

A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

(Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV)

And you think you're so clever and classless and free

But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still

But first you must learn how to smile as you kill

If you want to be like the folks on the hill

A working class hero is something to be

A working class hero is something to be...

EP: "Dark End Of The Street" (2008)

Dark End Of The Street lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by James Carr)

At the dark end of the street
That's where we will always meet
Hiding in shadows where we don't belong
Living in darkness to right our wrong

You and me at the dark end of the street
You and me

I know time's gonna take its toll
We have to pay for the love we stole
It's a sin and we know it's wrong
But our love keeps comin' on strong

Steal away to the dark end of the street

They're gonna find us
They're gonna find us
Someday they may come along and find us alone somewhere

You and me at the dark end of the street
You and me

And when the daylight cover rolls around
And if by chance we're both taken in and taken downtown
But if we should meet before then, then just walk on by
Oh, sweet baby, please don't you cry

Cuz tonight we'll share the same dream
At the dark end of the street
You and me
You and me
You and me

At the dark end of the street

Fortunate Son lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, the red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"
They point the cannon right at you, Lord

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Ah, they really help themselves
But when the tax man comes to the door
Lord, the house look a rummage sale, oh yeah

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war
And when you ask them, "How much should I give?"
Oh, they only answer, "More"

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no military son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

It ain't me, it ain't me, no
It ain't me, it'll never be me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Ye Auld Triangle lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Brendan Behan)

A hungry feeling, came o'er me stealing
And the mice they were squealing in my prison cell
And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.

Oh to start the morning, the warden bawling
Get up out of bed you, and clean out your cell
And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.

Oh the screw was peeping and the lag was sleeping
As he lay weeping for his girl Sal
And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.

On a fine spring evening, the lag lay dreaming
And the seagulls were wheeling high above the wall
And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.

Oh the wind was sighing, and the day was dying
As the lag lay crying in his prision cell
And that auld triangle, went jingle bloody jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.

In the female prison there are seventy women
And I wish it was with them that I did dwell
And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal

I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Otis Redding)

I've been loving you too long to stop now
There were time and you want to be free
My love is growing stronger, as you become a haven to me
Oh I've been loving you a little too long
I don't wanna stop now, oh
With you my life,
Has been so wonderful
I can't stop now
There were times and your love is growing cold
My love is growing stronger as our affair (affair) grows old
I've been loving you a little too long, long,
I don't want to stop now
oh, oh, oh
I've been loving you a little bit too long
I don't wanna stop now
No, no, no
Don't make me stop now
No baby
I'm down on my knees Please, don't make me stop now
I love you, I love you,
I love you with all of my heart
And I can't stop now
Don't make me stop now
Please, please don't make me stop now
(Good god of mine)I love you
I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I love you in so many different ways...
I love you in so many different ways

Who Knows Where The Time Goes lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Sandy Denny)

Sad, deserted shore
your fickle friends are leaving
but i am not alone
while my love is near

who knows where the time goes?
who knows where the time goes?

sad, deserted streets
your fickle friends are leaving
i still count the time
when my love was here

who knows where the time goes?

It Ain't Fair lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Aretha Franklin)

People
All around me
But I don't even
Have a friend
Lord knows
I been trying
And he knows
I just can't win
Everything I do
Yeah
Seems to turn
Out wrong
Sometimes
I wish now
That I never
Been born
Whoa

Nobody
Nobody cares
Nobody cares
Baby
You know
I've had my share
Just ain't fair
(Just ain't fair)
Just ain't fair
(Just ain't fair)

Some folks
Got it easy
They live
The life of love
And play
Lord knows
I got
To struggle now
Trying
To make my way

Yeah
I'm walking all day
I'm gonna
Reach the town
I believe
I hope
I can make it yeah
Beacuse my feet
Ain't gonna
Let me stop
Talking about
Jesus

Nobody
Nobody cares
Nobody cares
Baby
I've had my share
Just ain't fair
Just ain't fair
It just ain't fair
It just ain't fair
It just ain't fair
I've had my share

album: "Jukebox" (2008)

New York lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Liza Minnelli)

Start spreadin' the news
I'm leavin' today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York

These vagabond shoes
Are longin' to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep
To find I'm cream of the crop and top of the heap

