My world is spinning around in my head
Feel like a freak, feeling red
I wear a constant snarl on my face
Taught to me by my dog
To keep the cats away

This was something so hard to start
As you point that gun at my heart
Walking barefoot with my eyes in the sand
Reaching blindly
Finding your hand
I gotta keep the cats away

Where are you right at this moment
You could be right here with me
Instead of looking out over the sea
Where the birds are flying south
I gotta keep the cats away

In a room where the clocks are all wrong
You are the one and I am the other
I want what's over to be over there
Solid reflections in the mirror
I gotta keep the cats away

Everything has gone from the past
Chains of remembrance left at last
I can't stand you trying to fill my mind
With anger and expectation left far behind
I gotta keep the cats away

One thousand days but only three hundred nights
Where's the justice in that
When it's cold you can always get warmer
But when it's hot, it's hot
Frankies reading about moving in LA
He's got no furniture so that's ok
Everybody's pushing hard to board this train
Surrounded by people, an island insane
I gotta keep the cats away

My world is stopping around in my head
Feel like a freak, feeling red
I wear a constant snarl on my face
Taught to me by my dog
To keep the cats away, the cat's away