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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[Chorus]
G Dm
Lord unchain my hands
G Dm
Let me sing inside the crowded trams
G Dm
Let me dance among the traffic jams
G Dm
We're gonna sleep on the St. Kilda sands
G Dm
Lord unbind my feet
G Dm
Let me mingle with the good people we meet
G Dm
Water rising up into the street
G Dm
Unbind my feet
[Verse 1]
G
The apparition of these faces in the crowd
Dm
Petals on a wet black bough
G
Ezra Pound found the formula
Our houses are rectangular
Dm
But life is curved not angular
So when things start to strangular
G
Remember rain still falls on the halls of power
Dm
New babies being born every hour
G
And the eagle keeps watch on the old clock tower
Dm
Over me
[Chorus]
G Dm
Lord unchain my hands
G Dm
Let me sing inside the crowded trams
G Dm
Let me dance among the traffic jams
G Dm
We're gonna sleep on the St. Kilda sands
G Dm
Lord unbind my feet
G Dm
Let me mingle with the good people we meet
G Dm
Water rising up into the street
G Dm
Unbind my feet
[Verse 2]
G
On the train I refrain
From sitting with heads and shoulders bowed
Dm
They told me time is of the essence
No wandering allowed
G
But then I saw a pretty girl
Whose features stood out in the crowd
Dm
Went ten minutes past my stop
Waiting for her to look around
G
I'm just another clown
Kicking around in Melbourne town
Dm
Cooling out, relaxing
Watching the world go 'round
G
So if you ever got the time
And you want to go drink some wine
Dm
I'd rather greet you with a smile
Than greet you with a frown
[Chorus]
G Dm
Lord unchain my hands (unchain my hands)
G Dm
Let me sing inside the crowded trams (sing inside the crowded trams)
G Dm
Let me dance among the traffic jams( among the traffic jams)
G Dm
We're gonna sleep on the St. Kilda sands (da!)
G Dm
Lord unbind my feet (I said a lord.. I said a lord, unbind my feet!)
G Dm
Let me mingle with the good people we meet
G Dm
Water rising up into the street (up into the street!)
G Dm
Unbind my feet
[Scat singing]
G Dm G Dm G Dm G Dm G
G Dm
Lord unchain my hands
G Dm
Let me sing inside the crowded trams
G Dm
Let me dance among the traffic jams
G Dm
We're gonna sleep on the St. Kilda sands
G Dm
Lord unbind my feet
G Dm
Let me mingle with the good people we meet
G Dm
Water rising up into the street
G Dm
Unbind my feet
[Verse 1]
G
The apparition of these faces in the crowd
Dm
Petals on a wet black bough
G
Ezra Pound found the formula
Our houses are rectangular
Dm
But life is curved not angular
So when things start to strangular
G
Remember rain still falls on the halls of power
Dm
New babies being born every hour
G
And the eagle keeps watch on the old clock tower
Dm
Over me
[Chorus]
G Dm
Lord unchain my hands
G Dm
Let me sing inside the crowded trams
G Dm
Let me dance among the traffic jams
G Dm
We're gonna sleep on the St. Kilda sands
G Dm
Lord unbind my feet
G Dm
Let me mingle with the good people we meet
G Dm
Water rising up into the street
G Dm
Unbind my feet
[Verse 2]
G
On the train I refrain
From sitting with heads and shoulders bowed
Dm
They told me time is of the essence
No wandering allowed
G
But then I saw a pretty girl
Whose features stood out in the crowd
Dm
Went ten minutes past my stop
Waiting for her to look around
G
I'm just another clown
Kicking around in Melbourne town
Dm
Cooling out, relaxing
Watching the world go 'round
G
So if you ever got the time
And you want to go drink some wine
Dm
I'd rather greet you with a smile
Than greet you with a frown
[Chorus]
G Dm
Lord unchain my hands (unchain my hands)
G Dm
Let me sing inside the crowded trams (sing inside the crowded trams)
G Dm
Let me dance among the traffic jams( among the traffic jams)
G Dm
We're gonna sleep on the St. Kilda sands (da!)
G Dm
Lord unbind my feet (I said a lord.. I said a lord, unbind my feet!)
G Dm
Let me mingle with the good people we meet
G Dm
Water rising up into the street (up into the street!)
G Dm
Unbind my feet
[Scat singing]
G Dm G Dm G Dm G Dm G
The Chiffons
The Children (...)
The Choir Practi (...)
The Chongkeys
The Chordettes
The Click Five
The Clientele
The Cliks
The Coasters
The Cog Is Dead