These little-town blues
Are meltin' away
I'll make a brand-new start of it
Oh, in New York

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
New York
It's up to you
New York

Ramblin' (Wo)man lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Hank Williams)

Well I love you baby
But you got to understand
When the Lord made me
He made a ramblin' woman
He made me, he made me

Some folks
Some folks might say that I'm no good
That I wouldn't settle down if I only could
I love to see the towns go crawling by
There's something I've got to do
Before I die

I love you baby
But you got to understand
When the Lord made me
He made a ramblin' woman
He made me, he made me

Some people say
That I do just fine
Cause I hear sweet song
Moving down
And when that old southern train comes calling me
There's something over the hill
I just got to see

Well I love you
I love you baby
But you've got to understand
When the Lord made me
He made me
He made a ramblin' woman
He made me, he made me

Now when I'm gone
When I'm gone and at my grave you stand
Just say God's called home your ramblin' woman

I love you
I love you baby
But you've got to understand
He made me, a ramblin' woman
He made me

Metal Heart lyrics - Cat Power

Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
You're losing the calling that you've been faking
And I'm not kidding

It's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do
Be true, 'cause they'll lock you up in a sad, sad zoo
Oh, hidy-hidy-hiding, whatcha trying to prove?
By hidy-hidy-hiding
You're not worth a thing

Sew your fortunes on a string
And hold them up to light
Blue smoke will take
A very violent flight
And you will be changed and everything
And you will be
In a very sad, sad zoo

I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see you
How selfish of you
To believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming

Metal heart, you're not hiding
Metal heart, you're not worth a thing

Metal heart, you're not hiding
Metal heart, you're not worth a thing

Silver Stallion lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Lee Clayton)

I'm gonna steal a silver stallion
With not a mark upon his silky hide
Teach him he can trust me like a sister
One day we'll saddle up and ride

And we're gonna ride
We're gonna ride
Ride like the one-eyed Jack of Diamonds
With the Devil close behind
We're gonna ride
We're gonna ride...

I'm gonna find me a reckless man
Razor blades and ice in his eyes
Just a touch of sadness in his fingers
Thunder and lightning in his thighs

And we're gonna ride
We're gonna ride
Ride like the one-eyed Jack of Diamonds
With the Devil close behind
We're gonna ride
We're gonna ride...

I'm gonna chase the sky forever
With the man, the stallion and the wind
The sun is gonna burn into a cinder
Before we ever pass this way again

And we're gonna ride
We're gonna ride
Ride like the one-eyed Jack of Diamonds
With the Devil close behind
We're gonna ride
We're gonna ride...

Aretha, Sing One For Me lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by George Jackson)

Me and my baby, we had a big fight
We ended our romance the same night
In an angry mood, he walked out the door
I said this song's going to an Aretha Franklin show

Hey, Aretha, sing one for me
Let him know our life's in misery
Will you sing a song that will touch his heart
And make him sorry that we are apart

I don't know if taking requests is part of your show
Do me this favor and I'll love you forever
Many romances have been saved by your sound
You've touched so many lovers, so many times

Hey, Aretha, sing one for me
Let him know our life's in misery
Will you sing a song that will touch his heart
And make him sorry that we are apart

"Think", "Respect", "Call Me", "A Bridge Over Troubled Waters"
And "I Can't See Myself Leaving You"

Hey, Aretha, sing one for me
Let him know our life's in misery
Will you sing a song that will touch his heart
And make him sorry that we are apart

"Think", "Respect", "Call Me", "I Never Loved a Man Like I Love You"
And "I Can't See Myself Leaving You"

Lost Someone lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by James Brown)

I lost someone
A million to one
Ten thousand people
Under my false

Someone, the one, my one
The only one
That's the someone
The someone
The only one
That someone
That I lost

He's nothing but a stranger
Come on home to me
I'm so weak on my knees
Help me, help me please
Please, please
Good god almighty I love you

I lost someone
One trillion to one
A million people
Under the big old sun I see
My one on the street
Looking like a bum
That's my one
That's my someone
He's the one
He's
Help that one

He's nothing but a stranger
Bring him home to me
He's so weak on both his bended knees
Can you help me, help me please
Gee whiz, I miss the one that I need
I lost someone

