The Mocking Stars - LAUSSE THE CAT.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : LAUSSE THE CAT
[00:01.000] 作曲 : LAUSSE THE CAT
[00:02.436] The sun looked away from the rude cat with a sulk
[00:03.394] So thoroughly vexed and hurt by his meowing and whispers
[00:06.261] That a huge, hot and salty tear flushed with a lug
[00:09.167] From his eyes to the oceans below and fell with a crash
[00:11.623]
[00:12.485] He withdrew his golden arms from the houses and streets
[00:15.338] And the parks, trees and faces, and the trash all beneath
[00:18.199] And he flung them up towards the skies and ceilings above
[00:21.532] Where with golden claws for hands, he ripped the shadows from sleep
[00:24.326]
[00:25.017] And he pulled them down like curtains, the blue seas turned blood red
[00:28.124]
[00:28.556] And above them hung heavy the dour sun
[00:30.755] Dragging night's cloak over his body, such an infant does
[00:33.888] When sent to bed deprived of supper by a fuming mum
[00:37.156]
[00:37.727] Waves of darkness came gushing from the abyss
[00:39.891] Running like death's ghost to swallow in its path all the light
[00:43.152] And with one last toss from the Sun and his black blanket
[00:46.404] He eclipsed his final shine, and then the darkness arrived
[00:49.259]
[00:50.576] At first, there was silence but then echoed a roar
[00:52.624] From all those who lived like cattle to the rhythm of day
[00:55.610] Civilisation ran amok, and the workers fell to nap
[00:58.514] Whilst shops were robbed and plundered by the humans underpaid
[01:01.635]
[01:02.347] And as the banks slept, and the law dreamed of order
[01:05.096] And power slipped out of sweaty-palmed politicians
[01:08.027] The law of the jungle took place in this disorder
[01:10.919] And the suits stripped and cowered in their marble island kitchens
[01:14.283]
[01:14.967] In clubs, songs were played back to back for the youth
[01:17.648] Who regrouped there in masses, all trembling with angst
[01:20.267] They had wished a revolution, but as soon as it had come
[01:23.211] Chased oblivion with rum pills and industrial tracks
[01:26.297]
[01:27.024] Then all came to a halt as the power ran dry
[01:29.366] And the moon shone no more for the sun didn’t spy
[01:32.399] The icy earth swung black and blind with lights absence
[01:36.276] And fear chilled all souls as they prayed to the skies
[01:38.730]
[01:39.270] Palaces, houses, apartments, flats, flowers
[01:42.217] Forests, green gardens, brown gates and front lawns
[01:45.025] Were thrown in huge fires set ablaze with small matches
[01:48.396] To etch the silhouettes of scared faces once more
[01:51.030]
[01:51.675] And since all the food had been looted with greed
[01:54.334] In the chaos that had stemmed from forgetting what dawn was
[01:56.994] Burnt corpses fed rats, and the rats fed the humans
[01:59.940] Till rats were no more, and the humans ate corpses
[02:02.749]
[02:04.149] The shit cat viewed all this from the tiles of his rooftop
[02:06.891] His small house untouched due to rivers of tears
[02:09.617] That flowed out of his eyes and made waterfall walls
[02:12.599] As he wept for the glow of his sweet moon disappeared
[02:15.253]
[02:15.753] And through his drenched eyes, he saw then far in the distance
[02:18.987] A shadow spin round in a furious fit
[02:21.859] For all the Mad Hatters had gathered round Saino’s
[02:25.026] To dance, run and sing as they pranced round the pit
[02:28.253]
[02:28.706] Their shattered teeth clashing with bottles of glass
[02:31.389] And eyes red as rubies from madness and fumes
[02:34.180] In turn, one by one, howled and leapt in the fire
[02:37.230] To extinguish their souls and be one with the moon
[02:40.579]
[02:41.207] And as their flesh left them, their souls grabbed the smoke
[02:44.025] Which whisked the ghosts up to the stars in the skies
[02:46.681] Where they landed on Mars, for it’s told as a rumour
[02:49.872] The moon there still sings and shines nice on the eyes
[02:52.736]
[02:54.097] Alone, the cat wept;
[02:54.843] “A plague upon you wretched sun!
