Verse 1 You can hear a cat tell the truth No courtroom, no alibi No polished smile, no practiced cool No dead language in the eye Just a little engine in the chest Saying yes, yes, yes, I’m here Saying this is good, this is safe Come closer, I feel no fear Pre-Chorus But people learn the harder art How to grin and disappear How to bury all the living parts And call it strength sincere Chorus If only humans purred You’d know who was really home You’d know when joy had touched the nerve Instead of standing there alone If only humans purred We couldn’t hide when we were glad No more disguising light as dust No more pretending good is bad Verse 2 We got fluent in the mask In the shrug, the joke, the dodge In the coolness of withheld love In the lock behind the jaw Somewhere under all that steel There’s a child with a singing spine Still shaking at a gentle hand Still starving to be known in time Pre-Chorus And all this pride is such a waste All this silence dressed as grace When happiness is in the room Why make it hide its face? Chorus If only humans purred You’d know who was really home You’d know when joy had touched the nerve Instead of standing there alone If only humans purred We couldn’t hide when we were glad No more disguising light as dust No more pretending good is bad Bridge Imagine it… a low warm sound No lie could keep it down No lover guessing, no friend unsure No heart saying less than it endured The whole world humming when it healed The whole body making truth revealed No more “I’m fine” through gritted teeth When the soul is blooming underneath Breakdown A motor in the ribs A witness in the throat A holy little tremor Saying don’t let this be smoke Final Chorus If only humans purred The happy ones would glow aloud The shy would still be heard somehow The hidden would not need a shroud If only humans purred We’d know what love had really stirred No more hiding being alive Behind the safety of our words Outro So until then, come close Listen past the mouth, past the blur Some people don’t have the courage to say joy They only know how to whisper it in other ways If only humans purred… If only humans purred…
