Music & Lyrics: M.L. Hammond

this is a song for you
though perhaps some others will hear
this is a song for you
when you can’t be near

now I don’t want to play the poet
or the clever clown
just want to take hold of these feelings
and pin them down

’cause maybe it’s just a mirage that I’m seeing
some maverick gleam
a trick of the way the light falls in a dream

oh I’ve never seen eyes like yours
brown in a circle of blue
like the sky ’round the earth
when the sun comes shining through

and when you turn those eyes to me
well I hardly know what to do
I see the sky ’round the earth
I see me in a circle of you

but maybe it’s just a mirage that I’m seeing
some maverick gleam
a trick of the way the light falls in a dream

well you know that I’m hard to live with
sometimes I’m downright mean
but you make me feel I could love you
love you like you’ve never seen

and I thought it was just a mirage, oh
some maverick gleam
a trick of the way the light falls in a dream

but I think finally this time
I can trust the view
see how the light holds steady
when it’s coming from you

so this is a song for you
though perhaps some others will hear
this is a song for you
when you can’t be near

Music: Doug Bowes,   Lyrics: M.L. Hammond

there’s a cat on the steps
and I sure could use a lesson from her
she got sly yellow eyes
she got three-coloured crazy-quilt fur
she slinks and creeps, she leaps and she teases
but whatever she does, she does just as she pleases
ooh she’s the calico cat

when she’s feeling lazy,
she just stretches out in the sun
oh but when she’s feeling crazy
she got all the local dogs on the run
she’s lean and mean, she’s a backyard queen
and she looks out for number one
and nobody can break her heart

on those hot summer nights
all the toms come ’round to woo her
but she turns up her nose
’cause they don’t mean a damn thing to her
well she’ll pick them over when she’s in the mood
but when she’s not, look out,
she ain’t afraid to be rude
ooh she’s the calico cat

when she’s feeling lazy… etc.