[02:56.417] You bring the burning pain of man to stain the doorstep that I sweep”
[02:59.048] The stars cackled at the sight, the fires crackled in the night
[03:02.075] And shone ablaze the scene that Lausse had sought to hide within his dreams
[03:05.233]
[03:05.845] And his tears dripped and splashed a mossy puddle to a lake
[03:08.477] Which spilled and morphed into the Lethe river running free
[03:11.530] And paved before his eyes a road towards the sullen skies
[03:14.500] Where he could hear the mocking stars in fits as humans burned beneath
[03:17.472]
[03:18.482] He heard the laughs and calmly told the sun to leave said;
[03:21.221] “**** a job, go sing to those who worship P’s and being tanned”
[03:24.618] And he skirted down his roof and used a tile to surf the stream
[03:27.154] He tied a Rizla as a flag and bade a bye the burning damned
[03:30.094]
[03:30.634] The flesh of churning humans made their limbs appear to wave
[03:33.276] The shrieks would seem to cheer him luck as he departed from the land
[03:36.509] He yelled ahoy and grabbed the helm and set the sail towards the night
[03:39.694] And sang himself a song the sailors sing in ports of Amsterdam
[03:42.375]
[03:43.218] “Tenant un air bleu dans le crâne
[03:44.160] Je prends la peine de peindre mes pensées
[03:45.631] Je pends mes peines du rose des lèvres
[03:47.114] Pour l’garder en dehors de l'âme
[03:48.473]
[03:48.711] Je lance mes jambes devant
[03:50.268] En gambadant tout lentement dans l’noir
[03:51.650] En pensant sans élan au sens
[03:52.970] Je laisse au lendemain le drame
[03:54.706]
[03:55.001] La danse du diable et celle des anges
[03:56.527] J'm’allume un lampadaire le soir
[03:57.726] Je serre les dents au flair des vents
[03:59.300] Qui percent, berçant l’odeur des flammes
[04:00.859]
[04:01.050] Mon âme j’la lance dans les courants
[04:02.432] De l’eau d’la mer
[04:03.337] J’me lave les mains mes peines me pèsent
[04:04.981] Et j’en veux pas quand j’m’envole loin dans l’au-delà”
[04:07.608]
[04:07.935] And he sailed towards the stars and once beneath them yelled above
[04:10.310] “I seek to dance amidst the moon to blind my eyes of all things sad
[04:13.417] Curl my body in a ball upon the crevice of her arch
[04:16.257] For she can cradle me to sleep to hush the hummings of the Mad!”
[04:19.098]
[04:19.577] The stars were struck and startled harshly by the mortal cat's demands
[04:22.023] But soon they rippled out and echoed loud a belly laugh anew
[04:24.600] For see, the stars are just the dead who sparkle hard to seem alive
[04:28.299] And there before them was a cat who’d blindly die to bed the moon
[04:31.166]
[04:31.259] They giggled;
[04:32.057]
[04:32.300] “You will, you will, you will, you will
[04:33.218] Never, never, never, never
[04:34.530] Find a, find a, find a, find a
[04:35.942] Lover, lover, lover, lover
[04:37.587] Haha, haha, haha, haha
[04:40.631] Haha, haha, haha, haha
[04:43.560]
[04:44.284] She will, she will, she will, she will
[04:45.119] Never, never, never, never
[04:46.548] Love you, love you, love you, love you
[04:48.076] As long, as long, as you're, as you're
[04:49.542] Living, living, living, living
[04:52.665] Living, living, living, living”
[04:55.238]
[04:55.591] Holler, hello, hallo
[04:56.832] May you hear my hollow heckle
[04:58.212] Echo high and halt the hollow howl
[04:59.769]
[05:00.062] You cackle in my ears
[05:01.214] I hope to sleep and drag the blinds
[05:02.643] I've peeped my people's pantomime
[05:04.115] Enough to know to leave the show
[05:05.616] Before the closing hour arrives
[05:07.135] I wonder will I, will I, will, will I
[05:08.958] Ever find a little silver
[05:10.484] Sliver of a linen line
[05:11.641] To sew myself a pillow
[05:13.034] Fit to kip and kick the bucket
[05:14.630] Make like Hummus, dip or cut like scissors
[05:16.152] Slip like in your missus, duck like pecking
[05:18.434] Skip like class
[05:19.046] And leave this little life behind
[05:20.313]
[05:20.649] (The stars replied…)
[05:21.386]
[05:21.678] “No chance, little cat
[05:22.967] You ain't died yet
[05:24.072] Our moon shines
[05:25.163] For the fellas in the fire pit!”
