The Chariot-The Cat Empire

[ti:The Chariot] [ar:The Cat Empire] [al:Two Shoes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Chariot - The Cat Empire [00:34.77]This is a song that came upon me [00:36.39]One night [00:37.39]When the news it had been telling me [00:39.33]About one more war and one more fight [00:41.01]And 'aeh' I sighed but then [00:42.64]I thought about my friends [00:43.89]Then I wrote this declaration [00:45.07] [00:45.58]Just in case the world end [00:47.51]Our guns [00:48.01] [00:48.64]We shot them in the things we said [00:50.64]Ah we didn't need no bullets [00:52.33]Cos we rely on some words instead [00:54.33]Kill someone in argument [00:55.89]Outwit them with our brains [00:57.51]And we'd kill ourselves laughing [00:59.14]At the funny things we'd say [01:00.77]And bombs [01:01.51] [01:02.14]We had them saved for special times [01:04.14]When the crew would call a shakedown [01:05.96]We break down a party landmine [01:07.58]Women that so sexy [01:09.08]They explode us with their looks [01:10.83]Ah we blowing up some speakers [01:12.45]Jumping round till the ground shook [01:14.20]And missiles [01:14.89] [01:15.39]They were the roadtrips that we launched [01:17.45]T-t-tripping across this island [01:19.08]Starting missions at the break of dawn [01:21.33]Yawn and smile say [01:22.58]'What direction shall we take ' [01:24.20]'Somewhere where it warm and wet' [01:26.02]This be the route we'd always take and [01:27.77] [01:28.59]Our weapons were our instruments [01:30.46] [01:31.21]Made from timber and steel [01:34.03]We never yielded to conformity [01:36.78]But stood like kings [01:38.27]In a chariot that's riding on a [01:40.14]Record wheel [01:41.08] [02:10.20]Our weapons were our instruments [02:12.14] [02:12.95]Made from timber and steel [02:15.45]We never yielded to conformity [02:18.20]But stood like kings [02:19.95]In a chariot that's riding on a [02:21.70]Record wheel [02:22.95] [02:24.20]Our weapons were our instruments [02:26.83]Made from timber and steel [02:29.64]We never yielded to conformity [02:32.39]But stood like kings [02:33.83]In a chariot that's riding on a [02:35.83]Record wheel [02:36.83] [03:04.20]And our airforce flying [03:06.02]When the frisbee in the sky [03:07.39]Have a session while we're smoking [03:09.02]Now we're feeling extra high [03:11.08]And we'd sneak into a carpark [03:12.71]With the skaties on our back [03:14.39]And we're flying down the levels howling [03:16.39]'On the attack now on the attack' [03:18.33]And battles [03:19.27]They happened in these dancehalls [03:21.20]See we'd rather fight with music [03:22.89]Choosing one the rhythm war [03:24.21] [03:24.89]Battle at these shakedowns [03:26.33]And we battle at these gigs [03:27.96]We do battle in our bedrooms [03:29.58]Made some sweet love to the beat [03:31.27]Then our allies grew [03:33.08]Wherever we would roam [03:34.77]See whenever we're together [03:36.39]Any stranger feel at home [03:38.15]In a way we are an army [03:39.83]But this army not destruct [03:41.46]No instead we're doing simple things [03:43.33]Good loving find it run amuck [03:45.14]This be a declaration [03:46.64]Written about my friends [03:48.08]It's engraved into this song [03:49.64]So they know I'm not forgetting them [03:51.52]See maybe if the world contained [03:53.27]More people like these [03:54.76]Then the news would not be telling me [03:56.70]About all that warfare endlessly and [03:58.45] [03:59.27]Our weapons were our instruments [04:01.39] [04:01.95]Made from timber and steel [04:04.77]We never yielded to conformity [04:07.46]But stood like kings [04:08.90]In a chariot that's riding on [04:10.35]A record wheel