Lord, Help The Poor And Needy lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Jessie Mae Hemphill)

Lord, help the poor and needy in this land, in this land...
when we all raise together and face the rising sun
Lord, help the poor and needy in this land

Lord, help the motherless children in this land, in this land...
when we all raise together and face the rising sun
Lord, help the motherless children in this land

Lord, help the war-torn peoples in this land, in this land...
when we all raise together and face the rising sun
Lord, help the war-torn peoples in this land

I Believe In You lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Bob Dylan)

They ask me how I feel
And if my love is real
And how I seem to think that I know I'm gonna make it through.
They look at me and frown,
They drove me from this town,
They don't want me around
'Cause I believe.

They show me to the door,
They said don't come back no more
We don't like the way you think you do.
So I walked out on my own
One thousand miles from home
But I don't feel alone
'Cause I believe.

I believe in you even through the all tears and laughter,
I believe in you even though we're apart.
I believe in you even on the morning after.
Oh, when the dawn is nearing
When the night is disappearing
This feeling will still be here in my heart.

Please don't let me drift too far,
Keep me safe and same where you are
So I can always be renewed.
And what you've given me here today
Is worth everything I could pay
And no matter what everyone will say
'Cause I believe
I believe, I believe,
I believe, I believe in you.

I believe in you when we've had no time together.
I believe in you when white turns to black,
I believe in you even though we'll all be outnumbered.
Oh, the earth will be shakin'
And friends will be forsaken
Please, we can't go back.

Song To Bobby lyrics - Cat Power

I wanna tell you
I've always wanted to tell you
But I never had the chance to say
What I feel in my heart from the beginning til my til my dying day

I was fifteen, sixteen maybe
In the park I was waving my arms
You were wet with sweat
And you sang the song I was screaming
I wanted you to

Another time was in South Carolina
It's always been the third encore
Whose wind came blowing in
Can you tell me who were you singing for
Oh my God, can you tell me who you were singing to

A phone call from your New York City office
You were supposedly asking to see me
And how I wanted to tell you
That I was just only four hundred miles away
Who could believe that you were calling I was in DC
I was four hundred miles behind
Backstage pass in my hand
Giving you my heart was my plan I wish I could tell you

My chance
In the middle of the stadium in Paris, France
Can I finally tell you
Can I finally tell you
To be my man
April in Paris, can I see you
Can you please be my man

Don't Explain lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Billie Holiday)
Hush now, don't explain
You're the cause of all my trouble and pain
Unless you're mine
Don't explain

My love, my love, my love, don't explain
There is nothing within me now to gain

You know that I love you, but look at what lovin' has done
All my thoughts were real and so sincere
I was so completely yours.

I know I hear folks ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-chatter
And I know you cheat
Right or wrong, right now it doesn't matter
You're with me, sit down, have a seat,
It's your turn to feel the pain.
It's your turn to weep.
Don't explain

Hush now, don't explain,
There is nothing within me now to gain.
I'm gonna skip out ??
Don't explain.
Don't explain.

Woman Left Lonely lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Ella Brown)

A woman left lonely
will soon grow tired of waiting
she'll do crazy things
on lonely occasions

a simple conversation
with a new man now and again
makes a touchy situation
when a good thing's comin' to an end

and when she gets lonely
she's thinkin' 'bout her man
she knows he's takin' her for granted
honey, she doesn't understand

well, the fevers of the night,
they burn an unloved woman
yeah, those red-hot flames
try to push old love aside

a woman left lonely
is just a victim of her man, yes she is
when he can't give up his whole world, no
she's got to do the best that she can

a woman left lonely
that lonely girl
oh..

