its about how he is watching his cats and he looks down and thinks how futile their quarrel is that he can just drive his foot between them but he wont even risk a scratch on something so unimportant. then he thinks about it and says "then again...." look at my cousin greg whose life is just as futile and unimportant as those cats and he continues to look and sees his neighbor and lou and his neighbor's son and finally, himself. He sees how in the big scheme of things everyone is just as unimportant as his cats fight and classifies himself with them, hence the "friends" remark. He ends the song on a depressed note, looking back on his life and remarking how he is still in the middle of the crossroads, on the beaten path to boredom.
its about how he is watching his cats and he looks down and thinks how futile their quarrel is that he can just drive his foot between them but he wont even risk a scratch on something so unimportant. then he thinks about it and says "then again...." look at my cousin greg whose life is just as futile and unimportant as those cats and he continues to look and sees his neighbor and lou and his neighbor's son and finally, himself. He sees how in the big scheme of things everyone is just as unimportant as his cats fight and classifies himself with them, hence the "friends" remark. He ends the song on a depressed note, looking back on his life and remarking how he is still in the middle of the crossroads, on the beaten path to boredom.