He butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed wire trees Where golden dragons chased around Pampered poppies on the ground Two silver trout sat way on high And watched a royal samurai Plant two black orchids in a box And strap it to a laughing fox A minstrel bought a crooked spoon He gave it to a blue baboon Who filled it full of virgin snow And watched it in the afterglow Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes Teaching sixteen kangaroos How to skip across a lake They found it hard to stay awake A pharaoh played a merry tune And watched nine cats dance on the moon I didn't know what all this meant I didn't know why I'd been sent. The Insignificance version of Nine Cats has the Following additional verse at the end: I threw five clocks down on my bed The chimes danced out on golden threads And turned to footprints on my wall Sequined tears began to fall
The other version is like having some hope. This version feels like you literally lost, Gave up but atleast you know that it's better to accept rather than being illusional
Awesome. This is the Steven i love... in recent times seems that he lost the right direction .... i can't hear his music after hand cannot erase.. the best moment for me are the first cassette - love, death and m. Passing through Tarquin seaweed Farm - til stars die collection.. good period from signify to hand cannot... the rest is better forget it..
the original version was first released in 1991, in the 'nostalgia factory' demo. but the acoustic version was released in the remastered version of the album 'signify' in 2014. it's the last son of the second cd of the remastered version which was labeled 'Insignificance (Demos 1995-96)'. so, it must be recorded before 1996 for an album.
