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Don't Hector The Safety Cat

by Damian Cowell

on Damian Cowell's Disco Machine (2015)

you might love your spontaneity.
It's your brand, your vision, your mission
you might think change means opportunity.
Cos you base jump the sheer face of life's decisions
Your world is one great big TAB.
Except no butts in the pot plants and no ones in track pants
You might be all that but

No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat
No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat
You're it and a bit there's no doubt about that but
No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat

Your neighbourhood's been gentrified.
You reckon it's lost that gritty working class factor
As you write your blog my city has died.
Based on the views of you and your friends who're all writers and actors
You might just be a little snide.
About the suburban tundra in it's alien wonder
But there's one caveat

No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat
No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat
Where you is, is where it's at but
No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat

Looks three ways before he crosses the street
Works a job he hates just to make ends meet
Doesn't stay up late cos he needs his sleep
Oh there's not so beaten path as that which leads the critic to the safety cat

Well, you think might think suburbia's for real
You might think he's a hamster on a wheel
Worker drone who cannot think or feel
But I say physician heal thyself
You too follow rules
There's nothing as conservative as cool
Your every thought, your whole world view is exactly what we expect from you, so

No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat
No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat
No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat
No, Don't Hector The Safety Cat

Walk straight across the rod, don't run