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