Life of a Cat

I wish I was a man of simple means
Of nights spent in, of cold baked beans
The custard skin of boyish dreams
Oh for the life of a cat

I wish I was a man of basic needs
Of soft no thanks, polite yes please
Of just one mood and just two speeds
The slow and the stopped of a cat

We got CCTV across the sky
Satellites above
We got wandering hands and roving eye
Rut we cannot find real love

We got C.I.A. and F.B.I.
MI5 and more
Rut still we cannot find the key
To open easiest door
To open easiest door

I wish I was a man of simple hugs
Of open fires and knee deep rugs
Of chasing flies and catching bugs
Oh for the life of a cat

I wish I was the sort of man instead
Who had it in his tiny head
The joy of walks or baking bread
Oh for a life like that

We got CCTV across the sky
Satellites above
We got wandering hands and roving eye
Rut we cannot find real love

We got C.I.A. and F.B.I.
MI5 and more
Rut still we cannot find the key
To open easiest door
To open easiest door

When did life get so complicated
18? 21?
When did we wake up to find
The simple life had gone

Was it school or place of work that took
Simplicity by the throat
And shook it 'til the innocence dropped
Like coins from a dead man's coat

How I wish for country walk
The song and dance of child talk
The spider's web, the name in chalk
Oh for a day like that