Lyrics

MY PURRFECT LOVER

She snuggles up beside me
Whis-purs sweet nothings in my ear
She'll even lick me and tickle me
And fill with joy my years
She's my constant lover and companion
And she's really where it's at
And that's because —

She's my cat
She's my cat
Meaw meauw meaw meaw MEAW,
meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw,
She’s my cat,
Meaw meaw meaw meaw MEAW,
meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw,
She’s my cat
She’s my cat

She’s so gentle of touch
So discrete of step
She'll tiptoe over my crowded bookcase
And not upset a single cassette (or CD, or DVD, or iPod, or iPhone charger, or glass turtle, or portrait of my grandmother, or whatever)
She descends from a sacred royalty
And with buddha's serenity of mind
She'll listen to my every confidence
And I'm sure she understands (somewhere, in that pistachio-sized brain of hers, on some level, probably subliminal, like the icecubes in your magazine pictures, sort of like that)

With grace in every movement
She's really where it's at
And I love her, because —

She's my cat
She's my cat
Meaw meaw meaw meaw MEAW,
meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw,
She’s my cat,
Meaw meaw meaw meaw MEAW,
meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw,
She’s my cat
She’s my cat

When she's sick and dying
I'll take her to the SPCA
Then go to any pet shop
And replace her right away
Of course the next one will be different
(another sort of magnificat)
but I'll always miss her, because —

She's my one special cat
She's my cat
Meaw meaw meaw meaw MEAW,
meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw,
She’s my cat,
Meaw meaw meaw meaw MEAW,
meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw meaw,
She’s my cat
She’s my cat
Ooooooow (like dog)
hiss (like cat)

meaw

Brian Campbell: music, lyrics, lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Martin Bennett: recording engineering, arrangements, sampled instruments
Recorded at Studio Loco, Montreal
copyright registration SOCAN 2025