William Shakespeare's In My Cat Lyrics - Arrogant Worms

I never much believed in reincarnation 

Thought it was only people's imagination 

But now I'm forced into some reconsideration 

'Cause something's happened to my cat 

That deserves some explanation 

William Shakespeare's in my cat 

My kitty is the bard 

He used to be a playwright 

Now he's digging up the yard 

He's still a cat in most respects 

He likes to meow and purr 

But now I introduce him as the cat 

That wrote Richard the third 

I took him to see Phantom 

He said it was quite nice 

But he can't go see Miss Saigon 

Until he kills some mice 

(Until he kills some mice) 

William Shakespeare's in my cat 

It sometimes seems so deep 

The guy who wrote Twelfth Night 

Chews on my socks while I'm asleep 

I'm really quite impressed 

I own the cat who wrote MacBeth 

But if something's rotten in this state 

It's just his fishy breath 

'Cause he wrote Romeo and Juliet 

But his greatest story yet 

Is coming back as someone's pet 

And gettin' neutered by the vet 

He got his paws caught in a net 

Then he said to be or not to meeeow! 

William Shakespeare's in my cat 

He rarely ever talks 

He makes his loudest statements 

Standing in the litter box 

He sleeps on all my shelves 

And throws my books about the house 

It doesn't sound like prose 

When he bats a squeaky mouse 

Sam Beckett's plays are witty, 

Same thing for Bernard Shaw, 

Oscar Wilde is pretty, 

But none of them have paws 

(None of them have paws) 

William Shakespeare's in my cat 

He chases bits of fluff 

John Milton's in my goldfish 

But I never liked his stuff 

I'm thinking that Franz Kafka 

Really came back as a bug 

And I hope Andrew Lloyd Webber 

Will stay underneath my rug 

'Cause he wrote Romeo and Juliet 

But his greatest story yet 

Is coming back as someone's pet 

And gettin' neutered by the vet 

He got his paws caught in a net 

Then he said to be or not to meeeow! 

Take it, Trevor! 

He wrote Romeo and Juliet 

But his greatest story yet 

Is coming back as someone's pet 

And gettin' neutered by the vet 

He got his paws caught in a net 

Then he said to be or not to meeeow!