Big City Cat

(albüm: Alive On Arrival - 1978)

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?

Well, I'm try'na get up, try'na 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

Oh... it's some kinda lunatic following me
He's down by the john so I can't take a pee
I'm 'sposed to be happy, I'm here where it's at
I'm a face in the crowd; I'm a big city cat