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Cat Of The Month

She was the “Cat of the Month” it said
When I went in to find a new friend
Went into it with all my hope dead

When I got her home she made the rounds
In the evening I played her Pet Sounds
Then I knew it; my friend had been found

Now she’s always on the window sill
Wanting only to make a fresh kill
And she’ll do it – she knows her own will

Looking Alive

In a world where the head is hollow and it haunts the hands so hard the heart goes blind
One boy will walk out
In the midst of this tale of survival he meets up with a bear named Clive
The bees are buzzin’ but he head-butts the honey hive
Looking alive

Starring Kate Beckinsale as Catherine who has seen her cat, her mom, her dad, her mind
Pass away into darkness
She’s a foil to our favorite fuck-up, the boy who has been revived
Coming soon in an epic production
The story of a man reborn by induction:
“Looking Alive”

Looking alive
But will the boy survive?
He once was born to roam,
Now love will call him home.

Back at work with the boy and his bear-friend, they’re shocked when their friend bares her breasts offline
The gratuitous nude scene
See the drama, see the sex in the office, see the boy gone off his mind
He’s got ’em buzzin’ ’cause he’s leaving at a quarter to five
Looking alive

In our first episode with our hero he was hibernating, waiting for a sign
So we gave him machine guns
He didn’t like it but we needed the rating and the writers were all on strike
That was dumb, but this’ll be dumber
Coming alive this summer:
“Looking Alive”

Big Black Bear

Looks like you’re lumbering, lolling
Out from that damp, woozy hole in the ground
Where you slept sound
All through the winter

A week from now you’ll be loungin’
You’ll find a nook on that mountain somewhere
Just a black bear
Takin’ a cat nap

Sun, sun, get me over my head
Sun, sun, sing me softly to bed
Sun, sun, wake me up from the dead

Those storms, the darkness you slept through
Red berries blinded and kept you for months
Ate ’em up once
Lasted all winter

How much can your brain remember
It’s buried back in December a dream
What could it mean
Is it a bear trap

Sun, sun, get me over my head
Sun, sun, sing me softly to bed
Sun, sun, wake me up from the dead

Eyes in the dark

See what your eyes did
Behind your eyelids
Two bulging bulbs and they won’t shut tight
Just try to close them
They’re always open
What do you see in the darkest light?

The answer is an all-white cat
Inside his snow-capped habitat
He lolls, he rolls through all that
The answer is a cat

The answer is a big black bear
His wounds are in a womb somewhere
A hairy, scary blank stare
The answer is a bear

The answer is a yellow bird
Up high he flies, it’s just absurd
How long his song goes unheard
The answer is a bird

See what your eyes did
Behind your eyelids
Two bulging bulbs and they won’t shut tight
Just try to close them
They’re always open
What do you see in the darkest light?
How can you sleep through the night?

Pretty Kitty

Our new speckled rug
Black and brown and oblong
The cat sits there
How long

Braided rings and dots
Round and round in patches
Look at her there
Little Miss-Matches

Your back riddled with spots
—Stops—
Riddled back atcha!
Ha Ha

The Eternal Meow

On the forest fringe, where catbirds with crude and disjointed vowels
Mimic the Eternal Meow, she wanders quiet and keen
In that instant when she kills the infinitesimal Mouse,
Words can't catch the cat's dread beauty, nor name the songbird’s clear speech.

Alone without words for this death wish, I’m an infinite Mouth.
Over the far field I’ll fly: a word without animal sounds.

Wild Cat of Borneo

You were there watching when her blood was in trouble and she fell to the floor
I couldn’t tell if she was spirit or tissue, I just couldn’t be sure
You were witness to her unconsciousness
Animals have no soul
They came up from the ocean aimless on all fours

Leap at my legs
Knock me flat
Scratch out my eyes
Wild cat of Borneo

You were there watching with her blood pumping double as she walked out the door
I looked inside her for new hope and new life but I don’t know anymore
You are witless, viewing just the surface
No sense of right or wrong
Far across the big ocean men were raised by wolves

Spread my remains
On the mat
Tear out my soul
Wild cat of Borneo

Mouse in your house

You’ve got a mouse in your house
There’s something dead in your bed
And now you no longer sleep at night, honey
Your heart’s as heavy as lead

Your daughter’s under the water
She’s sound asleep in the deep
But I could never have loved you right, baby
Where’s a love you can keep?

You’ve got a mouse in your house
She’s sound asleep in the deep
Underneath it all, unspeakable
Torn apart in the cleanest sweep

Someday maybe your baby
Will finally sever the ties with the hole where she lies
And her soul it will rise…
It will rise up into the skies…
High up over the Earth…
Far above our crying eyes…
A rebirth –
And our love:
What was it worth?

You’ve got a bug under your rug
He plays a game with your shame
Now all I want is to hold you tight, honey
Apart from all of the blame

You’re far away from a new day
It’s like a tomb in your room
I want to pray for our souls tonight, baby
But I don’t want to presume

You’ve got a bug in your rug
It’s like a tomb in your room
Underneath it all, unspeakable
We should never have left the womb

Subanimal Sounds

Subanimal sounds
Catch your tongue and trail around it
It might be a mouse
Maybe it’s your kill that caught ya
Blood on the ground
Beating on your baby eardrums
(beat beat)

Feel that pink heart pound

Subliminal mouth
Speaks in tongues of men and mice and
When crying out loud
Curls up like a cat, a coma
She’s underground
Singing from the tops of mountains
(bop bop)

