The Mocking Stars

Lyrics for The Mocking Stars

The sun looked away from the rude cat with a sulk So thoroughly vexed and hurt by his meowing and whispers That a huge hot and salty tear flushed with a lug From his eyes to the oceans below and fell with a crash He withdrew his golden arms from the houses and streets And the parks trees and faces, and the trash all beneath And he flung them up towards the skies and ceilings above Were with golden claws for hands he ripped the shadows from sleep And he pulled them down like curtains, the blue seas turned blood red And above them hung heavy the dour sun Dragging nights cloak over his body such an infant does When sent to bed deprived of supper by a fuming mum Waves of darkness came gushing from the abyss Running like death's ghost to swallow in its path all the light And with one last toss from the sun and his black blanket He eclipsed his final shine and then the darkness arrived At first there was silence but then echoed a roar From all those who lived like cattle to the rhythm of day Civilisation ran amok, and the workers fell to nap Whilst shops were robbed and plundered by the humans underpaid And as the banks slept, and the law dreamed of order And power slipped out of sweaty palmed politicians The law of the jungle took place in this disorder And the suits stripped and cowered in their marble island kitchens In clubs songs were played back to back for the youth Who regrouped there in masses all trembling with angst They had wished a revolution but as soon as it had come Chased oblivion with rum pills and industrial tracks Then all came to a halt as the power ran dry And the moon shun no more for the sun didn't spy The icy earth swung black and blind with lights absence And fear chilled all souls as they prayed to the skies Palaces, houses, apartments, flats, flowers Forests, green gardens, brown gates and front lawns Were thrown in huge fires set ablaze with small matches To etch the silhouettes of scared faces once more And since all the food had been looted with greed In the chaos that had stemmed from forgetting what dawn was Burnt corpses fed rats, and the rats fed the humans 'Till rats were no more and the humans ate corpses The shit cat viewed all this from the tiles of his rooftop His small house untouched due to rivers of tears That flowed out of his eyes and made waterfall walls As he wept for the glow of his sweet moon disappeared And through his drenched eyes he saw then far in the distance A shadow spin round in a furious fit For all the Mad Hatters had gathered round Saino's To dance, run and sing as they pranced round the pit Their shattered teeth clashing with bottles of glass And eyes red as rubies from madness and fumes In turn one by one howled and leapt in the fires To extinguish their souls and be one with the moon And as their flesh left them their souls grabbed the smoke Which whisked the ghosts up to the stars in the skies Where they landed on mars for it's told as a rumour The moon there still sings and shines nice on the eyes Alone the cat wept "A plague upon you wretched sun!" "You bring the burning pain of man to stain the doorstep that I sweep" The stars cackled at the sight, the fires crackled in the night And shone ablaze the scene that Lausse Had sought to hide within his dreams And his tears dripped and splashed a mossy puddle to a lake Which spilled and morphed into the Lethe river running free And paved before his eyes a road towards the sullen skies Where he could hear the mocking stars in fits as humans burned beneath He heard the laughs and calmly told the sun to leave said "Fuck a job, go sing to those who worship p's and being tanned" And he skirted down his roof and used a tile to surf the stream He tied a Rizla as a flag and bade a bye the burning damned The flesh of churning humans made their limbs appear to wave The shrieks would seem to cheer him luck as he departed from the land He yelled ahoy and grabbed the helm and set the sail towards the night And sung himself a song the sailors sing in ports of Amsterdam "Tenant un air bleu dans le crâne Je prends la peine de peindre mes pensées Je pends mes peines du rose des lèvres Pour l'garder en dehors de l'âme Je lance mes jambes devant En gambadant tout lentement dans l'noir En pensant sans élan au sens Je laisse au lendemain le drame La danse des diables et celle des anges M'allume en lampadaire le soir J'me serre les dents au flair des vents Qui perce, berçant l'odeur des flammes Mon âme j'la lance dans les courants De l'eau d'la mère J'me lave les mains mes peines me pèsent Et j'en veux pas quand j'm'envole loin dans l'au-delà" He sailed towards the stars and once beneath them yelled above "I seek to dance amidst the moon to blind my eyes of all things sad" "Curl my body in a ball upon the crevice of her arch" "For she can cradle me to sleep to hush the hummings of the