Plea From A Cat Named Virtute

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[Verse 1]
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Why don't you ever wanna play?
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I'm tired of this piece of string
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You sleep as much as I do now,
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and you don't eat much of anything

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I don't know who you're talking to
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I made a search through every room
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but all I found was dust that moved
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with shadows of the afternoon

[Chorus]
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And listen, about those bitter songs you sing
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they're not helping anything
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they won't make you strong

[Verse 2]
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So we should open up the house
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invite the tabby two doors down
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You could ask your sister if
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she doesn't bring her basset hound

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Ask the things you shouldn't miss
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tape hiss and the modern man
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cold war and card catalogues
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to come join us if they can

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For girly drinks and parlor games
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we'll pass around the easy lie
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of absolutely no regrets
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and later maybe you could try

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To let your losses dangle off
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the sharp edge of a century
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We'll talk about the weather
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or how the weather use to be


[Chorus 2]
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And I'll cater, with all the birds that I can kill
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let their tiny feathers fill disappointment
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Lie down, and lick the sorrow from your skin
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Scratch the terror and begin to believe you're strong


[Final verse]
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All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV
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frankly that thing doesn't really interest me
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I swear I'm going to bite you hard and taste your tinny blood
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if you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating
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since the day you brought me home
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I know you're strong.