[05:26.334]
[05:26.817] (Kitten cracked a Stella and replied)
[05:28.786]
[05:29.149] I would, I could, I should've
[05:30.091] Cooked and popped and snapped
[05:31.263] And crackled quick before your cackles
[05:32.589] Made me gag for some bromide
[05:34.111] I pander pious shouts to scout out your highness
[05:36.690] With loins burning more
[05:38.143] Than your burnt sparks provide us
[05:39.493]
[05:40.051] (The Stars cursed the cat
[05:41.022] Chiming quiet in a choir
[05:42.322] They cackled at him…)
[05:43.706]
[05:43.991] “Listen, we know you ain't got
[05:44.996] The innards or the belly for a dive
[05:46.507] Tell us why you told
[05:48.060] The timid sun to hurry off a cliff”
[05:49.684]
[05:50.129] This world is clapped
[05:50.932] I didn't wanna see our errors in a light
[05:52.229] And call me tepid, but
[05:54.029] I've hardly seen an effort make a diff
[05:55.648]
[05:55.881] “Call the kettle black
[05:56.993] But you just poured the oil on the fire”
[05:58.645]
[05:59.052] At least the better generation need
[06:00.609] No Clipper for their spliff
[06:01.874] Let them safely solve the world with sweaty thumbs
[06:04.107] In terms of ****s, I've given none and now
[06:05.814] I'm dying for—I'm dying for a kip
[06:07.580]
[06:07.940] “You will, you will, you will, you will
[06:09.118] Never, never, never, never
[06:10.584] Find a, find a, find a, find a
[06:12.006] Lover, lover, lover, lover
[06:13.593] Haha, haha, haha, haha
[06:16.767] Haha, haha, haha, haha
[06:19.451]
[06:19.724] She will, she will, she will, she will
[06:21.098] Never, never, never, never
[06:22.546] Love you, love you, love you, love you
[06:24.089] As long, as long, as you're, as you're
[06:25.785] Living, living, living, living
[06:28.693] Living, living, living, living”
[06:31.438]
[06:54.200] I ask the stars (Hello, Cat)
[06:55.515] Let me sleep (Let me sleep)
[06:58.504] Being stuck between two worlds is all I seek
[07:02.539] (Is all I seek)
[07:03.631]
[07:04.189] When I feel (When I feel)
[07:06.182] The day escape me (The day escape)
[07:08.994] Then I spend the night
[07:10.873] To tame the time that breaks me
[07:14.110] (Time that breaks me)
[07:14.503] (Tik tok, tik tok, tik tok)
[07:14.897]
[07:15.123] When I wake (When I wake)
[07:16.568] In space I lull (In space I lull)
[07:19.089] To waste the time I'm gifted
[07:21.816] Just to feel control (To feel control)
[07:24.436] Like when you choose a person
[07:26.934] Knowing they're made of clay
[07:29.149] (They're made of clay)
[07:30.032]
[07:30.559] So when love crumbles once again
[07:31.834] You're not to blame (it's not your fault)
[07:34.353]
[07:35.050] I always feel
[07:36.326] Like life's a loop
[07:39.871] Till I find myself once more
[07:42.740] Dressed in a suit
[07:45.234] So I wear a suit all year
[07:48.021] To keep death distant
[07:50.257] But I know a person's missing
[07:53.162] When it's Christmas
[07:54.642]
[07:55.947] When I fear (When I fear)
[07:58.278] I'll cease to live (I'll cease to live)
[08:00.639] Before my pen (Before my pen)
[08:03.098] Writes all I’d give (Writes all I’d give)
[08:06.099]
[08:06.706] When my eyes (When my eyes)
[08:08.730] Meet starry nights (Meet starry nights)
[08:11.186] The thought of never being again
[08:14.096] Gives me a fright! (Gives me a fright!)
[08:16.586]
[08:16.975] When I watch (When I watch)
[08:19.214] A face adored (A face adored)
[08:21.793] Then I weep to think
[08:23.906] I'll see said face no more (Said face no more)
[08:27.122] When these fears (When these fears)
[08:29.548] Drive me to the brink (To the brink)
[08:32.097] Then love and fame (Fame)
[08:34.672] Till nothingness do sink!
[08:36.477] (Sink, sink, sink, sink)
[08:37.563]
[08:44.885] Lausse looked down at his feet, all bashful
[08:47.068] And gulped down his howling defeat
[08:49.125] His blue tiled barge merged to one with the seas
[08:51.642] And the oceans' garm showed him all he had dreamed of
[08:53.998] A handful of stars now blurry
[08:56.288] The waves turned their sharp beams furry and meek
[08:59.199] They played round his finger, he swirled out a tango
[09:01.837] And twirled ‘em away with a swipe of a paw
[09:04.181]
[09:04.868] The lone moon her pale head; a bowl full of milk
[09:06.793] And a snout so close he could bend down and drink her
[09:09.377] Dinner alfresco, alight with some tinsel
[09:12.012] He knelt down and smiled at the sight of this picture
[09:14.600]
[09:15.372] Then he fell headfirst in the picnic…
[09:19.885]
[09:20.502] (Oh no, come back!)
[09:23.894] (Oh no…)
[09:24.981] (Don't go, little cat)
[09:26.522]
[09:27.685] “As one of our poets is fond of saying, if I may quote…”
[09:32.298] (Oh yes, yes, please do)
[09:36.750]
[09:37.167] “Where are you going stream
[09:38.458] Far, far away
[09:40.504] Take me with you stream
[09:43.231] Take me on your dark journey
[09:45.813] Lord Frith
[09:48.705] Take me far away to the hearts of light
[09:52.774] The silence
[09:56.071] I give you my breath
[09:58.430] My life
[10:01.432] The silence…”