Mad!" The stars where struck and startled harshly by the mortal cats demands But soon they rippled out and echoed loud a belly laugh anew For see, the stars are just the dead who sparkle hard to seem alive And there before them was a cat who'd blindly die to bed the moon They giggled "You will, you will, you will, you will Never, never, never, never Find a, find a, find a, find a Lover, lover, lover lover Haha, haha, haha, haha Haha, haha, haha, haha Haha, haha, haha, haha Haha, haha, haha, haha She will, she will, she will, she will Never, never, never, never Love you, love you, love you, love you As long, as long, as you're, as you're Living, living, living, living Living, living, living, living Living, living, living, living Living, living, living, living" Holler, hello, hallo May you hear my hollow heckle Echo high and halt the hollow howl You cackle in my ears I hope to sleep and drag the blinds I've peeped my peoples pantomime Enough to know to leave the show Before the closing hour arrives I wonder will I, will I, will I, will I Ever find a little silver Sliver of a linen line To sow myself a pillow Fit to kip and kick the bucket Make like hummus, dip or cut like scissors Slip like in your missus, duck like pecking Skip like class And leave this little life behind (The stars replied) "No chance little cat You aint died yet Our moon shines For the fellas in the fire pit!" (Kitten grabbed a Stella and replied) I would, I could, I should've Cooked and popped and snapped And crackled quick before your cackles Made me gag for some bromide I pander pious shouts to scout out your highness With loins burning more Than your burnt sparks provide us (The stars cursed the cat) (Chiming quiet in a choir) (They cackled at him) "Listen we know you ain't got The innards or the belly for a dive Tell us why you told The timid sun to hurry off a cliff" This world is clapped I didn't wanna see our errors in a light And call me tepid but I've hardly seen an effort make a diff "Call the kettle black But you just poured the oil on the fire" At least the better generation need No Clipper for their spliff Let them safely solve the world with sweaty thumbs In terms of fucks, I've given none and now I'm dying for, I'm dying for a kip "You will, you will, you will, you will Never, never, never, never Find a, find a, find a, find a Lover, lover, lover lover Haha, haha, haha, haha Haha, haha, haha, haha Haha, haha, haha, haha Haha, haha, haha, haha She will, she will, she will, she will Never, never, never, never Love you, love you, love you, love you As long, as long, as you're, as you're Living, living, living, living Living, living, living, living Living, living, living, living Living, living, living, living" I ask the stars (Hello Cat) Let me sleep (Let me sleep) Being stuck between two worlds is all I seek (It's all I seek) When I feel (When I feel) The day escape me (The day escape) Then I spend the night To tame the time that breaks me (Times that breaks me) When I wake (When I wake) In space I lull (In space I lull) To waste the time I'm gifted Just to feel control (To feel control) Like when you choose a person Knowing they're made of clay (They're make of clay) So when love crumbles once again Your not to blame (It's not your fault) I always feel Like life's a loop Till I find myself once more Dressed in a suit So I wear a suit all year To keep death distant But I know a persons missing When it's Christmas When I fear (When I fear) I'll cease to live (I'll cease to live) Before my pen (Before my pen) Writes all I'd give (Writes all I'd give) When my eyes (When my eyes) Meet starry nights (Meet starry nights) The thought of never being again Gives me a fright (Gives me a fright) When I watch (When I watch) A face adored (A face adored) Then I weep to think I'll see said face no more (Said face no more) When these fears (When these fears) Drive me to the brink (To the brink) Then love and fame (Fame) Till nothingness do sink Lausse looked down at his feet all bashful And gulped down his howling defeat His blue tiled barge merged to one with the seas And the ocean's garm showed him all he had dreamed of A handful of stars now blurry The waves turned their sharp beams furry and meek They played round his finger, he swirled out a tango And twirled 'em away with a swipe of a paw The lone moon her pale head; a bowl full of milk And a snout so close he could bend down and drink her Dinner alfresco alight with some tinsel He knelt down and smiled and the sight of this picture Then he fell head first in the picnic (Oh no, come back!) (Oh no) (Don't go little cat) "As one of our poets is fond of saying, if I may quote..." (Oh yes, yes, one of them) "Where are you going stream Far, far away Take me with you stream Take me on your dark journey Lord Frith Take me far away to the hearts of light The silence I give you my breath My life The silence"