Big City Cat (Live)

Big City Cat - Steve Forbert

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

Well I'm tryna get up tryna laugh in my head

I'm walking on eggs and I'm climbing on thread

There's motors and traffic and racket and horns

My weary ol' stairway is wobbly and worn

There a hissing of heaters and banging ol' pipes

Screaming of women and laughing all night

There's babies a crying and somebody's dog

He's barking so loudly there's a man in the hall

Hell it's some kinda lunatic following me

He's down by the john so I can't take a pee

I'm s'posed to be happy I'm here where it's at

I'm a face in the crowd I'm a big city cat