The Cat Empire - Lyrics - The Mother Place

Song title: The Mother Place
Written by: F Riebl
Featured recordings:
- The Sun (2002)
- The Car Song (2005)

Lyrics:
Up up and down
From the country to the town
Through the streets of the city
From the sky to the ground
In the alleyways
In the mad night sound
We been looking,
But still we haven't found
What we looking for
For all of our days
Searching like prophets
In this great big haze
Of consumers, banks
And commercial shit
And most of the people
They sit.
And think that is living
A part of their lives
But if that is living
Then their lives are in strife
So now we be searching
Searching for some space
That's right we be in the search
For the mother place.

And when we get there
By land or by sea
By climbing up a mountain
Or swinging through some trees
On arrival we'll get
A sense of the place
We'll feel it in the air
And the smiles on our face
Will grow, when
The living does begin
When the banks they
Are burning
And the mobiles don't ring
No more
Radiation will cease
We'll be lying outside
Drinking brews in the heat.
And at this destination
We'll be doing what we want
Not because it's fashion
But because it's our response
And we'll write and we'll read
And we'll work and we'll feed
And we won't need nothing
From societies of greed.

And if you want
We could write a postcard
But those with their minds
Will find that it's far
Better to search
For a better living
Better to be alive
Than waiting for an ending.
And some might say
"That place don't exist
It's something that you're
Dreaming
It's something that you wished".
Reply is simple
We'll say it to be clear
"If we don't find that place
Then we'll make it right here".
Because we're rhyming for
A reason
Playing cos we can
We didn't ask permission
And we enter with a bang
And the empire say
That everyone should
Have a face
That's why we be in search
For the mother place.