When You’re a Cat

Lyrics

[Cat] When you're a cat You know the ways into and out of An empty flat All falling down The fixtures dangling at sad angles The walls gone brown And there's a plucky lass Sleeping behind the glass You know her When you're a cat You see it all, without detection You're good at that The phantom stands Before the glass, without reflection Pushing her hands Through it as through water Lifting out her daughter As it were This strange creature knows only rats And bats, and that's fine She knows bugger-all about cats So the advantage is thine Being a cat is divine When you're a cat You hide your clads in paws to be Ready for combat Her claws are long But by the laws of evolution, they're Made all wrong I will not hesitate To sit around and wait Licking fur