Belle And Sebastian Share New Song "The Cat with the Cream”

Belle and Sebastian have shared a new song called “The Cat with the Cream”, which will appear on their forthcoming Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance LP. Listen to it below via The Line of Best Fit. You can check out the song’s lyrics below, too. Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is out January 19 on Matador.

“The Cat with the Cream”:

Sitting at the old kitchen table                               
Peace and health and dreams  
Stretching out in the darkness                  
Mother’s up the stairs with her ageing new boyfriend             
Cathy’s staying in to make sure nothing happens                   
All aboard the freak parade                                               
I cover up my head and pray                                             
I’m praying for the light                                                                                           
Down amongst the old city chambers                
Men in frocks debate all the policy changes                              
Everybody bet on the boom and got busted                               
Everybody bet and in the government trusted                
Grubby little red MP                                                 
Yellow flapping hopelessly
 
Tory like the cat with the cream                                        
Tory like the cat with the cream                                        
I studied you in history                                            
I studied in the library                                             
In days of old when knights were bold                            
They’d settle it with sword and shield                             
In days of old when knights were bold                            
It’s settled by the king                                             
 
Praying for a friend is contagious
Specially when it comes at the old kitchen table
Listening for the swoosh of his quickening paces
Watching for the smile on the bravest of faces
How I wish you’d read to me
Verses rich in swallows and trees
Get me though the night 
 
Waiting at the old kitchen table
Listening for my code listening for my instructions
Surely now I’m here, I am destined for greatness
I want to be the Queen pulling kids out of rivers
All aboard the freak parade
I cover up my head and pray
 
Praying for the cat with the cream                                    
Praying for the cat with the cream                                    
I studied you in history                                            
I studied in the library                                                         
In days of old when knights were bold                            
They’d settle it with sword and shield                             
In days of old when knights were bold                            
It’s settled by the king
It’s settled by the king
It’s settled by the king
It’s settled by the king

Watch Belle and Sebastian perform “I’m a Cuckoo” at Pitchfork Music Festival:

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