Blue lyrics - Cat Power

Blue
Songs are like tattoos
You know I’ve been to sea before
Crown and anchor me
Or let me sail away

Hey blue
Here is a song for you
Ink on a pin
Underneath the skin
An empty space to fill in

You’ve got to keep thinking
There’re so many sinking
You got to keep thinking
We can make it through these waves

Acid, booze and ass
Needles, guns and grass
Lots of laughs
Lots of laughs

Everybody’s saying that hell’s the hippest way to go out
I don’t think so
But I’m gonna take a look around it though
Blue, I love, I love you
I love you

Blue, here is a shell for you
Inside you’ll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me
Blue
From me

I Feel lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Hot Boys)

I feel like I'mma lose my life for this
I feel like I'mma have to fight for this
I feel motherfuckers they goin' say I'm wrong
I feel you're goin' get buck when you hear my song
I feel you don't even know how I feel
I feel if you hate me you got to get real
I feel like go to Texas and for me some brick
I feel the policeman making me sick
I feel like I could be the president
I feel like burning up their bodies to leave no evidence
I feel you don't even know how I feel
Respect my mind I'm just telling you how I feel

Do you feel like you could lose your life for this
Do you feel like you could fight for this
Do you feel like go to Texas and for me some brick
Do you feel the policeman I'm making you sick
Do you feel like you could be the president
feel like burning up their bodies to leave no evidence
Do you feel like they don't even know how we feel
I feel that they hate us, we got to get real
Got to get real, real

Naked If I Want To lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Moby Grape)

Would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an amplifier, oh, on time?
My sweet time

Well I ain't got no money
I will pay this time
And I ain't got no money
But I will pay you before I die

And would you let me walk down your streets
Naked if we all wanted to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an aeroplane way up high in the old blue sky?
Well I got no mercy
I will pay this time
And I got no mercy
I will pay you before I die

Breathless lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds)

It's up in the morning and on the downs
Little white clouds like gambolling lambs
And I am breathless over you

And the red-breasted robin beats his wings
His throat it trembles when he sings
For he is helpless before you

The happy hooded bluebells bow
And bend their heads all a-down
Heavied by the early morning dew

At the whispering stream, at the bubbling brook
The fishes leap up to take a look
For they are breathless over you

Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew

Still your mind
Still your soul
For still, the fare of love is true
And I am breathless without you

The wind circles among the trees
And it bangs about the new-made leaves
For it is breathless without you

The fox chases the rabbit round
The rabbit hides beneath the ground
For he is defenceless without you

The sky of daytime dies away
And all the earthly things they stop to play
For we are all breathless without you

I listen to my juddering bones
The blood in my veins and the wind in my lungs
And I am breathless without you

Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew

Still your soul
Still your mind
Still, the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you

Angelitos Negros lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Pedro Infante)

Pintor nacido en mi tierra
con el pincel extranjero
pintor que sigues el rumbo
de tantos pintores viejos

Aunque la Virgen sea blanca
píntame angelitos negros
que también se van al cielo
todos los negritos buenos

Pintor, si pintas con amor
Por que desprecias su color
si sabes que en el cielo
también los quiere Dios

Pintor de santos de alcoba
si tienes alma en el cuerpo
porque al pintar en tus cuadros
te olvidaste de los negros

Siempre que pintas iglesias
pintas angelitos bellos
pero nunca te acordaste
de pintar un ángel negro

Pintor de santos de alcoba
si tienes alma en el cuerpo
por que al pintar en tus cuadros
te olvidaste de los negros

Siempre que pintas iglesias
pintas angelitos bellos
pero nunca te acordaste
de pintar un ángel negro

She's Got You lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Patsy Cline)

I've got your picture that you gave to me
And its signed with love just like it used to be
The only thing different
The only thing new
I've got your picture, she's got you

I've got the records that we used to share
And they still sound the same as when you were here
The only thing different
The only thing new
I've got the records, she's got you

I've got your memory or has it got me
I really don't know
But i know it won't let me be

I've got your class ring that proved you cared
And it still looks the same as when you gave it dear
The only thing different
The only thing new
I've got these little things, she's got you

I've got your memory, or has it got me
I really don't know but I know it won't let me be
I've got your class ring that proved you cared
And it still looks the same as when you gave it dear

The only thing different
The only thing new
I've got these little things, she's got you

album: "You Are Free" (2003)

I Don't Blame You lyrics - cat power

Last time I saw you, you were on stage
Your hair was wild, your eyes were bright
And you were in a rage
You were swinging your guitar around
Cuz they wanted to hear that sound
But you didn't want to play
And I don't blame you

