THE CAT FROM EVERITT ROAD

I saw you in a back lane, an alley sorta girl

I watched as you watched me back, and let your tail unfurl

The cutest thing, too sweet to be a streetwise kinda chick

Although you’d have to be to grow up quick

You knew at once that I was not a cruel kinda guy

You came to me and leaned your head and flopped against my thigh

You looked into my complex with kaleidoscopic eyes

The kind of look that makes me sigh….

Baby you know that I can’t take you back

Give you a home and keep you off the tracks

You know I want to, but this is all we have

You and me now, and I’m never coming back

I had someone just like you, the sweetest little thing

Had a meow that sounded like a baby learned to sing

Rolling on her back for belly rubs to say hello

I wasn’t ready when she had to go

I’ve got a hole shaped just like her, somewhere in my gut

You would fit too close to that, the scars would open up

It’s not that we don’t have it, your head against my skin

I just don’t dare…..to let you in

Baby you know that I can’t take you back

Give you a home and keep you off the tracks

You know I want to, but this is all we have

You and me now, and I’m never coming back

There’s a place for softness

I found it on this street

But maybe I can’t have it with each kitty that I meet

Maybe it’s just better to leave pretty cats alone

And you’ll just be

The cat from Everitt Road

I met you in the backstage, an angel on her own

The trusting kind who’s ready to make any place her home

Even if it’s with someone with scars too deep to see

Even if that someone is me

Baby you know that I can’t take you back

Give you a home and keep you off the tracks

You know I want to, but this is all we have

You and me now, and I’m never coming back

You and me now

You and me now

You and me now, and I’m never coming back