She’s a dead soul’s sound

Kissing Katherine

Kissing Katherine oh my God
I’m not getting younger
That woman sure as hell won’t kill me
And she won’t make me stronger
She’s got a cat that runs out all night
Then comes home to claim her
Kissing Katherine oh my God I’m not
Kate it’s eatin’ me alive

Caitie wakes and her cat jumps up
On the bed that she slept in
That kitty’s got it all figured out
He’s got secret weapons
Later on her man moved in
And yes, Caitie kept him
Kissing Catherine oh my God I’m not
Cait it’s eatin’ me alive

Life is long and it falls away so slow
Kissing Katherine on the way down
Kissing Katherine all the way down low
Oh no

Now she keeps three cats close by
They’re for her protection
Those pussycats eat it up
They’ve got her affection
Funny how life sometimes falls
In every direction
Kissing Kathryn oh my God I’m not

Life is long and it falls away so slow
Kissing Kathryn all the way down low

Faith Of Our Fathers

The faith of our fathers
It's deep and strong within us
Living in us
Cleansing sinners in its dark sea
In me it's a sinking stone
In you it's apostasy

Ostensibly sired by cuckolds and kings
Our blood is a mixture of beastly things
This moment in time is a sin
Oh, how the fathers and their fathers' fathers
Are mourning now for their Sunday mornings
Sons have a song to sing:

The faith of our fathers
It's deep and strong within us
Living in us
Cleansing sinners in its dark sea
In you it's your skin and bone
In me it's hypocrisy

We're saving our souls like animals do
So sing hymns of nature if nature's true
"The meaning of life is within!"
Oh, how the fathers and their fathers' fathers
Are evened out in their Sunday evenings
Sons have a song to sing:

The faith of our fathers
It's deep and strong within us
Living in us
Cleansing sinners in its dark sea

Dog Loves You

Cat's eyes piercing dumb devotion
Calling out so clearly:
"Though you're just an animal in spirit, I love you"
Dog's eyes deep and dark as oceans
Saying so sincerely:
"Death is at the door, but don't you fear it - I love you"

If I loved me half as much as I do
I would say those wishful words "I love you too"

There's a God, I'll wager that much
Don't mean to sound preachy
But by God I'll live for that almighty I love you

If I loved me half as much as I do
I would hear those wishful words "I love you too"

There's a Dog with black eyes and such
dead like God, like Neitzsche
There's a yellow bird that siongs out nightly "I love you"

I love you
I love you
Even though self-love goes unrequited
I love you

When You Had Babies

When you had babies
Blindly they opened their mouths
You settled near them
Free wills and clean kills and no doubts

I’m full of birds and bees
Sometimes I open my mouth
And I can hear them
Stinging and singing, and so loud

When they were borne out
Me with my unrest
How could I name them?
I settled for much, much less…
Now you meow me out of my speechlessness

Pick your kittens up by the scruffs of their necks
Carry them ’round in pairs, one of each sex
Then let them run everywhere
Mom, Dad, I think I’m pregnant
Mom, Dad, or maybe I was dumb

Man or Beast

This concludes our story
All the rewrites are closed
The questions are posed
Animals were harmed in the filming
And the public was fleeced
And now the reprise:
Are we Man or Beast?

Back in hibernation
Our protagonist goes
To sleep through the snows
Appearing as himself, the Half-Human,
It’s the Primal Artiste
(now deceased)
Man, Woman, and Child, and Wild Beast

Here’s your spoon-fed moral as we draw to a close
God only knows

In the wake

Go to someone you can trust in
Be in someone you love
Roll around if you can't go in
Roll around if you cannot stay in love

Take your heart and keep it 'cause she doesn't love you
There's no remedy for that
Find a friend and go to bed
Soak the sheets down
When you wake
Then you'll take her all around the town

Go to someone you can trust in
Be in someone you love
Roll around if you can't go in
Roll around if you cannot stay in love

Take New York and keep it 'cause it doesn't love you
There's a freedom deep in that
Wipe the ashes off your shoes
Walk across town
In the wake
In the ache of when the sun goes down

Go to someone you can trust in
Be in someone you love
Roll around if you can't go in
Roll around if you cannot stay in love

If you can't make love
Roll around

Nicotine

It's something about dry land
It drinks up my ashes
And my wishes
I wanna be the Marlboro Man
Removed from that woman
That broke my heart so

It's not that far to fall
I'm floating down easy
She can't even see me
It's not that hot at all
One inch from the burning
It makes my brain slow

Ooh Nicotine yeah
Ah nicotine
Ooh Nicotine yeah
Ah nicotine

I hear you survived your birth
Mine too was a miracle
I shouldn't be here now
To smoke it all into the earth
Like last night's lover
It feels so safe, so…

Ooh Nicotine yeah
Ah nicotine
Ooh Nicotine yeah
Ah nicotine

To sink into a chair
Just trying to be it
Not having to breathe it
To disappear in the air
Just trying to play dead
It may take years though

Ooh Nicotine yeah
Ah nicotine
Ooh Nicotine yeah
Ah nicotine

In Magenta Skies II

Back then how did mother look
When giving birth barely took
Could she see the signs
They were born in me and yet
There's a girl I'll never get
She left me behind
Although her birth was just like mine

Lay it down
Go to sleep now
Let those lights burn out
Way up high
Yellow birds fly
Hear their crazy cries
Falling in magenta skies

Always keeping wall clock time
She's a girl who never finds
A second look to spare
Once I thought she came to me
Shining from her movie screen
Still so self-aware
I knew she wasn't really there

Lay it down
Go to sleep now
Let those lights burn out
Way up high
Yellow birds fly
Hear their crazy cries
Falling in magenta skies

Blind in winter

There is only one sun
I'm blind in winter
Where does Heaven shine from