I don't blame you

Been around the world, in many situations
Been inside many heads in different positions
But you never wanted them that way
What a cruel price you thought that you had to pay
Them back for all that shit on stage
But it never made sense to them anyway
Could you imagine when they turned their backs
They were only scratching their heads
Cuz you simply deserve the best
And I don't blame you

I don't blame you

They said you were the best
But then they were only kids
Then you would recall the deadly houses you grew up in
Just because they knew your name
Doesn't mean they know from where you came
What a sad trick you thought that you had to play
But I don't blame you

They never owned it
And you never owed it to them anyway

I don't blame you

Free lyrics - Cat Power

Everbody come together
Free
Everybody get together
Free

It's ok If ya can't stand to let her dance
It's ok it's your right
Come on and take a chance
To romance when ya dance

Free

Don't be in love with the autograph
Just be in love when ya scream that song (on and on)

Free

Everybody come together
Free
Everybody get together
Free

You can't feed her from the palm
That you're holding on your arm

Cool hands from the get go
Can ya feast on the real one

Don't be in love with the autograph
Just be in love when ya love that song (on and on)

Free

It's ok if ya can't stand to let him dance
It's ok it's your right come on and take a chance
To romance when ya dance

Free

Everybody come together
Free

Don't fall in love with the autograph
Just fall in love when ya sing your song (on and on)

Take a chance
To romance when ya dance

Free!
Free!
Free!
Free!
Free!
Free

Good Woman lyrics - Cat Power

I want to be a good woman
And I want for you to be a good man.
This is why I will be leaving
And this is why I can't see you no more.
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love this love forever.

I don't want be a bad woman
And I can't stand to see you be a bad man.
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love this love forever.

And this is why I am leaving
And this is why I can't see you no more.
This is why I am lying when I say
That I don't love you no more.

Cause I want (to) be a good woman
And I want for you to be a good man.

Speak For Me lyrics - cat power

Pick us up we're all by ourselves
The great big howling is about to begin
A thousand miles from where it all begins

Old world, the whole world is

Going on and on (forfeit the shape to fit)
The backhand to a touch is moving on again
Going on and on

What's next?
I'm out of time
Losing my touch I can't feel
Speak for me
Do you see the same signs?
Do you know how to read between the lines?
All in all, it's all or none, all for one
What you want?

Pick us out of a lineup
Stranded and strange just as innocent as kids
The found are leaving and they're trying to forget
The old world, the whole world is

Going on and on (forfeit the shape to fit)
A backhand to the touch is moving on again
Going on and on

What's next?
I'm out of time
Losing my touch I can't feel
Speak for me
Do you see the same signs?
Do you know how to read between the lines?
All in all, it's all or none, all for one
What you want?

Going on and on

Speak For Me lyrics - Cat Power

Werewolf lyrics - Cat Power

Oh the werewolf, the werewolf
Comes stepping along
He don't even break the branches where he's gone
Once I saw him in the moonlight, when the bats were flying
I saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying

How nobody knows, nobody knows, body knows
How I loved the man, as I teared off his clothes.
How nobody knows, nobody knows my pain
When I see that it's risen; that full moon again

For the werewolf, the werewolf has seen apathy
For the werewolf, somebody like you and me.
And only he goes to me, man this little flute I play.
All through the night, until the light of day, and we are doomed to play.

For the werewolf, the werewolf, has seen apathy
For the werewolf, somebody like you and me.

Fool lyrics - cat power

Apartment in New York, London and Paris
Where will we rest, we're all living on top of it
It's all that we have the USA our daily bread
And no one is willing to share it

Why can't we see our fortunancy
Living as legends have lived
Bane and dismannered
We coax all the time
Knowing that nothing is left when we die

Come along Fool,
A direct hit to the sense you're disconnected
It's not that it's bad, it's not that it's death
It's just that it's on the tip of your tongue and you're so silent

Wanting to live and laugh all the time
Sitting alone with you tea and your crime
Children with kids and people with parents
Any which way there's no past and no present
When the day comes and all of them bums
Will reveal enchanting persons

Come along Fool,
A direct hit to the sense you're disconnected
It's not that it's bad, it's not that it's death
It's just that it's on the tip of your tongue and you're so silent

When it's a rut and baby's no luck
Half of it's misunderstanding love
The war we have won we're winning again
Within ourselves and within our friends

