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Rat Palace
03:02
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Late nights in the wall, looking to be free.
We just want to live our lives and they won’t let us be
In this short time all our friends are dead,
and we must break the walls, we must break the walls
In the rat palace, I will be the king, you will be the queen.
Outside of these walls inside shelter’s ring.
Can we train them all to do our laundry?
In the rat palace, in the rat palace.
This ain’t the last time,
there’s no parade,
they’ll win like they always do,
and keep us afraid.
In the rat palace, I will be the king, you will be the queen.
Outside of these walls inside shelter’s ring.
Can we train them all to do our laundry?
In the rat palace, in the rat palace.
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You moved here, to make it work.
They bought you out.
You're too poor.
You're too poor.
To live here now.
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So Tired
02:25
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I need to break your neck
Why does it have to flex?
Heaving on the grass
Wheezing like an ass.
I go back inside,
Having to decide,
Hammer or a boot?
No bloodless coup.
Go on run away,
You’ll be dead someday
I’m gonna break your neck
I need to break your neck
So tired of waking up
So tired of being stuck
So tired of hearing screams
So tired of feeling mean.
I’m gonna break your back.
I’m gonna hear it snap.
Why won’t you die!?
Why won’t you die!?
Out to the concrete steps,
There you meet you death.
I hear the trap go snap,
I’m gonna break your back.
So tired of waking up
So tired of being stuck
So tired of hearing screams
So tired of feeling mean.
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Escape from Rat Palace
02:32
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Hope you don’t sleep tonight.
Be glad I’m not the one knocking.
She can handle it better.
I’m about toss dead bodies,
Into your dreamscape tonight
Don’t tell me two more weeks.
You gotta be kidding me!
There’s no way we’re gonna pay,
To escape the rat palace.
These sorry excuses,
Don’t hold water anymore.
I wanna bleed you dry.
The kings are dying in the wall,
Effort too late and too small.
Which end of the rope are we on?
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Keep it Light
03:21
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The dog won’t stop,
Barking at the wall.
That’s not Santa Claus coming out of the chimney.
Snap a trap take a photo and put it in frame
Send it down the line, if they don’t hear you this time.
Keep it light!
Wait until Our problems, remain your problems.
New hands on old mistakes.
Just wait, they’re going to be great.
Dead nights alive,
Should have believed the wife
Seller’s problems, and buyer’s blues,
And Moneyed men, with expensive athletic shoes
New Hands on old mistakes
The new guys will be great…
Keep it light.
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