Lyrics:
Lyrics: Alan Duffy / Music: Steven WilsonThe butterfly sailed on the breezePast a field of barbed wire treesWhere golden dragons chased aroundPampered poppies on the groundTwo silver trout sat way on highAnd watched a royal samuraiPlant two black orchids in a boxAnd strap it to a laughing foxA minstrel bought a crooked spoonHe gave it to a blue baboonWho filled it full of virgin snowAnd watched it in the afterglowFat toad stood in his ballet shoesTeaching sixteen kangaroosHow to skip across a lakeThey found it hard to stay awakeA pharaoh played a merry tuneAnd watched nine cats dance on the moonI didn't know what all this meantI didn't know why I'd been sent.The Insignificance version of Nine Cats has the following additional verse at the end:I threw 5 clocks down on my bedThe chimes danced out on golden threadsAnd turned to footprints on my wallSequined tears began to fall