[Lyrics: Alan Duffy / Music: Steven Wilson]
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The butterfly sailed on the breeze
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Past a field of barbed wire trees
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Where golden dragons chased around
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Pampered poppies on the ground
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Two silver trout sat way on high
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And watched a royal samurai
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Plant two black orchids in a box
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And strap it to a laughing fox
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A minstrel bought a crooked spoon
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He gave it to a blue baboon
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Who filled it full of virgin snow
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And watched it in the afterglow
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Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes
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Teaching sixteen kangaroos
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How to skip across a lake
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They found it hard to stay awake
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A pharaoh played a merry tune
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And watched nine cats dance on the moon
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I didn't know what all this meant
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I didn't know why I'd been sent.
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The Insignificance version of Nine Cats has the
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following additional verse at the end:
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I threw 5 clocks down on my bed
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The chimes danced out on golden threads
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And turned to footprints on my wall
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Sequined tears began to fall
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