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Cats and Dogs
(Irreconcilable Differences)
Words and Music by Craig Lincoln
© 2002 by Craig Lincoln

(Verse 1)
Dogs will be dogs
They have no social grace
They sniff your crotch then lick your face
A bark and wagging tail are dialog
To a dog
A simple life -- chase and fetch
What you see is what you catch
Cold nose and dirty paws

(Verse 2)
Cats will be cats
They let you stroke their fur
They curl up in your lap and purr
Sweet contentment seems like where it’s at
To a cat
But when they’ve had enough of it
They arch their backs and hiss and spit
And scratch you with their claws

(Chorus 1)
Nature uses chemistry
To maximize diversity
By guaranteeing opposites attract
Consequently, sad to say
When you give your heart away
It rarely gets returned to you intact

(Verse 3)
Boys will be boys
If you believe in fairy tales
They’re mostly made of puppy tails
And the rest is just bravado and noise
Those are boys
Some of whom grow up to be
Men who simply cannot see
The forest for the trees

(Verse 4)
Girls will be girls
Made from sugar and from spice
Some more like fire and ice
Complicated contrasts in curls
Those are girls
The elements that they’re made from
Can leave some women they become
Torn up by the slightest breeze

(Chorus 2)
You and I thought we could fly
And gravity did not apply
To syncopated lovers such as we
The view we shared together
Never foresaw stormy weather
Let alone a hurricane at sea

(Bridge)
But love will always find a way
At least that’s what they say
(Ah, but what do they know, anyway?)

(Verse 5)
I will be me
All the bad and good about me
The “woulda, coulda, should” about me
All that great potential-
You see it’s not to be
I just go on my way
Living mostly day-to-day
A present absentee

(Verse 6)
You will be you
All the manic madness of you
The paralyzing sadness of you
Your ups and downs as manifold
As waves upon the sea
And all the things you can’t control
Weigh so heavy on your soul
For you, no guarantee

(Chorus 3)
I keep an even keel
By focusing and trying to deal
With things that I can touch and feel
and see
You are moved by darker forces
Welling up from deeper sources
Your soul music in a minor key…

(Instrumental)

(Verse 7)
And so it goes
Our fairy-tale romance
Never had a snowball’s chance
Of surviving life’s realities
And off go we
To drift apart without a clue
And nothing we could say or do
Can change our histories

(Tag)
Just like...
Tails and claws...
Nature’s laws...
CATS and DOGS...
....And you and me.

[This message has been edited by Linc (edited 08-31-2002).]

[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-01-2002).]