[00:01.846]When a girl dies with her need for affection
[00:05.004]Unmet, she comes back as a cat
[00:09.681]A wise man once told me that reincarnation
[00:13.596]Is common in cases like that
[00:19.685]Like Sei Shonagon I was once a good lady
[00:23.111]And you were my lover back when
[00:27.658]Your Samurai relatives ruled Kamakura
[00:31.577]I wish you'd had time for me then
[00:39.467]You were too busy hunting or watching the wrestling
[00:43.576]Learning to fence and to ride
[00:47.546]You left me with servants who made me look beautiful
[00:51.684]Just in case you changed your mind
[00:55.525]So don't be surprised, love, if one rainy evening
[00:59.533]A meowing awakens you late
[01:03.512]And a cat that's a ghost that can visit the past
[01:07.449]Comes pushing it's nose through your gate
[01:15.888]Don't be afraid of a cat from the future
[01:19.661]Somebody built a machine
[01:23.483]Allowing the cat to go centuries back
[01:26.934]Through an electronic catflap in time
[01:31.689]Don't be afraid if I seem supernatural
[01:35.582]One of us died long ago
[01:39.588]I don't mean to scare you, I don't need to stay
[01:43.166]I just wanted to tell you hello I just wanted to tell you hello
[02:05.577]In the future the mice are wiped out by a virus
[02:09.692]Pollution obscures the full moon
[02:13.548]Human beings live in cages they've built in the sky
[02:17.529]The tea rooms and temples are gone
[02:25.737]Cats are just guinea pigs, people are astronauts
[02:29.715]Love is as cold as the snow
[02:33.678]People shoot moon rockets into the past
[02:37.492]It's the last unspoiled place left to go
[02:41.614]Your world has perished, but sometimes I miss you
[02:45.537]And come slinking back to the past
[02:49.767]In search of affection the future can't give me
[02:53.641]Because it's too cold and too fast