Come along Fool,
A direct hit to the sense you're disconnected
It's not that it's bad, it's not that it's death
It's just that it's on the tip of your tongue and you're so silent

He War lyrics - Cat Power

I never meant to be the needle that broke your back
You were here, you were here, and you were here
Don't look back

I never meant to be the needle that broke your back
You were here, you were here, and you were here
Don't look back

He war he war
He will kill for you
He war he war
He will kill for you
From who you can
You know you can

Hey hey heeeyyy [x4]

I'm not that hot new chick
And if you won't let me run with it
We're on to your same old trick
Get up and run away with it

I'm not that hot new chick
And if you won't let me run with it
We're on to your same old trick
Get up and run away with it

Hey hey hey
He war he war
He will kill for you
Hey hey hey
He war he war
He will kill for you
Hey hey hey
From who you can
Hey hey hey
You know you can

Hey hey hey
He war he war
He will kill for you
Hey hey hey
He war he war
He will kill for you
Hey hey hey
From who you can
Hey hey hey
You know you can

Shaking Paper lyrics - Cat Power

Hold the gun
Way deep down
Look out young son
Look out young son

Good things coming
Cause the good thing's coming

Shotguns with no guns
Shot army with no army at all

I don't know what is worse
And I can't tell what is the best
People emphasize the weight of the world
Demons despise the sound of shaking paper
Guess what I found out
You
Did
Too

Babydoll lyrics - Cat Power

Baby
Black, black, black is all you see
Don't you want to be free?
Baby
Red, red fire is what you breathe
Don't you want to be clean?
Honey, the shape you're in
Is worth every dime you spent
Baby Doll
Turn out the lights
Set yourself on fire
Say goodnight
Pin your hair up
A real cool time
Baby
Black, black, black is all you see
Don't you want to be free?

Maybe Not lyrics - Cat Power

There's a dream that I see, I pray it can be
Look cross the land, shake this land
A wish or a command
Dream that I see, don't kill it, it's free
You're just a man, you get what you can

We all do what we can
So we can do just one more thing
We can all be free
Maybe not in words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

Listen to me, don't walk that street
There's always an end to it
Come and be free, you know who I am
We're just living people

We won't have a thing
So we got nothing to lose
We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

You've got to choose a wish or command
At the turn of the tide, is withering thee
Remember one thing, the dream you can see
Pray to be, shake this land

We all do what we can
So we can do just one more thing
We won't have a thing
So we've got nothing to lose
We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

But with your mind

Names lyrics - Cat Power

His name was Perry
He had a learning difficulty
His father was a very mean man
His father burned his skin
His father sent him to his death
He was ten years old
He was ten years old
He was ten years old

Her name was Naomi
Beautiful round face, so ashamed
Told me how to please a man
After school in the back of a bus
She was doin' it every day
She was eleven years old
She was eleven years old
She was eleven years old

Her name was Sheryl
Black hair, like an electric space
She would pretty paint my face
She was a very good friend
Her father would come to her in the night
She was twelve years old
She was twelve years old
She was twelve years old

His name was Donovan
He was a very good friend
The cards were stacked against him
He was selling cocaine
The last time I saw him
He was thirteen years old
He was thirteen years old
He was thirteen years old

His name was Charles
He said he was in love with me
We were both fourteen
Then I had to move away
Then he began to smoke crack
Then he had to sell ass
I don't know where he is
I don't know where they are

Half Of You lyrics - Cat Power

When you give half of you
I want all of you
When you give half of you
I want all of you

When you go back window
You see shadows
When you're shopping for me
'Cause when you give half of you
I want all of you

Sadness is a gentle mind
But a good women has her hands to use
Empty package of chips will tell you
What can be sold market and what can belongs to you
When you give
When you give half of you
I want all of you

Keep On Runnin' (Crawlin' Black Spider) lyrics - Cat Power

When will you do what you say you'll do?
How could you really do it?
Will you keep on running?
Baby settle down
Will you keep on running?
You'll lose your heart
Will you keep on running?
Baby settle down
Will you keep on running?
Run on, run on
You'll rule your day

