Cat Power - She's Got You

I've got your picture that you gave to me
And its signed with love just like it used to be
The only thing different
The only thing new
I've got your picture, she's got you

I've got the records that we used to share
And they still sound the same as when you were here
The only thing different
The only thing new
I've got the records, she's got you

I've got your memory or has it got me
I really don't know
But i know it won't let me be

I've got your class ring that proved you cared
And it still looks the same as when you gave it dear
The only thing different
The only thing new
I've got these little things, she's got you

I've got your memory, or has it got me
I really don't know but I know it won't let me be
I've got your class ring that proved you cared
And it still looks the same as when you gave it dear

The only thing different
The only thing new
I've got these little things, she's got you

(originally recorded by Patsy Cline)

Cat Power - Naked, If I Want To (Jukebox version)

Would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an amplifier, oh, on time?
My sweet time

Well I ain't got no money
I will pay this time
And I ain't got no money
But I will pay you before I die

And would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an aeroplane while i'm high in all the sky?
And I got no mercy
I will pay this time
And I got no mercy
I will pay you before I die

(originally recorded by Moby Grape)

Cat Power - Woman Left Lonely

A woman left lonely

Will soon grow tired of waiting

She'll do crazy things

On lonely occasions

A simple conversation

With a strange man now and again

Makes a touchy situation

With her conscience now and then

And when she gets lonely

She's thinkin' 'bout her man

She knows he's takin' her for granted

And she just don't understand

Well, the fevers of the night

They burn an unloved woman

All those red-hot flames

Drive a sweet temptation

A woman left lonely

She's just the victim of her man

He can't keep up his own world

She does the best that she can

And a woman left lonely

Is lonely through and through

All along she conquers

All the hell he put her through

A woman left lonely

A woman left lonely

She's just a victim of her man

She gets tired waiting

All alone she's just waiting

(Janis Joplin)

Cat Power - Angelitos Negros

Pintor nacido en mi tierra
Con el pincel extranjero
Pintor que sigues el rumbo
De tantos pintores viejos

Aunque la Virgen sea blanca
Píntame angelitos negros
Que también se van al cielo
Todos los negritos buenos

Pintor, si pintas con amor
Por que desprecias su color
Si sabes que en el cielo
También los quiere Dios

Pintor de santos de alcoba
Si tienes alma en el cuerpo
Porque al pintar en tus cuadros
Te olvidaste de los negros

Siempre que pintas iglesias
Pintas angelitos bellos
Pero nunca te acordaste
De pintar un ángel negro

Aunque la Virgen sea blanca
Píntame angelitos negros
Que también se van al cielo
Todos los negritos buenos

Pintor, si pintas con amor
Por que desprecias su color
Si sabes que en el cielo
También los quiere Dios

Pintor de santos de alcoba
Si tienes alma en el cuerpo
Por que al pintar en tus cuadros
Te olvidaste de los negros

Siempre que pintas iglesias
Pintas angelitos bellos
Pero nunca te acordaste
De pintar un ángel negro

(originally recorded by Eartha Kitt)

Cat Power - Song to Bobby

I wanna tell you
I've always wanted to tell you
But I never had the chance to say
What I feel in my heart from the beginning til my til my dying day

I was fifteen, sixteen maybe
In the park I was waving my arms
You were wet with sweat
And you sang the song I was screaming
I wanted you to

Another time was in South Carolina
It's always been the third encore
Whose wind came blowing in
Can you tell me who were you singing for
Oh my God, can you tell me who you were singing to

A phone call from your New York City office
You were supposedly asking to see me
And how I wanted to tell you
That I was just only four hundred miles away
Who could believe that you were calling I was in DC
I was four hundred miles behind
Backstage pass in my hand
Giving you my heart was my plan I wish I could tell you

My chance
In the middle of the stadium in Paris, France
Can I finally tell you
Can I finally tell you
To be my man
April in Paris, can I see you
Can you please be my man

Cat Power - I Feel

I feel like I'mma lose my life for this
I feel like I'mma have to fight for this
I feel motherfuckers they goin' say I'm wrong
I feel you're goin' get buck when you hear my song
I feel you don't even know how I feel
I feel if you hate me you got to get real
I feel like go to Texas and for me some brick
I feel the policeman making me sick
I feel like I could be the president
I feel like burning up their bodies to leave no evidence
I feel you don't even know how I feel
Respect my mind I'm just telling you how I feel

Do you feel like you could lose your life for this
Do you feel like you could fight for this
Do you feel like go to Texas and for me some brick
Do you feel the policeman I'm making you sick
Do you feel like you could be the president
feel like burning up their bodies to leave no evidence
Do you feel like they don't even know how we feel
I feel that they hate us, we got to get real
Got to get real, real

(originally recorded by Hot Boys)

Cat Power - Metal Heart [Jukebox version]

Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
You're losing the calling that you've been faking
And I'm not kidding

It's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do
Be true, 'cause they'll lock you up in a sad, sad zoo
Oh, hidy-hidy-hiding, whatcha trying to prove?
By hidy-hidy-hiding
You're not worth a thing

Sew your fortunes on a string
And hold them up to light
Blue smoke will take
A very violent flight
And you will be changed and everything
And you will be
In a very sad, sad zoo

I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see you
How selfish of you
To believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming

Metal heart, you're not hiding
Metal heart, you're not worth a thing

Metal heart, you're not hiding
Metal heart, you're not worth a thing

Cat Power - Breathless

It's up in the morning and on the downs
Little white clouds like gambolling lambs
And I am breathless over you

And the red-breasted robin beats his wings
His throat it trembles when he sings
For he is helpless before you

The happy hooded bluebells bow
And bend their heads all a-down
Heavied by the early morning dew

At the whispering stream, at the bubbling brook
The fishes leap up to take a look
For they are breathless over you

Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew

Still your mind
Still your soul
For still, the fare of love is true
And I am breathless without you

The wind circles among the trees
And it bangs about the new-made leaves
For it is breathless without you

The fox chases the rabbit round
The rabbit hides beneath the ground
For he is defenceless without you

The sky of daytime dies away
And all the earthly things they stop to play
For we are all breathless without you

I listen to my juddering bones
The blood in my veins and the wind in my lungs
And I am breathless without you

Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew

Still your soul
Still your mind
Still, the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you

(originally recorded by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds)

Cat Power - Don’t Explain

Hush now, don't explain
You're the cause of all my trouble and pain
Unless you're mine
Don't explain

My love, my love, my love, don't explain
There is nothing within me now to gain

You know that I love you, but look at what lovin' has done
All my thoughts were real and so sincere
I was so completely yours.

I know I hear folks ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-chatter
And I know you cheat
Right or wrong, right now it doesn't matter
You're with me, sit down, have a seat,
It's your turn to feel the pain.
It's your turn to weep.
Don't explain

Hush now, don't explain,
There is nothing within me now to gain.
I'm gonna skip out ??
Don't explain.
Don't explain.

(Billie Holiday)

Cat Power - Naked, If I Want To

Would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an amplifier, oh, on time?
My sweet time

Well I ain't got no money
I will pay this time
And I ain't got no money
But I will pay you before I die

And would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to?
Can I fire fireworks on the fourth of every single July?
Can I buy an aeroplane while i'm high in all the sky?
And I got no mercy
I will pay this time
And I got no mercy
I will pay you before I die

(originally recorded by Moby Grape)