Same Dream

[Verse 1] You wake from the same dream Where you get fat And to your shock You give birth to your old cat [Verse 2] Your neighbor’s snoring Hear the parakeet Sit by the window And stare down at the street [Verse 3] Sunrise Grey and orange streaks Thirty more weeks [Verse 4] The morning train The crush & sound It’s seventeen stops Before you get downtown [Verse 5] Your stomach’s queasy With flashes of heat But maybe once that belly shows You’ll get a seat [Verse 6] It roars and it creaks Thirty more weeks [Verse 7] You check rental listings On your lunch at work You could have a real house If you just left New York [Verse 8] A vegetable garden A white picket fence Closer to mom Reasonable rents [Verse 9] A happy place for childhood memories Thirty more weeks