Crawlin' black spider baby
Crawlin' black spider

Begin to crawl on baby with the cracks were very high
Just keep on crawlin' till the day I die

Crawlin' black spider

When will you do what you say you'll do?
How could you really do it?
Will you keep on running?
Baby settle down
Will you keep on running?
You'll lose your heart
Will you keep on running?
Baby settle down
Will you keep on running?
Run on, run on and you'll rule your day

Crawlin' black spider

Evolution lyrics - Cat Power

Better call the ships, they been caught sailing
Better call the captain, he's been caught stealing
Better call the porter man, he's been caught leaving
Better call all the guys on the deck; they've been caught with no feeling
Better call the fisherman, cause they're coming on land
Better call the head nurse, wrap us up, to throw us in the dark
Better call with some resistance, better way to feel no shame
Better call with some persistence, that way you feel nothing at all
Better call on evolution, better way to make a revolution
Better make your mind up quick
Better make your mind up quick

The Party lyrics - cat power

Good friends come out now
The party is about to begin
We can wrestle down to the floor
Throw empty bottles out the door

They'll smash and we will laugh
What a guess we have had
The light from the window
Look as of dancing shadows

Music from the back room
Is an old song we all know
Through shining eyes and smiling faces
We all sing along

(It's) been so long since I've seen you
My good friends
This memory daydream
Is good enough for me

If you were here today
We'd be getting into frisky business
Maybe some of the daydream memory

album: "The Covers Record" (2000)

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction lyrics - cat power

(originally by The Rolling Stones)

I'm driving in my car
And a man come on the radio
He's tellin' me more and more
'Bout some useless information
Tryin' to mess my 'magination

When I'm watchin' my TV
And a man come on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
But he can't be a man
'Cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me

When I'm riding around the globe
And I'm doin' this and I'm signin' that
And I'm tryin' to make some boy
Baby, baby, baby, come back
Can't y'see
I'm on a losing streak

When I'm riding around the globe
And I'm doin' this and I'm signin' that
And I'm tryin'
And I'm tryin'

Kingsport Town lyrics - cat power

(originally by Bob Dylan)

The winter wind
Is blowing so strong
My hands have got
No gloves

Wish to my sole
That I could have
The boy I'm dreaming of

Don't you remember me, babe
I remember you quite well
Caused me to leave
All of New York town
With a high sheriff on my tail

A high sheriff on my tail, boys,
High sheriff on my trail.

All because I've fallen for
A curly headed dark-eyed boy

Who's gonna stroke
Your coal black hair
And your sandy colored skin
Who's gonna walk you side by side
And tell you everything is alright

Who's gonna look
You straight in the eye
And hold your bad luck hand

Who's gonna walk you
Who's gonna talk to you
And who's gonna be your woman

The winter wind
Is blowing so strong
My hands have got
No gloves

Don't you remember me, babe
I remember you quite well

Troubled Waters lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Duke Ellington)

I must be
One of the devil's daughters
They look at me with scorn
I'll never hear their horn

Sometimes
It's like chains
Sometimes I hang my head
In shame
When people see me
They scandalize my name

I'm going down
To the devil's water
I'm gonna drown
In that troubled water
It's coming 'round my soul
It's way beyond control
I must be one
I must be one

I must be
One of the devil's daughters
They look at me with scorn
I'll never hear their horn

Sometimes
It's like chains
Sometimes I hang my head
In shame
When people see me
They scandalize my name

I'm going down
To the devil's water
I'm gonna drown
In that troubled water
It's coming 'round my soul
It's way beyond control
I must be one
I must be one
I must be

Naked If I Want To lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Moby Grape)

Would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an amplifier, oh, on time?
My sweet time

Well I ain't got no money
I will pay this time
And I ain't got no money
But I will pay you before I die

And would you let me walk down your streets
Naked if we all wanted to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an aeroplane way up high in the old blue sky?
Well I got no mercy
I will pay this time
And I got no mercy
I will pay you before I die

Sweedeedee lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Michael Hurley)

You wash them clothes
Swee dee dee
And hang em on the line
I can see by the way
You wash them clothes
Your cookin' must be fine
I'm with you in the morning
'Til the break of day
And I know everybody
Has a little hard luck
Sometimes
And I know lately
I've been havin' mine
We used to live
In a fleabag apartment
You know the kind
And he come home and he'd say to me
We gotta leave, leave, leave the city
You wash them clothes
Swee dee dee
And hang 'em on the line
I can see by the way you wash them clothes
Your cookin' must be fine
I'm with you in the morning
Unill the break of day
I know everybody
Has a little hard luck
Sometimes
I know lately
I've been havin' mine.

