Big City Cat

Ah, buildings and people
Down under the skies
I walk down the street
Looking out through my eyes
I'm getting so skinny
It hurts to sit down
I'm deep in the well
I'm in the rat trap town
Where it's dirty for dirty
It's an eye for an eye

It's a tooth for a tooth
And a sigh for a sigh
And everything's edgy
Like musical chairs
And everyone's looking
But who really cares?
I am trying to get up
Trying to lighten my head
I'm walking on eggs
And I'm climbing on thread

There's motors and traffic
And racket and horns
My weary old stairway
Is wobbly and worn
There's a hissing of heaters
And banging old pipes
Screaming of women
And laughing all night
And babies are crying
And somebody's dog

He's barking so loudly
There's a man in the hall
Oh, it's some kind of lunatic
He's following me
He's down by the john
So I can't take a pee

I'm supposed to be happy
I'm here where it's at
I'm a face in the crowd
I'm a big city cat