Cosmonauts 

music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

Darling, tell me how 
We are floating 
So high above the clouds 
&, darling, tell me why 
we are still alive 

We’re not breathing, we’re just being 
We’re not breathing, we’re just being 

& we are not cosmonauts 
We are light & thought, we are holy 

We’re not breathing, we’re just being 
We’re not breathing, we’re just being 

& we are not cosmonauts 
We are light & thought, we are holy 
& we are not cosmonauts 
We are light & thought, we are holy 
& we are not cosmonauts 
We are light & thought, we are holy 
We are holy 
We are holy…

Mortal Cathedrals

Cosmonauts

Heart of the Sea 

music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

I was adrift, 
The man that I was, was a ship 
That was trying to drown 
And the ship, that I was, 
Was sinking without making a sound 

CH: 
And my heart was a sea of smashed pianos 
And the sea was sharp, and the sea 
And my love was a tattered sail that hung lifeless 
Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly 
Endlessly... 

And all hands abandoned the deck 
All that remained was the wreck 
Of a ship that was gathering gloom 
And the ship, that I was, 
Was sinking by the light of the moon 

CH: 
BR: 

She appeared from the mist 
Bade me to shake free my barnacles 
It was time to fly 
And the ship, that I was 
Is still sailing through the stars tonight 

Ch: 
And my heart is a sea of constellations 
And she is the heart of the sea 
And my love is the force that's expanding the universe 
Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly 

And my heart is a sea of constellations 
And she is the heart of the sea 
And my love is the force that's expanding the universe 
Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly 
Endlessly...

Heart of the Sea

Heart Of The Sea

The Beautiful Chaos of Time 

music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

Arcadia can be anything 
The past is arithmetic 
Paradise is merely a feeling 
And the future is synthetic 

So let me know your pain 
In a rosary of stars 
Let me know your love 
From your patterns and your scars 

CH: 
We're just children floating in space 
We're just children floating in space 
We're just children floating in space 
And we illuminate like beacons of fate 

Life can be the chance to glimpse the divine 
The beautiful chaos of time 

So let me know your pain 
In a tapestry of stars 
Let me know your love 
Let your prophecy break my heart 

CH:

The Beautiful Chaos of Time

The Beautiful Chaos Of Time

Sabres Sheathed 

words/music: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

I’ll meet you on the bridge at dawn 
Sabres sheathed & pistols drawn 
I’ll bury you behind the cypress trees 
& if I fall you’ll do the same for me 

I’ll call on your pretty, young, bride 
Dry her tears & hold her through the night 
Our lips will lock & our limbs will intertwine 
& if I fall you’ll do the same for mine 

CH: 

I’ll stagger through the midnight streets in pain 
Broken hearted, bewildered, & insane 
& every glass, oh I will raise it in your name 
& if i fall you’ll do the same 

CH:

Sabres Sheathed

Dedicated to the memory of David Bowie...

Mortal Cathedrals 

words/music: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

Thin as a shadow 
Draped in the Starlight the made ya 
You fell from the Earth 
While we clung to you like a saviour 

& baby you never showed your face 
Maybe you were trying to distract us 
Baby you’ve sacrificed yourself 
Maybe you were trying to protect us 

CH: Like mortal cathedrals 
Like mortal cathedrals 
Like mortal chathedrals 

Like vapour, or, like smoke 
Slipping through backdoors & cages 
& every practiced pose 
Was showing us how to be courageous 

But now we are luminous 
With your Starlight a symbol 
A host of smoldering embers 
Until our foundations crumble 

CH:

Love is Impossible 

music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 


Gravity works differently in the underworld 
So I ascended from the center of the earth 
Like Orpheus, I had to retrace my steps 
& that is how we met 

CH: 
If love is impossible, so are we 
If love is impossible, so are we 
If love is impossible, so are we 
If love is impossible, so are we 

While we wept with wolves, we waited 
For the gods to fall asleep 
&, as the dawn broke, they found we had absconded 
By the skins of our teeth 

CH: 

Bridge: 
As we sailed to the edge of the world 
I said, “I can see the past from here” 
You said, “What the hell” 
& pinned a rose to my lapel 
& we left the atmosphere 

CH:

Love is Impossible

Love Is Impossible

Fluidity of Fate 

words/music: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

As you sink into the soil 
Chemically unchanged 
A hundred billion stars go out at once 
Behold the pillars of flame 

The seas will churn forever 
As the moon betrays the tide 
A battery of waves will prove that history is changing 
& the sacred will survive 

The sacred will survive, the sacred will survive 

CH: la la… 

The breath that will not catch 
The thirst that will not slake 
The galaxy expands & then extinguishes her children 
The fluidity of fate 

The fluidity of fate, the fluidity of fate 

CH:

Fluidity of Fate

Fluidity Of Fate

Glitter, can be seen on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwhJ17F6TOg

Glitter 

words/music: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

Bright lights & smoke 
Hanging heavy as a cloak 
The only way to keep the wolves at bay 

Feathers & claws 
An empty room filled with applause 
& I can’t, no I can’t look away 

CH: How can we act our age 
When there’s glitter covering the stage 
This is the blood from our veins 
This is the blood from our veins 

Stars & silhouettes 
May our hearts beat full & without regret 
Spend the evening, spend the night 
Please just stay 

The scent of sparks 
An empty room silent & dark 
Bienvenue, bienvenue au cabaret 

CH: 

BR: 

CH:

Glitter

Love Me 

words/music: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

The glimmer of a rendezvous 
Is a memory of the future 
Oh but being so close to you 
Has got me tearing at my sutures 

& you look right through me 
An apprehensive apparition 
If you only knew me 
I'd be above your suspicions 

CH: Just tell me that you love me 
You don't have to mean it 
Just tell me that you love me 
& make sure that I believe it 

You reacted viciously 
To the heart that you're betraying 
& darling, there's no sympathy 
For a heart that is decaying 

Still I stand here pleading 
With my feet firmly planted 
Baby, i'm just needing 
To be taken for granted 

CH: 

BRIDGE: 

This illusion of romance 
Is only getting obscener 
It's all passion without substance 
& it's darkening my demeanor 

CH:

Love Me

1,000 Chandeliers 

words/music: Waylon K. Smith 
©2017 The Positronic Cats 

Don't ever look at me, touch me, or talk to me 
I can exist just like this 
You fed on my weaknesses, you know I get speechless 
Then I freeze up 
I'm not playing dumb, I am biting my tongue for good reason dear 
& if this is some game, well it's cruel & insane & I'm leaving here
I am leaving... 

I will crystallize your tears & make a thousand chandeliers (x4) 

Don't ever look at me, touch me, or talk to me 
I can exist just like this 
You fed on my weaknesses, you know I get speechless 
Then I freeze up 
I'm not playing dumb, I am biting my tongue for good reason dear 
& if this is some game, well it's cruel & insane & I'm leaving here

don't look so surprised, I am simply paralyzed (x2) 

Well you've carved out your life with some dull, rusty knife 
Now you're tasting it 
And you've got what you want so stop 
Crossing my lines you are taking my time and you are wasting it 
You are wasting it 

I will crystallize your tears & make a thousand chandeliers (x4)

1,000 Chandeliers

The Positronic Cats are an acoustic, folk duo from Greencastle, PA. Simple chord progressions paired with powerful vocals and intricate mandolin phrasings are the foundation for songs about love, revenge, and the future.

Waylon K. Smith: vocals/classical guitar
Jim Taylor: mandolin

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