In This Hole lyrics - Cat Power

In this hole that we have fixed
We get further and further and further
From the world
We must do

I saw you asleep beside a wall
Your skull inside a ball
Your eyes blackened by
The sound and the thought of God
Where should I hang my head?
Where would you like for me to hang my head?

One absence of truth
And one horrible thing I saw
What you truly wanted to become
And who you thought I was
The fall, the fall
Afraid to love
What is deeper than the grave
Goes all the way down those tracks
Everybody bow your head for the greatest inspiration
Complete contradiction
Away

In this hole that we have fixed
We get further and further
From the world
We must do
I know this, I know this
You know this, you know this

In this hole that we have fixed
We get further and further and further
From the world
We must do

I saw you outside that wall
Your skull outside that wall
Your eyes perceived by the sound
And the light of God

I Found A Reason lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by The Velvet Underground)

Oh I do believe
In all the things you see
What comes is better
Than what came before

And you better come come
come come to me
Better come come come come come to me
Better run run run run run to me
Better come

Oh I do believe
In all the things you see
What comes is better
Than what came before

And you better
run run run run to me
Better run run run run run to me
Better come come come come come to me
Better run

Wild Is The Wind lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Johnny Mathis)

Love me, love me
Say you do
Let me fly away with you

We are creatures of the wind
Wild is the wind

Give me more than one caress
Satisfy this hungriness

We are creatures of the wind
Wild is the wind

You touch me
I hear the sound of mandolins, baby
You kiss me...
With your kiss my life begins

Like a leaf clings to a tree
Baby, please cling to me

We are creatures of the wind
Wild is the wind

You touch me
I hear the sound of mandolins
And you kiss me
With your kiss my life begins..

Love me, love me
Say you do
Let me fly away with you

Red Apples lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Smog)

I went down to the river
To meet the widow
She gave me an apple
And it was red

I slept in her black arms
For a century
She wanted nothing in return
I gave her nothing in return

The ghost of her husband
Beautiful as a horse
Pulled up an apple cart
Full of millions of red apples for us
Full of millions of red apples for us

I went down to the river
To meet the widow
She gave me an apple
And it was red

I slept in her black arms
For a century
She wanted nothing in return
I gave her nothing in return

I went down to the river
To meet the widow

Paths Of Victory lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Bob Dylan)

The trail is dark and dusty
The road is kinda rough
But the road up yonder
With the cinders on the side.

Trails of troubles
And your road of battle,
They lead paths of victory
We shall walk

I walked out to the valley
Turned my head up high.
Seen that silver linin'
That was hangin' in the sky

Trails of troubles
And your road of battles,
In the paths of victory
We shall walk

The mountain was a-movin'
The hummin' of its wheels,
Told me of the new day
That was coming across the fields

Trails of troubles
And roads of battles,
They lead paths of victory
We shall walk

The gravel road is bumpy,
It's a hard old road to ride,
But the good road is waitin'
And the boys it ain't far off.

Trails of troubles
And your roads of battle,
They lead paths of victory
We shall walk

Salty Dog lyrics - Cat Power

Salty dog, salty dog
I don't wanna be your Annie doll
Honey let me be your salty dog
Candyman

Two old maids
Sittin' in the sand
One were a she
The other were a man
Salty dog
Candyman

Worst day I ever had in my life
My best friend caught him kissin' his wife
Salty dog
Candyman

Salty dog, salty dog
I don't wanna be your Annie doll
Honey let me be your salty dog
Candyman

Sea Of Love lyrics - Cat Power

(originally by Phil Phillips)

Come with me my love
To the sea
The sea of love
I want to tell you
How much I love you

Do you remember
When we met?
That's the day I knew you were my pet
I want to tell you
How much I love you

Come with me my love
To the sea
The sea of love
I want to tell you
How much I love you

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