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Cat With A Spider

from Cat With A Spider by Guy Johnson

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This is a country song. A three chord trick. It's about a relationship that is on it's last legs. Seeing a cat torture a spider until eventually gives up the ghost was a good image in my mind of how destructive a relationship can get when all the love has evaporated away.

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THAT NIGHT YOU WALKED FROM THAT CROWDED BAR
WHERE WE WERE SITTING
YOU HAD A TEAR IN YOUR YES
YOU DROVE TO SOME COLD DESERTED PLACE
TO SEEK SOME KIND OF REFUGE FROM THE NIGHT

THAT NIGHT I FEL LIKE A CAT WITH A SPIDER
SLOWLY WATCHING YOUR LOVE FOR ME DIE
THAT NIGHT WE CAME TO THE END OF A CAHPTER
I WANT TO GO HOME NOW
WANT TO GO HOME NOW

AND EARLY MORNING I LIE AWAKE
YOU’RE PROBABLY GETTING READY
FOR YOUR DAY AT WORK
SOMEHOW I KNOW THAT YOU’LL NOT FORGET
I COULD SAY I NEVER MEANT A WORD OF IT

THAT NIGHT I FEL LIKE A CAT WITH A SPIDER
SLOWLY WATCHING YOUR LOVE FOR ME DIE
THAT NIGHT WE CAME TO THE END OF A CAHPTER
I WANT TO GO HOME NOW
WANT TO GO HOME NOW

I WAS WATCHING WITH A COLDNESS IN MY HEART
I NEVER KNEW THAT THE THAW WOULD TEAR ME APART

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from Cat With A Spider, released October 21, 2011
Guy; piano, strings and vocals
James Ramsey; Drums and guitars

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