Plea from a Cat Named Virtute

Why don't you ever wanna play? I'm tired of this piece of string You sleep as much as I do now And you don't eat much of anything I don't know who you're talking to I made a search through every room But all I found was dust that moved In shadows of the afternoon And listen About those bitter songs you sing They're not helping anything They won't make you strong So we should open up the house Invite the tabby two doors down You could ask your sister if She doesn't bring her basset hound Ask the things you shouldn't miss Tape hiss and the modern man Cold war and card catalogs To come join us if they can For girly drinks and parlor games We'll pass around the easy lie Of absolutely no regrets And later maybe you could try To let your losses dangle off The sharp edge of a century We'll talk about the weather Or how the weather use to be And I'll cater With all the birds that I can kill Let their tiny feathers fill Disappointment I'll lie down And lick the sorrow from your skin Scratch the terror and begin To believe you're strong All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV Frankly that thing doesn't really interest me I swear I'm going to bite you hard and taste your tinny blood If you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating since the day you brought me home I know you're strong