I watch my yellow cat
Invade my red cat in the yard
The feline war has raged for years
So I ***ume it’d be too hard

For me to drive my foot between them
I would never risk the scratch
Just to prove to one or both of them
A cat is just a cat

Again I watch my cousin Greg
Watch MTV inside his home
He makes fun of the hip hop videos
From the couch he rides alone

Snug in the cushion of his cackling
He forgets his looming doubts
He has relied on this for years
You will not yank the carpet out, no, no

These are my friends
This is who they have been for always
These are my days
This is how they stay

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I watch this dude each night, same table
Who creates and crumples up
His eyes are wide from sipping endlessly
His endless coffee cup

He feeds me quotes, that lonely goat
I watch him grazing by himself
I will not stop him when he rambles
I’m becoming one myself

Lou is bugged and shot up with drugs
He sweats this bird he hardly knows
All that he wants is to see someone he respects
Without their clothes

So like some hybrid mother slash lover
She’d soothe and heal his wounds
Kiss those dying ears so softly
That the reaper stops to swoon
Oh please

These are my friends
This is who they have been for always
These are my days
This is how they stay

These are my friends
This is who they'll remain forever
This is how we stay

****
I watch my yellow cat
I watch my yellow cat
I watch my yellow cat
I watch my yellow cat

I watch my neighbor’s son play
With his shotgun in the street
Think I’ll blaze all day
And marvel at the m*** of food I eat

It’s strange, I’m skinny when I’m standing
But I’m Buddha when I sit
And if I’m truly so enlightened
Why’d I waste your time on it

As I look back at countless crossroads
And the middle where I stay
Right up the beaten path to boredom
Where the fakest ***ks *** ****

By the faux-finest finds it’s been that way
Goddamn you, how you stay
With every s***my crummy hour
Of the s***my crummy day

These are my friends
This is who they have been for always
These are my days
This is how they stay

These are my friends
This is who they'll remain forever
This is how we stay