Biography:
The Cat Empire is a six-piece alternative band from Melbourne, Australia. Their sound has been described as a fusion of jazz, funk, and rock with heavy Latin / Salsa influences (not to mention reggae, ska and dub). Currently, the Cat Empire consists of Ollie McGill (keyboard and backing vocals), Ryan Monro (bass and backing vocals), Felix Riebl (percussion and vocals), Harry James Angus (trumpet and vocals), Will Hull-Brown (drums), and Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwhala (decks, percussion).
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Other songs:
- Chariot
- Chariots
- Hello Hello
- No Longer There
- Nothing
- Sly
- Still Young
- The Lost Song
- Two Shoes
- All Hell
- All Night Loud
- Anybody
- Anymore
- Bataclan
- Brighter Than Gold
- Bulls
- Call Me Home
- Creature
- Daggers Drawn
- Days Like These
- Eagle
- Echoes
- Feelings Gone
- Go
- How To Explain
- In My Pocket
- Kila
- Like A Drum
- Lullaby
- Miserere
- Motion
- No Mountain
- On My Way
- Only Light
- Open Up Your Face
- Oscar Wilde
- Panama
- Prophets In The Sky
- Protons Neutrons Electrons
- Ready Now
- Reasonably Fine
- Rhyme And Reason
- Saturday Night
- Sleep Wont Sleep
- So Many Nights
- Song For Elias
- Steal The Light
- Sunny Moon
- The Crowd
- The Night That Never End
- The Rhythm
- The Wine Song
- Til The Ocean Takes Us All
- Till The Ocean Takes Us All
- Voodoo Cowboy
- Whos That
- Wine Song
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VERSE:
G Bm Em `
I know you'd like to hear a song as everything's all
Bm ` C `
Right the temp'rature is warm the fire horses
D `
Sleep so gently comes the
VERSE:
G Bm Em `
Night now close your eyes a-stare the ground they're on is
Bm ` C `
Bare but once it was as deep and wild as giant's
D `
Dreams it's no longer
VERSE-LONG:
G Bm Em `
There and all of our de-sires could mirror skies with
Bm ` C `
Flames and smoke out heaven's halls and who was that you
D ` G Bm
Called they're no longer there
REFRAIN:
C ` Em G
Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a
C ` Em `
gain here it goes a-gain
Am ` D `
BRIDGE:
Em G C G
Now what would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your
Em G C G
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept a-what would you
Em G C G
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you
D ` C ` D `
Wrecked and what would you leave behind when you're no longer
VERSE: [solo]
G Bm Em `
There
Bm ` C ` D `
VERSE:
G Bm Em `
And would you sail to distant shores and hide within the
Bm ` C `
Haze and softly close your door pre-tend the world was
D `
Saved and wait for heaven's
VERSE-LONG:
G Bm Em `
Call or would you turn and face the seas and calm beside you
Bm ` C `
Care there's chance but if you dare and swift as honest
D ` G Bm
Deeds before it's no longer there
REFRAIN:
C ` Em G
Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a
C ` Em `
gain here it goes a-gain
Am ` D `
BRIDGE-LONG:
Em G C G
What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your
Em G C G
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept what would you
Em G C G
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you
D ` C ` D ` G `
Wrecked what would you leave behind when you're no longer there
CODA:
C ` Em `
To de-ny or to des-pair they're really just the
D ` D `
Same but ev'rything be-tween it means we have to
C ` Em `
Change 'cos where the one for-gets the world begins to
D ` D `
Fade and all the shapes and shades that made the colour
C ` D `
Scene well they suddenly turn grey then they're no longer
G ` ` N.C.
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