The Cat Empire Rhyme & Reason song lyrics

Rhyme and reason

Reason and rhyme

We asked the old man

“What is the time?”

The time he said

“I do not know.

The clock stopped working some time ago”

“What a disaster” was our reply

“We don’t know if it’s 1 o’clock or half past 5”

The man kept talking things were fine

Looking at the sun he said

The time was for reason and rhyming

Reason and rhyme

Rhyme and reason

We asked the old lady “What is this season?”

The season she said

“You can’t be sure.

The weathers changed, can’t tell you any more”

“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god what a thing!

We don’t know if it’s summer, autumn, winter or spring”

“But wait,” she said

“This might be pleasing.

The time has come for rhyming and rhyming and reason”

Rhyme and reason and destination

We ask ourselves, what is this nation?

This place they say is no mans land

And terra nullius is written in the sand

So what

With all these spaces

Can’t we be independent and combine the races

Well we will see what we can do

Like time and season

We’ll rhyme and then we’ll reason along