Big City Cat Songtext
von Steve Forbert

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 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 old stairway
Is wobbly and worn

There's 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, 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