The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46531   Message #697739
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
24-Apr-02 - 04:48 PM
Thread Name: Song Challenge: Get Well, Aine!
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE: Get Well, Áine!
Here's a getting well song I wrote today for a cat called Tilly. I thought it might fit in here. (I haven't quite worked it out as a song yet - I have a feeling it'd like a James Taylor style approach, and that's not my normal approach to songmaking.)

Well, here you are once more,
And here we are together.
We thought you'd gone for ever,
And we didn't like the thought.
You've never been away before,
You've not been on your own.
And we couldn't help but wonder,
Would we ever bring you home
But, here you are once more,
And here we are together.
We thought you'd gone for ever,
It's so good to have you home.

When first you came to stay
You weren't the least excited
We weren't too sure you liked it,
But you liked it in your way.
You always were a bit reserved,
Your feelings you would hide
You didn't care to purr out loud
But you always purred inside.
And as the time went by
We settled down together
As if you'd been here for ever
As the years went sliding by.

You'd lie there in the dark
Rest your head upon my shoulder,
But we all of us grow older,
Though you never seemed to change.
But change must come to all of us,
There's nowhere we can hide.
And we know some day it's coming,
The thought can't be denied.
And I took you to a stranger,
And I'd no way of explaining.
And I left you there, complaining -
And I came on back alone.

But, here you are once more,
And here we are together.
We thought you'd gone for ever,
And we didn't like the thought.
You'd never been away before,
You'd not been on your own.
And we couldn't help but wonder,
Would we ever bring you home
But, here you are once more,
And here we are together.
We thought you'd gone for ever,
It's so good to have you home.