Nine Cats
Porcupine Tree
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He 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 five clocks down on my bed The chimes danced out on golden threads And turned to footprints on my wall Sequined tears began to fall
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Written by: STEVEN JOHN WILSON, ALAN DUFFY
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