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Cat Power - The Covers Record

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Release date: 09 September 2003

Cat Power - The Covers Record

The Covers Record

Spend too much time here, however, and you might need an emergency injection of [B]Kool & The Gang[/B]...

Chan Marshall , aka Cat Power , hails from the same parched singer/ songwriting terrain as Smog . Rather than engage in another bout of potentially self-indulgent miserablism, she's decided on her fifth album to apply her minimalist approach to other people's songs. 'The Covers Record' features some obscure material - two songs by little-known Greenwich Village...

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Cat Power - The Covers Record: Wikipedia Album Entry

The Covers Record is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power. The album consists almost entirely of cover songs. It was released in 2000 on Matador Records. In 2005 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.

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Cat Power - The Covers Record Lyrics

Cat Power - I Found a Reason Lyrics

( velvet underground )

Oh I do believe

In all the things you say

What comes is better than what came before

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Cat Power - Troubled Waters Lyrics

I must be
One of The Devil's daughters
They look at me with scorn
I'll never hear their horn

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Cat Power - Swee Dee Dee Lyrics

( michael hurley )

You wash them clothes

Swee dee dee

And hang em on the line

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Cat Power - Sea of Love Lyrics

Come with me
My love to the sea
The sea of love

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Cat Power - Salty Dog Lyrics

Salty dog, salty dog
I don't wanna be your Annie doll
Honey let me be your salty dog
Candy man

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Cat Power - Red Apples. Lyrics

I went down to the river to meet the widow
She gave me an apple and it was red
I slept in her black arms for a century
She wanted nothing in return I gave her nothing in return

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Cat Power - Paths of Victory Lyrics

The trail is dark and dusty
The road is kinda rough
But the clearer road up yonder
With the cinders on the side

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Cat Power - Naked if I Want To Lyrics

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

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Cat Power - Kingsport Town Lyrics

The winter wind is blowing so strong
My hands have got no gloves
Wish to my sole that I could have
The boy I'm dreaming of

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Cat Power - Wild is The Wind Lyrics

Love me, love me, say you do
Let me fly away with you

We are creatures of the wind

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